While I’m sure there are financial motives behind this that are backed by the US car industry, it also makes sense if you anticipate a war with China sometime in the future. You don’t really want a large proportion of your population driving cars manufactured by the enemy that can be switched off remotely.
That's not the worry. The worry is that China is accumulating all of this industrial capacity (like the US pre-WW2) and that car factories really aren't that different from APC/tank factories.
For an administration so desperate to cut back on global emissions, keeping cheap and apparently reliable foreign electric vehicles out of US market seems so backwards.
It's not going to work. It's like when they tried to protect the US market from Japanese cars in the 70s and 80s. Look at the roads now, two of the big three (well, now four) american car manufacturers have gone bankrupt more than once. The one that hasn't only makes trucks and one flagship sportscar now. US EVs can't compete with Chinese made ones, it's just that simple.
It might not work eh? Might it though? I hate this kind of weasel headline almost as much as the constant "slamming". Just say what you're going to say.
