Drewfro66 ,
@Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Blocking imports of Chinese EVs while American manufacturers keep their EVs as luxury products and prioritize CE vehicles is not only blatant protectionism, but another way to kill the planet for the sole purpose of enriching a small minority of very wealthy people.

PanArab ,

So much for free markets. Everything the US was trying to push onto others it is now fighting itself. I love the hypocrisy.

ShimmeringKoi ,
@ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net avatar

Nooo you can't make affordable cars for people, we need our shitty noncompetitive prestige brands to make the money

MrPhibb ,
@MrPhibb@reddthat.com avatar

Chuckles, "Yep, only American manufacturers should be allowed to cheaply build cars in Mexico and export them to the US."

ShepherdPie ,

The issue is they're wanting to sell $30,000 cars for $15,000 (with the rest paid for by the Chinese government) which sounds great as a consumer until all the other manufacturers exit the market due to the impossibility of competing with those subsidies. Once they eliminate the competition, they'll start selling these $30,000 cars for $50,000+ because "fuck you who else are you going to buy from?" That's not to say the current crop of manufacturers aren't fucking us over too but this isn't how you eliminate that problem. You're just trading one bully who steals your lunch money for another.

filister ,

Oh come on. The US has super conservative and protectionist policies.

The fact is that both CATL and BYD have the upper edge in battery technology. And that a lot of Chinese car manufacturers have very good and competitive products.

European car brands are really struggling to transition to the future and still can't figure out their software and technology. They are run by old guys who are still trying to save the ICEs as this technology is a gatekeeper of their businesses.

CascadeOfLight ,

Obviously not true

But if it was: skill issue, communists stay winning, some-controversy better at capitalism than capitalists

Dolores ,
@Dolores@hexbear.net avatar

NAFTA?? who's she?

PolandIsAStateOfMind ,
@PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml avatar

It's kerosene in Polish.

Dolores ,
@Dolores@hexbear.net avatar

huh theres another petrol derivative called naphtha in english lol, shared etymology for related substances

GissaMittJobb ,

I hardly know her!

Tak ,
@Tak@lemmy.ml avatar

I thought corporate industry liked the free market and no regulation.

cooljacob204 ,

They have no problem abusing the same "loophole" for their plants in Europe and Asia.

TheLepidopterists ,
@TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net avatar

Well American civilization has been deliberately constructed to require cars for survival outside a number of cities you can count on one hand and cars from US manufacturers are getting so expensive that even used cars are becoming unaffordable to large and growing segments of the population, so I don't know that I care that Ford's bottom line will be impacted.

NataliePortland ,
@NataliePortland@lemmy.ca avatar

American EV manufacturers are consistently cutting their production citing waning demand. This is obviously false since the US is blocking cheap imports, car makers have everything to gain by limiting supply and keeping prices high.

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