• Habahnow@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      It does sadly. On the flip side, China seems to be trying to capture car manufacturing markets by subsidizing their producers. This would probably be a bad thing in the future if allowed. Hopefully the US government does more work on making it easier to purchase electric cars in the US(specifically the price) while also reducing the need for driving.

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          6 months ago

          Also no US auto-manufacturer is going all in on EVs

          Tesla? Rivian? Lucid? Faraday? Fisker?

          To be clear, yes, of course I understand that those are all luxury brands, but that doesn’t make your statement any less false.

          No, the major auto manufacturers aren’t going all-in on EVs, but that are all getting deeper every year. There’s no reason to expect that progress to slow down, as they’re all quite entrenched in the technology at this point.

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        6 months ago

        What exactly is wrong with a country subsidizing green energy products? Not only that, but making them available cheaply to other countries?

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          6 months ago

          They’re oversaturating the market with low-quality products. This can be a significant problem when there are safety implications.

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            6 months ago

            Why can’t they just certify cars based on safety and ban unsafe ones instead of blanket ban the entire segment of them. It certainly helps the adoption of EV among masses.

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            6 months ago

            I’m sorry but this argument doesn’t make sense. Don’t you have safety rules in the US? If the Chinese cars aren’t safe to drive nobody should be authorized to drive them in the first place. If they are safe, no need for tariffs then.

            This decision has absolutely nothing to do with alleged poor manufacturing quality. It’s protectionism, pure and simple.