Senate Banking Committee chair called Chinese EVs an “existential threat” to the US motor industry.
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US claims to love their capitalism fueled open market. Yet they feel the need to subsidize them anyway and then cry that others are outcompeting them. Pathetic.
I mean I don’t fully disagree with you but we have been doing tariffs on cars for like a zillion years. Having grown up in the backyard of the big 3 and had both my great grandfather and grandfather work for them. They have provided their works a decent salary and benefits I will say it’s been worse and worse but that’s America business. You just can’t find a good pension job these days.
These Chinese companies are working off slave labor and really shitty working conditions. Never heard of people jumping off a Jeep building like Foxconn. Let’s just put a net around the building #FoxconnNets
The US auto market is being held hostage by the same five companies that want to force you to buy different variations of the same fuckhuge $34,999 (plus dealer tip) AWD, CVT-powered plasticmobile crossover thats loaded with features you never asked for. Fuck them, if domestic cars are so good, what are they afraid of?
Don’t forget how they’ve spent the last century lobbying against public transport infrastructure and walkable cities, requiring most people to own a car if they want the same mobility people across Europe and South East Asia have access to (at 2-5x the cost).
True. The UAW got a huge PR boost this year, but don’t forget that those fucks want us in massive, overpriced cars that we don’t need just as much as the Big Three.
I see this as less of a China good / China bad thing and more of a regulatory capture issue. The problem is not really that China makes cars that much better because they are doing something magic.
The problem is that:
- due to pressure from the “burn the planet” industry lobbies, cheap compact electric cars are not made in the US
- there is a high demand for cars in the US, and also high demand apparently for cheap, clean, small cars
- China is willing to serve and capture that demand by massively subsidizing their cars and dumping them across the world, in an effort to capture international markets and create dependencies that can be then used for political gain
I expect the US government to again try every possible thing but solve the underlying issue, which is that the market is being manipulated from the supply side to make for ever bigger cars burning ever more fossil fuel. If Tesla et. al. would actually get around to releasing that “$25k car”, this would be less of an issue. If the US - and I mean the majority of the population who live in metropolises and sit in traffic jams, not the people farming in the prairies - wasn’t so car-dependent that you absolutely need a car to exist, this wouldn’t be an issue.
The US car lobby is sucking its citizens dry, and China is taking advantage of the induced but unmet demand.
are current Chinese EV’s compatible with American vehicle safety standards?
America’s safety standards are a fucking joke. They haven’t been updated for decades. And yes, China vehicles surpasses weak America’s standards.
