You may have missed the point too. Market forces and consumer preferences seem to show that not many people want EVs, no matter where they come from. Battery fires, paucity of charging stations across the country, upkeep costs, battery replacement costs, depreciation just as you drive off the lot, and a generational love of the internal combustion engine is probably the reason for banning Chinese knockoffs
Those Americans who want EVs can buy American made EVs, or Korean or Japanese. There is no limit to the competition among EV makers, but loading our market with Chinese EVs at cheap prices.... meh, I wouldn't want one anywhere near my house.
Now the commies can't stop making them. Factories can't shut down, that would look bad. Chy-nah is awash in electric cars with zero domestic market to buy them. It's all going to collapse.
When I think of China, I don't think about superior technology. When I think of EVs, I think about coal fired power generators and lack of support for charging my nerd car.
If you drive a car that was built after probably 2010 in my opinion, you're choosing to be monitored... And drive overpriced junk.
Long live the piston engine. Or at least until the technology that we already have is released.
I say let's allow the imported cars. Tax the crap out of them and if there's something good being done with the engineering/build/quality of these imports, let the American manufacturers compete.
Protecting the US car market is the primary reason. But it is also a safety issue. Those cars like to burst into flames. They don’t want to park next to another one.
European food, bullet trains everywhere but the US, speakers and screens from Japanese, pistols from Austria and Brazil, nearly all manufacturing handled by any country but the U.S. --- the narrative of our decline is practically founded on the decline of our products. We know that we can't make nearly anything at an economically viable price anymore. Ergo, at any given price point, US products are inferior, because the entire manufacturing infrastructure was gutted for decades.
Sure, surveillance tech is a real issue, and if surveillance is unavoidable, I'd prefer the data to be in Detroit instead of Guangzhou. But the incursion of surveillance is a separate issue from manufacturing. It only comes up because it's easier to talk about because we are embarrassed by the fact that previous administrations corrupted capitalism and gave away our industrial patrimony.
Trump is rebuilding our entire economy, of which cars are just one component, and electric cars a smaller subsector. The rebuilding involves walling off the economy for a time, with specific protections in many vulnerable sectors.
Just like planting new seeds in an actual garden or farm, they need protection for a while, while they grow. We've been deliberately left to fallow for decades. Our economy will rebound. And if we want electric cars, we'll make them comfy and fancy for both petite and XL Americans, the way we like them.
Could be. It's amazing how cheap shit is when you have slave labor.
I still believe in American Superiority.
You may have missed the point too. Market forces and consumer preferences seem to show that not many people want EVs, no matter where they come from. Battery fires, paucity of charging stations across the country, upkeep costs, battery replacement costs, depreciation just as you drive off the lot, and a generational love of the internal combustion engine is probably the reason for banning Chinese knockoffs
Those Americans who want EVs can buy American made EVs, or Korean or Japanese. There is no limit to the competition among EV makers, but loading our market with Chinese EVs at cheap prices.... meh, I wouldn't want one anywhere near my house.
Now the commies can't stop making them. Factories can't shut down, that would look bad. Chy-nah is awash in electric cars with zero domestic market to buy them. It's all going to collapse.
When I think of China, I don't think about superior technology. When I think of EVs, I think about coal fired power generators and lack of support for charging my nerd car.
If you drive a car that was built after probably 2010 in my opinion, you're choosing to be monitored... And drive overpriced junk.
Long live the piston engine. Or at least until the technology that we already have is released.
I say let's allow the imported cars. Tax the crap out of them and if there's something good being done with the engineering/build/quality of these imports, let the American manufacturers compete.
Protecting the US car market is the primary reason. But it is also a safety issue. Those cars like to burst into flames. They don’t want to park next to another one.
You think we believe that? You're wrong.
European food, bullet trains everywhere but the US, speakers and screens from Japanese, pistols from Austria and Brazil, nearly all manufacturing handled by any country but the U.S. --- the narrative of our decline is practically founded on the decline of our products. We know that we can't make nearly anything at an economically viable price anymore. Ergo, at any given price point, US products are inferior, because the entire manufacturing infrastructure was gutted for decades.
Sure, surveillance tech is a real issue, and if surveillance is unavoidable, I'd prefer the data to be in Detroit instead of Guangzhou. But the incursion of surveillance is a separate issue from manufacturing. It only comes up because it's easier to talk about because we are embarrassed by the fact that previous administrations corrupted capitalism and gave away our industrial patrimony.
Trump is rebuilding our entire economy, of which cars are just one component, and electric cars a smaller subsector. The rebuilding involves walling off the economy for a time, with specific protections in many vulnerable sectors.
Just like planting new seeds in an actual garden or farm, they need protection for a while, while they grow. We've been deliberately left to fallow for decades. Our economy will rebound. And if we want electric cars, we'll make them comfy and fancy for both petite and XL Americans, the way we like them.