Why is Biden blocking the cheapest, most popular EVs in the world?
Why is Biden blocking the cheapest, most popular EVs in the world?
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Why is Biden blocking the cheapest, most popular EVs in the world?
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Why wouldn't he? BYD and other cheap BEVs from China directly threaten American jobs, and not the poorly paying kinds either. I see no rational reason why an American president wouldn't do everything in his power to protect American interests.
And for the environment I don't really think BEVs in the shape of cars is the solution. Scooters and small motorcycles outnumber cars by far and is growing faster as well, while each individual vehicle pollute far less the sheer volume is a problem and the air quality problem they contribute to is massive. Those and trucks I feel are the important vehicles to focus on, for the environment. But it's far easier of course to market and sell cars to high income individuals, in areas with the infrastructure necessary to support electric cars.
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Then there's the whole not recycling old Ecar components, especially batteries, problem. Transportation going electric will only be environmentally sound if the related recycling industries are brought to a profitable scale...
Lovely catch22 from good ol capitalism
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We get it. You don't like Biden
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
And it’s just one of many BYD electric cars on offer, from the compact e2/e3 hatchback and sedan (think a Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla) to the full-size, luxe Han EV, a more expensive option nonetheless selling for under $33,000 in China (it costs more than double that in Europe).
“There’s almost an across-the-board apprehension about Chinese EVs, even though they would make an important contribution to [lower] CO2 emissions,” Gary Clyde Hufbauer, a veteran trade expert at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, says.
They took the “opposite of the Tesla approach”: starting not with luxury vehicles but ultra-cheap cars fit for taxi fleets and not much else, and constantly improving their early inexpensive prototypes.
Bloomberg reported earlier this month that the Biden administration is formulating rules that would limit US sales of Chinese-made parts, even if they’re in vehicles ultimately assembled in the US or Mexico.
As Frank Foer detailed in his book The Last Politician, this faction was brought into the Biden coalition partly through his now-National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.
During the Trump years, Sullivan forged an alliance with the trade-skeptics and “broke bread with Elizabeth Warren disciples, labor union officials, and intellectuals from left-leaning think tanks.” Sullivan is also, notably, a major China hawk — Foer describes him as agreeing with Donald Trump that China is “eating our lunch” — leading to a hostility to trade with the country that meshed easily with that of trade skeptics who have for decades opposed exposing US manufacturing workers to foreign competition.
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Do we know these weren’t made with slavery?
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Because free market it's good while it's your free market and not someone else's?
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Probably because Chinese cars are state subsidized.
Full of spyware and built cheap
The built cheap is the important bit. I think Firefox showed that all car.conpanoes are loaded with spyware. So, if the car is cool cheap and the spyware is no worse..,
I'm happy for China to pay for my car.
I know long term they want to kill off other car manufacturers. But so does Tesla, and gm, and every other manufacturer. If they ever get to that size, we could consider import taxes that equakise the market. At the moment, we need competition and scale.
We need FAIR competition. Subsidized products are not fair competition.