Why is Biden blocking the cheapest, most popular EVs in the world?
Why is Biden blocking the cheapest, most popular EVs in the world?
Biden needs to decide if he likes the climate more than he hates China.
Aside from the fears about their government and car software (whatever side you're on, you're probably not being convinced otherwise), Biden wants to encourage domestic production. Hard to do that when China is undercutting the costs and prices here. Just look at the collapse of the US steel industry to see similar situations.
Encourage domestic production
As if the domestic makers aren't 90% Chinese parts anyway.
It's because the domestic makers know that people in America want better cars but want to keep their profit margins. So they collude with one-another to make it so that every automaker makes a fuckhuge AWD, CVT, $29,999 starting MSRP (plus dealer tip) crossover POS so that there's no competition and the only choice is what color logo you want on the grille of your
planetkillerfreedom machine.These corporate socialists are terrified of an actually free economy because they know how much we hate their product
As if the domestic makers aren't 90% Chinese parts anyway.
Hence the steel production collapse I mentioned.
There's something to be said about subsidizing corporate profits, but there is a limit to how much they can compete with production from places like China that have notoriously cheap production. Especially if we also take wage issues in the US into consideration. It's not cheap to pay affordable wages.
As for the type of cars built domestically, I can only imagine that local ev competition would help crib the "planet killers". Foreign cars are hardly going to change that.
every automaker makes a fuckhuge AWD, CVT, $29,999 starting MSRP (plus dealer tip) crossover POS
That's not true. They also make fuckhuge SUVs and trucks, but those start at $50k plus dealer markup.
Domestic producers seem to be actively hostile to this type of car (small, cheap) no matter who produces it. This isn't Biden vs China, it's domestic car companies vs their own customers and Biden is just another member of their team.
Domestic car makers are making the same mistake now that they did in the 1970s. They're making giant, wasteful cars and as soon as they start competing with foreign carmakers they'll have to scramble to make small cars, make terrible ones, and then we'll have to bail them out again.
We need control over what all cars transmit and receive, not just Chinese ones.
I'm all for Chinese EVs, they are the only ones affordable enough for me to try one without going into major debt.