Why is Biden blocking the cheapest, most popular EVs in the world?

So reasons include: politics (Lots of swing voters work in the auto manufacturing industry that would get pissed with an influx of chinese cars), national security (worries of the type of information Chinese cars would send back home), and lastly industry protectionism.

As much as this sucks, I kind of agree. We really don't want to rely on China until they prove to reliably not want to screw us. If this was Taiwan, Mexico, any country from the EU, etc. I would definitely want their cheap EVs to hit our market and bloody up the american manufacturers.

Prove me wrong that this has nothing to do with the fact that China became the world's biggest auto exporter last year and this is a desperate way for the US to try to protect their own auto industry.

Free market, my bottom.

I made it too late to this thread and now all the top comments are corporate shill posts for the big 3 American OEMs who already outsourced the hell out of their production lines meaning none of their points about protection or votes has been valid for at least 15 years.

Even if Mexico magically invented their own cheap EV, you better bet the USA will have that blocked or at the very least smacked with a huge tariff for no reason beyond protecting some megacorp profits.

They already lobbied for all these stupid rules against JDM back when Japan proved it could make superior cars for cheap. Then, it took them decades to enter the US market locally by building factories and whatnot.

Biden is blocking because China bad and muh lobbyist profits, not because there's an actual issue of safety or security.

I think the new Chinese made Volvo is one of the more interesting cars coming out this year. It’s $35k… AFTER the 27.5% tariff on Chinese made cars. Meaning, Volvo is actually selling this for $27k. The car is super minimal inside, but manufacturing in China is clearly allowing them to reduce costs a shit load.

US auto manufacturing would be so screwed if these things could be sold without the tariff.

Edit: also worth noting, they’re going to be leasing these direct in many states. No dealer markup.

Fossil fuel production is the only reason he can say the economy is doing well.

We have record breaking production levels

because US can't compete with China

Because China bad, obviously

Because no country should allow a brutal dictatorship like China any control over any of their sectors.

America numba one!

In oil production

Racism and chauvinism with corruption and cronyism mixed in

I mean we see their cheap shitty batteries catching on fire in bikes, hoverboards, phones, laptops.. Can you imagine their cars going up in flames?

Not surprised, considering the equivalent tariffs on the import of solar modules under Biden, Trump and Obama.

If people want something they should be able to have it. If they are good enough for the EU they are good enough for the US.

Australia checking in.

For the last 2 years we're suddenly awash with these cheap Chinese cars, and yank tanks.

They're both ridiculous in their own way. I can't see myself buying either in the next decade.

The Chinese stuff is only selling because its cheaper, but it's going to cost a lot more to own because it's going to lose value much more quickly than real cars. As usual, you pay more for cheaper products.

That said, I don't mind them being here and putting some downward pressure on the price of proper cars.

Commence downvotes butthurt tankies.

Yes Trump imposed the tariff but since Biden didn't cancel it he gets the title of the article. What 🤡 shit.

Also as another commenter pointed out, these vehicles would never pass NHTSA standards anyway.

Almost like that’s part of how he won over the UAW and that Chinese EVs are a threat to US industry and our own migration on the industrial side from petrochemical to electric based manufacturing and infrastructure. I’m not saying that i agree with everything Biden has done in this space, but this is much more complex than Biden saying “I like the environment but hate China” and this article seems to oversimplify a bit.

Also it’s not like Chinese vehicles are banned, the Volvo EX30 is starting sales soon at 35000$, which is extremely cost competitive with current options in the US market despite being affected by the tariffs and not benefiting from US subsidies.

Here’s an article I read yesterday arguing the opposite side and pushing for even more stringent bans on Chinese EVs https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/27/opinion/gm-ford-electric-vehicles.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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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Biden has to lead an increase in charging infrastructure. By the time that was underway (and automakers made some realistic affordable EVs) I think things would change.

And trucks with clean diesel genny powered plug-in Hybrids.

Well he is a politician, so its fairly likely this is something politicial...

They probably don’t meet US safety requirements?

Because he's a neoliberal, beholden to mega-doners, career politician. He's also A-OK with genocide until it costs him points in an election year.

Because GenocideJoe is a sore loser.

I absolutely would not buy a Chinese EV. I don't trust it. I would assume all the data it collects about me would be sent back to Xi Xin Pooh.

Because he’s a sinophobic little bitch 😤