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Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50% (archive.ph)
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A new report estimates that the company led by Elon Musk accounted for just under half of all battery-powered vehicles sold in the second quarter of the year.

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[–] just_another_person -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"protectionist" 🤣🤣🤣

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 11 points 4 months ago

That was partly me being a smart ass — America obviously loves free trade except when it doesn’t — but we did slap 100% tariffs on Chinese made cars and we subsidize EVs that don’t source materials from China (and a few other “nations of concern” that don’t really export those materials anyway).