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[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (9 children)

They’re simply too expensive across the board. Build me a subcompact, bare-bones street-legal EV for $10,000 and you won’t be able to make them quick enough to keep up with demand for a decade.

But they won’t do this because they rather all compete for a small pool of luxury buyers and lobby to hold the line.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

China has done it, and they’ll be here soon.

American Auto Manufacturers - it’s hard to even conceive how you’ve thrown away the biggest car market in the history of the world, but. You have. Multiple times.

[–] JJROKCZ 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No they won’t, American politicians preach free market all day and night but will protect American automakers from Chinese competition at the same time. They won’t allow BYD on the streets of Michigan because the second they do, the real owners of Detroit stop donating

[–] homesweethomeMrL 1 points 4 months ago

BYD doesn’t pay the tariffs, and they’ll just build a plant in Juarez and boop there they are trundling around the US.

The real owners of Detroit left 30 years ago. They all live in London, or Phoenix now.

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