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US finalizes rule to effectively ban Chinese vehicles, which could include Polestar
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this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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It fucking sucks and will slow down the transition to electric cars.
We already have that shit in France too. The national companies sell prohibitively expensive cars with some amount of financial help. But if you buy a Chinese car (even with a demonstrably proven carbon footprint) you don't get any help.
Basically this is about protecting our car industry and shielding from their incapacity to provide a value electric car to the masses. Nothing to do with emissions.
China subsidizes their infrastructure and industries which is why they are able to produce cheaper than domestic.
There really isn’t a good answer in these kind of trade wars other than outright banning, tariffs, or heavy subsidies to your own industry.
In these cases countries are determining national security concerns outweigh environmental concerns. Not saying it’s right or wrong but that’s where we are
Ideally we can use this strategy to our benefit, tell the North American automakers that there needs to be x readily available models of electric cars with minimum specs at a certain price by a specific date or they will open up the market to China who will eat their lunch.
That is genius, not seeing any downsides.
We could take like some of or all of the 20B we spend on oil subsidies and subsidize electric instead... that seems like a good answer to me.
Heavy subsidies to our own industry are definitely a better alternative, but our politicians would rather cry "China bad" and further line the pockets of our ruling class
You couldn't pay me to drive a French car. Stick to making wine and baguettes.
Don't worry, they generally don't drive for long until they break anyway ...