this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2023
88 points (94.9% liked)

Electric Vehicles

3156 readers
145 users here now

A community for the sharing of links, news, and discussion related to Electric Vehicles.

Rules

  1. No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
  2. Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.
  3. No self-promotion
  4. No irrelevant content. All posts must be relevant and related to plug-in electric vehicles — BEVs or PHEVs.
  5. No trolling
  6. Policy, not politics. Submissions and comments about effective policymaking are allowed and encouraged in the community, however conversations and submissions about parties, politicians, and those devolving into general tribalism will be removed.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
all 20 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Mojojojo1993 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If only we could buy their stuff.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I think I read that the US is considering tariffs or something to basically raise the cost of these cars for US consumers.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There is already an effective 27.5% tariffs on cars made in China. They are still considering to raise it higher.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Well I do t live in the US anymore and there are Chinese cars where I live. Additionally electric cars are just starting to hit the roads here, so hopefully, when my wife and o get a car, we can get an electric one.

[–] Mojojojo1993 5 points 9 months ago

Also not American but yeah.

Free market. But not really. Govt will meddle when it suits

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

US I assume? We do get their buses and Semis. Have for years. So maybe we'll get cars too? I won't hold my breath though. I think we'll count ourselves lucky if we get Nissans made in China once that plant opens.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I don't wanna be that guy, but BYD are not only garbage tofu cars, they are also HEAVILY subsidized by the CCP in an effort to dump on the competition.

[–] Viking_Hippie 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You don't understand the amount of dumping they are doing. The CCP is intentionally putting the competition out of business so one day they can own the market. They already did this with solar panels.

[–] spez_ -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They might be many things, but garbage is definitely not one of them. I can tell you are from the US and haven't seen any Chinese cars up close. They make the US cars look ancient!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I'm not from the US. I'm in Taiwan and China. They are garbage cars. Teslas are also garbage cars.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

You can easily smell their fragile masculinity by the use of the term "tofu" as an insult.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

teen libtards who likes to suck Elon Musk's balls will spread a lot of hate on X after this news

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Good. Let's see if Tesla buckles or spins out Musk.