Can we please have affordable electric vehicles?
“No. We have affordable electric vehicles at home.”
The affordable electric vehicles at home: cybertruck-on-flatbed.jpg
this post was submitted on 15 May 2024
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Nah ah! The cybertruck can be placed on things other than a flat bed! I know for sure it can be on a flat bed that also has lots of rocks! I've seen it placed on the side of a mountain. You could in theory pull it through the toughest terrain you can imagine and expect that some of it would still be attached to your cable. It's such a versatile vehicle!
It’s so ironic that the same crowd that wants US businesses to divest from Israel loves to defend trade with China, who is actively committing genocide of the Tibetans and Uyghurs, while threatening invasion of Taiwan. Pick a side. Money or morals.
How about we make it clear to us legacy automakers: you have a head start in the us, you have protection from dumping … get your shit together. You have like two years for BYD to build a factory in Mexico and scale up for export. This is your final chance. Use it or find out you’re no longer “too big to fail”
Chinese Electric Vehicles could press the laggards in the USA to innovate in the space! No wonder they are so desperate to regulate Chinese Electric cars to death…
I keep trying to point out thatr capitalism and free markets are different things, but nobody seems to get it. This is an excellent example.
Capitalists - owners of capital - want to make certain markets less free in order to protect their personal interests.
Bad.
So now Biden wants to implement the same policies that he criticized Trump for putting in place...Sounds about right
And his fan club are working overtime trying to justify it by employing xenophobic tropes such as "beholden to China" and falsely equating Chinese EVs with the Uighur genocide.
They're even calling anyone who opposes this Trumpian tariff anti-union and in favor of Americans losing their jobs! 🤦
Hey, if the shoe fits...
What do you mean? Didn't we just agree that it doesn't?
Obviously not
Ambivalent.
Good.