America over here letting a felon rapist pedophile hand the future to China.
Home of the brave my asshole.
Well what accomplishments has your asshole completed to be labeled as brave?
/duck
Manufacturers adjust to the best financial option. The current administration destroyed the progress toward electric normalization. Be more specific than blaming an entire country.
It’s not just manufacturers or the government. There are opportunities for encouraging EV adoption, and even making money while doing so, all over the place. Companies are just mostly choosing not to implement them.
For example, on a recent road trip I went inside a shopping mall for the first time in a decade because they had a fast charging station in the parking lot and I had some some time to kill while my car charged. They made money off me in multiple ways because of the decision to build out EV infrastructure.
I’ve also booked hotels and eaten at restaurants specifically because they had charging stations on site. Even a cheap level 2 charger will do a lot to convince me to come check out your business.
Even ignoring all that, charging my car at home is about 1/4 the cost of a tank of gas, which doesn’t take my solar panels into account at all and those come with a whole host of additional benefits unrelated to EVs. The government can’t override basic math.
Which won’t stop them from trying, of course. This will result in yet another breakdown of the US car industry and ultimately yet another bailout. So in the end the tax payer will be stuck with the bill and huge amounts of money will be moved into the pockets of the owner class. System works as designed.
Excellent points. You are, however, presuming that Americans will act within their own best interests. Or that they’re capable of following basic math over the illusion of freedom given by ICE vehicles. Americans will transition, but I’m not optimistic it’ll be at a reasonable pace.
I was simplifying for the sake of brevity but you’ve covered a lot of the rest of the relevant topics.
I will say that for many consumers the only price in mind is the purchase price. When shopping for a vehicle people are not looking further than what they’re paying to drive the car home. Upkeep is an afterthought.
Avg vehicle is 50k suv nowadays… Clearly they don’t mind paying extra for something that affirmss their gender and/or class.
Imagine what would happen to that average price if the US didn’t have a 100% tariff on the $8,000 BYD Seagull…
It could be 20k domestic truck allegedly… But yeah us is struggling at “capitalism”
And soon, the world’s largest economy will be, perhaps for the first time in modern history, a technological laggard.
Ha ha ha ha.
As someone who has visited Asian countries and Canada, the US has been “technological laggard” for decades.
It’s hard not to have a jaded vision of the future where the US looks and operates drastically different from the rest of the world. Still on fossil fuels and ICE cars, using imperial units and other “standards” with drastically dipping quality while the rest of the world functions together and leaves the US behind.
You can say that the innovation will still be pushed by companies, but they’ll follow the money and they won’t be able to extract money from Americans since they won’t have any money with how hard rhe economy is being run into the ground.
America is in the process of suicide.
Death by MAGA
because you decided to tariff chinese ev, and sell your overpriced EVS, why would anyone buy it anyways.
Yeah sure WE decided to do that. Even many of the people who voted for the pedo-in-chief don’t like the tariffs.
I was told recently by an American that tariffs were a good thing if you just believed in them and Trump. He explained that for a $100 product, china pays $30 of the tariff so you only pay $70. What a discount!
Be like that dude and you’ll be happier.
He’s going to be upset when he goes to make his first purchase and that $30 goes to the government and not to him. This is just raising taxes ffs.
I’m sure he’ll find a way to justify it :) they always do.
Looked up the polling and that’s an unusual sort of ignorance. A broad majority of American’s think tariffs will raise prices, even through the long term.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/660002/americans-skeptical-benefits-tariffs.aspx
All the Americans I know in person believe tariffs will lower prices.
