Protectionism only works in the VERY short term. If the USA doesn't pull its finger out of its ass and make affordable good EVs, then its automotive industry will crash and burn. Because the rest of the world unaffected by tariffs will be buying Chinese (or Korean / European) EVs and not American ones because they'll be expensive and suck.
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I would mind less if the American auto industry was producing affordable lightweight EVs...
Best we can do is a four ton truck.
Or cars with any level of quality.
Hey man the Toyota I drive was made in the USA, it's great.
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they really willing to throw the planet under the bus so they can protect their own oligarchs. so much for the free market.
"We want expensive American EVs that most people can't afford, not cheap Chinese ones....."
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With how china keeps implanting everything with spyware, I agree to keep them away from the heavy tech incorporated cars. Really wish we could transition away from using chinese shit
All auto manufacturers put spyware in their cars now. This isn't a china problem, this is an everyone problem. We need anti-spyware laws that apply to everyone.
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Oh? More spyware than GM selling your data to your insurance company? More spyware than all of the stuff your smartphone collects?
It's absolutely a bad faith argument to say we can't have Chinese cars because they conduct industry standard data scraping.
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Something something free market
The free market is propaganda to trick people into thinking capitalism is somehow ethically solvent.
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Then China shouldn’t subsidize its manufacturers’ exports while increasing the burden for foreign companies to compete internally. If anyone thinks China cornering the global EV market is a good long term plan, they are naive.
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Isn't it a national security risk?
Then he should solve the issue by requiring the code to be hosted on American servers with source code inspection.
Not by making EVs unaffordable.
Novel idea: make a car, not a cloud service. My phone is better at navigation etc anyways.
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Yes a big risk. Both natsec and IP theft are major concerns and cars are fully mic'd, compromisable, and to top it off, plug directly into your phone.
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Anti China Republicans are going to HATE this! They would MUCH rather Elect the man whose Daughter got over 70 patents FASTTRACKED in China once he was elected!
They would just put their hands on their ears and repeat "Hunter Biden laptop" until a scary fact like that one goes away.
Make them in Mexico. Less reliance on one country is better for everyone.
They’re trying to block mexican made Chinese vehicles as well. They don’t want Americans buying cheap evs.
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