But, will people actually want to buy them?
Prospect of low-priced Chinese EVs reaching US from Mexico poses threat to automakers
It’s a scenario that terrifies America’s auto industry.
Chinese carmakers set up shop in Mexico to exploit North American trade rules. Once in place, they send ultra-low-priced electric vehicles streaming into the United States.
As the Chinese EVs go on sale across the country, America’s homegrown EVs — costing an average of $55,000, roughly double the price of their Chinese counterparts — struggle to compete. Factories close. Workers lose jobs across America’s industrial heartland.
Ultimately, it would all become a painful replay of how government-subsidized Chinese competition devastated American industries from steel to solar equipment over the past quarter-century. This time, it would be electric vehicles, which America’s automakers envision as the core of their business in the coming decades.
Low-priced Chinese EVs pose a potentially “extinction-level event’’ for America’s auto industry, the Alliance for American Manufacturing has warned.
Would Americans want tiny EVs? Perhaps for city only drivers. You wouldn’t really be able to go far in them, and, what of repairs? What of insurance costs? Would they want to spend $27500 for one, when they can get a Civic or Corolla? In reality, a lot of the Chinese EVs for Europe are a lot less expensive, because they are being subsidized by the Chinese government. And virtual slave labor to build them.
Of course, the people trying to force Americans into EVs, despite those Elites not driving them themselves, are happy with this
The threat from Beijing is emerging just as U.S. automakers face slowing EV sales. High prices and a shortage of charging stations are keeping many American consumers away.
Cheap Chinese EVs might help by pushing down prices, accelerating sales and encouraging investment in charging stations. “It would be cheaper just to let the Chinese cars come in, forget all the tariffs and subsidies, let the market figure it out,’’ said Christine McDaniel, a senior research fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center. “Yes, it would be disruptive. But EVs would get on the road in the U.S. a lot faster.”
They want to restrict the working and middle classes from having easy fossil fueled travel by any means, even if it means letting China dominate the market. Though, would they? Further, will they have the safety standards required for the U.S.? People talk about America letting the market decide, but, the market would be skewed by China dumping the vehicles.
Mr Teach neglected to include this quote from the article: The 2020 U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement would potentially let Chinese cars assembled in Mexico enter the United States duty-free or at a nominal 2.5% tariff rate. Either way, China could sell its EVs well below typical U.S. prices.
So this was Donald Trump’s doing? No wonder MAGAt Teach excluded it from his attack.
So Rimjob (aka SMF) let us know when the Chinese potentially start selling their cars in the US.
Thanks dumbass.Potentially.
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#Trump2024
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A potential dumbass? Nope, I’m the real deal dumbass! Yep, but an order of magnitude smarter than you.
Bye. Homie don’t play dat!!
Well you have scammed over $5OM from unsuspecting investors so you got me there.
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Fact-checking the “fact checkers” – Team Trump launches Fact Check site!
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2024/06/fact-checking-fact-checkers-team-trump.html
Lemme see if I can repair the headline:
Just About Everything About China Causes Problems for Just About Everything in the USA
There, you’re welcome.
Watched a video of a gas truck vs EV ford Lightning towing a heavy work trailer. The EV managed 90 miles before creeping into a charging port and blocking traffic with a Truck and Trailer. Police was dispatched and the guy had to back out of the charging station, unhitch his trailer and then wait in line again to charge his truck….Time elapsed….1 hour 44 minutes.
Meanwhile, the diesel truck towed its trailer 200 miles, dropped it off, and drove back to the charging station. Still not needing to fill up, he waited with his buddy. After charging, the guy just hitched the trailer and went back home since it was a dry run.
However, another video shows the EV truck pulling a max load up the 9-mile stretch in Colorado at 6 degrees, which is really steep, with no problem at all. However, the truck used 44 percent of its charge in just 19 miles—10 miles to get to the 6-degree grade and then the 9-mile pull to the top.
Meanwhile a diesel and gasoline truck uses about 3 gallons of fuel to do the same pull.
EV truck are just not ready for prime time unless of course we somehow avoid world war 3, Defeat Russia, Iran, North Korea and CHINA and take over UKRAINE’S 13 trillion dollars worth of EV battery assetts. The real reason we are fighting this war for B L A C K R O C K!!