"In short, Detroit is drifting further and further from the starter car, while factories in China are specializing in it. Just don’t expect the latter to solve for the former anytime soon."

https://archive.ph/xYi2U

There is a bit of union blaming in the article, but it is an overall good article. Basically import taxes, tariffs, and anti-Chinese political sentiment prevent us from having sub $20k EV car.

    • oregoncom [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      So successful is Wuling’s Mini EV that not only are Chinese producers rapidly coming up with copycat cars

      Even when writing an article about Chinese cars Wired accuses the Chinese of copying.... the Chinese. This is your brain on liberalism.

      • charlie
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        1 year ago

        Which is just competition in the marketplace, which I thought was a good thing to them. No surprise they can’t imagine anything other than a monopoly.