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Almost like we should focus on making the US better / competitive instead of trying to succeed by blocking others.
Don't we get a ton of components and raw materials required for EVs from China already?
Almost like we should focus on making the US better / competitive instead of trying to succeed by blocking others.
That's against the interests of the u.s capitalists.
Don't we get a ton of components and raw materials required for EVs from China already?
Yes but they get shoved into dogshit u.s cars who's prices are raised many times more than the cost it was to make the damn things to scalp the average American of more of their dwindling wealth
America literally manufactures cars in China but wants to ban chinese cars. America ruthlessly attacks anything that threatens its world domination one bit. Death to America.
Almost like we should focus on making the US better / competitive instead of trying to succeed by blocking others.
some japanese & korean automakers have teamed together to do that and i suspect that they'll be ahead of the curve of whatever the markets look like 10 years from now; meanwhile the the us and western europe is going to rely on tariffs that will only leave their automakers less prepared for what's coming.
Please America. Please scuttle NAFTA over your dinosaur pickup truck industry. Nothing would be funnier.
They'll just come up with some china exclusive work around law that's 700 pages and bundled with a bunch of draconian bullshit laws.
BRB, hiring a coyote to smuggle a cool Chinese EV over the border to avoid tariffs.
You won't be able to drive them on the road unless the DoT has done safety testing on that specific model of car. You can own one, you're just not going to be able to put plates on it or get it insured.
You can drive it across the border if it has Mexican plates though.
I've seen models of cars not sold in the US far from the border with Mexican plates.
i'm sure US cops wouldnt abuse someone driving a chinese car with mexican plates...
They probably might but people drive their cars with Mexican plates into the US all the time.
I think you just discovered the plot for The Fast and the Furious 10.
I can't believe that shit is still going. I never watched a single one of them.
But I looked it up and it seems like, at least some, Chinese hybrid SUVs in Mexico converting from current MXN to USD rate go for around $35-40k at their highest, premium tier. Some hybrid SUVs in the US at their bottom tier are currently $50k+. That's such a wild fucking difference. Thinking about it, you'd probably need an address in Mexico to register it and whatever but I don't see why or how they'd stop you at the border on the drive back home into the US. Not sure how maintenance or registration would go after that though, so maybe it's not sustainable unless you have a consistent Mexican address. I hope someone out there gets around the system and drives in their affordable, premium Chinese car in the US. Death to tariffs.
Maybe if US automakers were making fairly priced cars this wouldn't be an issue?
Damn sounds like the most equitable solution would be to ban car imports and domestic production. Starting a ~20year clock where the suburbs die on the vine without the huge fuel and unsustainable infrastructure subsidies that currently make them viable.
