We Canadians are in a weird place - socialism isn’t a dirty word up here (except as imported from American culture)… but we’re still deep into neoliberalism with both the LPC and CPC being strongly neoliberal parties… the only national party arguably opposed to neoliberalism is the NDP.
Nationalize who? The only domestic companies are GM, Ford, and Tesla. This isn’t about protecting those three companies, it’s about protecting all of them.
Domestic competitors aren’t producing affordable vehicles. They are producing oversize, overweight, overcomplicated, overpriced crap.
They aren’t competitive primarily because they are focused on a low-volume, high-margin luxury market, and avoiding the high-volume, low-margin utilitarian market. It is their abandonment of that market that provided China with the opportunity to corner it.
Lmao no. That is not the bigger issue compared to literally continuing to poison the planet with fossil fuels.
That’s North American governments’ stated reason for imposing the tariffs, but that could also be addressed by matching industry subsidies. But I think government understands that the North American auto-makers are intentionally sabotaging the EV market and subsidies likely wouldn’t produce a vastly different result.
I would love it but I don’t think the economy could handle the 100,000s of jobs that would be lost. The big 3 can’t compete and China charges a similar tariff on our vehicle exports. Only theirs isn’t a single fee. They charge a tariff, plus additional taxes and fees, the price can double by purchase depending on the vehicle. China can always start making them here and get around it.
They don’t nationalize anything. Not healthcare, energy, higher education. Lots of things that would make sense to and would benefit us all. Taking over the auto industry feels impossible. Besides I’d rather the government go all out on rail which has more benefits for a greater number of people.
We do have affordable EVs. Go look at the used market or a new Leaf. PHEVs are plentiful too. This is about preventing China from putting everyone out of business because the Chinese government has deeper pockets than any of the global auto manufacturers that would be affected by this.
Europe seems to be way ahead… Why can’t US actually make affordable cars that actually work and have some modern features? Meanwhile all EU brands have actual entry model.
Because god forbid North America have affordable EVs.
The bigger issue is the bottom of the barrel prices making domestic competition impossible.
Sounds like a good reason to nationalize the car industry and not worry about making a profit.
We Canadians are in a weird place - socialism isn’t a dirty word up here (except as imported from American culture)… but we’re still deep into neoliberalism with both the LPC and CPC being strongly neoliberal parties… the only national party arguably opposed to neoliberalism is the NDP.
Nationalize who? The only domestic companies are GM, Ford, and Tesla. This isn’t about protecting those three companies, it’s about protecting all of them.
Yea and that’s more than half of the cars driven in the United States.
More like 34%. Tesla is 4%, Ford 13% and GM 16.9% in the US
Everybody is forgetting Chrysler/Dodge for some reason.
“The national breakdown as determined by the data is 55.55 percent for domestic makes and 44.45 percent for foreign makes.”
https://www.kilgorenewsherald.com/home-is-where-the-car-is-top-10-states-for-domestic-and-foreign-car-brands/article_0027c354-4a92-58b5-bc7f-9cea645a4272.html
Chrysler/Dodge/RAM/Jeep are owned by a company based in the Netherlands.
Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep
They’re owned by a company from the Netherlands.
Sounds like a good way to end up making Yugos.
Yugos were great cars for the time and for what Yugoslavia needed and could build.
You and I have very different memories of Yugos.
Domestic competitors aren’t producing affordable vehicles. They are producing oversize, overweight, overcomplicated, overpriced crap.
They aren’t competitive primarily because they are focused on a low-volume, high-margin luxury market, and avoiding the high-volume, low-margin utilitarian market. It is their abandonment of that market that provided China with the opportunity to corner it.
Lmao no. That is not the bigger issue compared to literally continuing to poison the planet with fossil fuels.
That’s North American governments’ stated reason for imposing the tariffs, but that could also be addressed by matching industry subsidies. But I think government understands that the North American auto-makers are intentionally sabotaging the EV market and subsidies likely wouldn’t produce a vastly different result.
If the Chinese government wants to subsidize my next car, fucking let them.
I would love it but I don’t think the economy could handle the 100,000s of jobs that would be lost. The big 3 can’t compete and China charges a similar tariff on our vehicle exports. Only theirs isn’t a single fee. They charge a tariff, plus additional taxes and fees, the price can double by purchase depending on the vehicle. China can always start making them here and get around it.
If they nationalized the auto industry, why would jobs be lost?
They don’t nationalize anything. Not healthcare, energy, higher education. Lots of things that would make sense to and would benefit us all. Taking over the auto industry feels impossible. Besides I’d rather the government go all out on rail which has more benefits for a greater number of people.
We do have affordable EVs. Go look at the used market or a new Leaf. PHEVs are plentiful too. This is about preventing China from putting everyone out of business because the Chinese government has deeper pockets than any of the global auto manufacturers that would be affected by this.
Europe seems to be way ahead… Why can’t US actually make affordable cars that actually work and have some modern features? Meanwhile all EU brands have actual entry model.
The EU is also imposing tariffs on Chinese EVs. What European cars are you referring to specifically that aren’t available in the US?
Maybe Peugeot? Or Renault? Idk if they have EVs or affordable EVs tho.
I would not buy a used Leaf. The batteries on those are short on life, especially on models that don’t have an active thermal management system.