• xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    The bigger issue is the bottom of the barrel prices making domestic competition impossible.

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      3 months ago

      Sounds like a good reason to nationalize the car industry and not worry about making a profit.

    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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      3 months ago

      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.

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      3 months ago

      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.