Rather than fixing the economy issues at home, we create more barriers to entry for affordable EV's domestically. Fucking dinosaurs rich off dinosaur remains ruining the planet for our children.
If Chinese made EVs are forced through multiple levels of proper QA, they aren't going to be as affordable as you think. Cheap shit from China is horrendously bad and good quality Chinese goods are just as expensive as domestic products.
Do you really want to sit on top of a few hundred pounds of lithium that wasn't inspected properly?
The US can and does set quality standards for products sold on its markets. This doesn't improve the quality of the cars sold in the US, it just makes them more expensive. It may even have the indirect effect of reducing the quality of vehicles sold in the US because increasing price instead of setting and enforcing quality and testing standards means lowering quality to maintain or increase profits is still an option.
It's really impressive the lack of knowledge in the US about china's products. I can definitely say you have never been inside a BYD or GWM EV. The US car brands have no chance of durvival, the government wants to give them time to die a slow death so employees and shareholders have time to relocate to other industries. The only problem I'd that the ones paying the price will be, as always, the US customers. Just to give you a point of reference, the price for a Tesla 3 equivalent in china is 20,000 USD, let that sink.
I mean, I'm already subscribed to several only fans accounts that shove lead tainted bad dragons into all of their orifices while drinking from a Stanley cup that's full of other toxins.
Sometimes you got to be a little less risk-averse to really live life.
The US automotive industry already isn't competitive abroad. This is only going to make it worse. Meanwhile the investors reap monopoly profits while the consumers pay the price. (And yes I know it's technically an oligopoly.)
To be fair, China is massively subsidizing those manufacturers. Sky high tariffs are a pretty standard response to anti-competitive practices.
The barrier to domestic EVs is that dealers and manufacturers don't like them because of the lower maintenance. We need to tighten efficiency standards to provide better motivation.
This has nothing to do with the economy as a whole which is doing great by all the standard metrics. It's not great for those at the bottom, but they aren't the market for new vehicles.
To be honest, buying a new EV to replace a working gas car is almost as bad as just continuing to use it. Plus most US electricity is generated with fossil fuels. 22% of global emissions are from motor vehicles, but more than half that is commercial and would hardly be affected by consumer EVs.
I believe a far greater priority is to invest in rail structure, curbing both commercial and industrial use of road vehicles, which are both extremely inefficient methods of transport.
Plus most US electricity is generated with fossil fuels.
Most meaning how much? Also it depends on where you are. Some places (including California IIRC but don't quote me on it) already generate enough renewable energy to meet 100% of their consumption and are using fossil fuels as backups. Also EVs are a lot more efficient than ICEs, so they still help even if the power source is fossil fuels.
most US electricity is generated with fossil fuels
This is incorrect. Over the whole country on average about 60% comes from fossil fuels, but it varies massively by location and even what time of day you are charging. Note that in that list on Wikipedia you can sort by CO2 / TWh, which is the most helpful way of looking at it since they have a narrow definition of "renewables". There are other such lists of course...
So blanket statements like "well it's mostly coming from fossil fuels anyway" are simply not helpful. If you live in Vermont, Washington, Oregon, New Hampshire, Idaho and quite a few others, you are not charging your EV with much in the way of fossil fuels, and probably then only at certain times of day.
A really good way to calculate this is to find CO2 emissions per Megawatt hour in your location by time of day. Not all generators provide this, but in California for example, there is a helpful dashboard: https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/emissions.aspx
There are also efforts like https://watttime.org/ which can cycle usage based on emissions. They actually provide APIs for this data.
Hey, always remember, Biden doesn't do all the things, don't forget to vote for your LOCAL politicians, best we can do. Always remember it's all the government not just one guy.
I've never actually seen any Chinese EV cars in the States unless you count like, Volvo. (BYDs and MGs are getting quite popular in Australia though), so this tariff looks to be more political posturing than anything else.
BYD electric busses are made right outside Los Angeles, so they wouldn't be subjected to the tariff at all, but that's a whole other can of worms.
I don't understand why there are some people down voting you. The US auto industry products are relics from the 20th century and protecting it will make it worse. They'll still lose the global auto market.