Prospect of low-priced Chinese EVs reaching US from Mexico poses threat to automakers
Prospect of low-priced Chinese EVs reaching US from Mexico poses threat to automakers
America’s auto industry has grown concerned that Chinese carmakers may be preparing to set up shop in Mexico to exploit North American trade rules.
It’s a scenario that terrifies America’s auto industry.
Chinese carmakers set up shop in Mexico to exploit North American trade rules. Once in place, they send ultra-low-priced electric vehicles streaming into the United States.
As the Chinese EVs go on sale across the country, America’s homegrown EVs — costing an average of $55,000, roughly double the price of their Chinese counterparts — struggle to compete. Factories close. Workers lose jobs across America’s industrial heartland.
If only US automakers had developed the electric car in, say, the early 90’s and then had the infrastructure and knowledge base in 2024 to produce an EV people (who aren’t automotive executives) could afford.
OR, failing that, it would have been great after US automakers blew their entire savings on gas guzzlers and fucking went bankrupt sixteen years ago so the taxpayers gave them boatloads of free fucking money if they could have set aside some money, say, six billion, to develop an EV people could afford - that’d have been great.
BUT THEY DIDN’T. Now China’s at the door and they’ve got it. Fuck. Uhhhhh . . Unfair trading advantage!! Help! Gummit! More money!
US Automakers have shit the bed 1000 times. They can show themselves out.
The US's own automakers have a history of doing the same thing, moving manufacturing to Canada and Mexico.
Don't be so quick to adopt Chinese products.
Look where it got us today. And also, look at the quality of mostly everything nowadays.
Imagine that with cars.
As for read and replied to on a Chinese made phone....I'll gladly bash Chinese stuff when it's made of pure lead and toxic but this is an American manufacturing issue not a Chinese one.... same thing happened in the 70/80 with Japanese automotive manufacturing due to the US not making what people want...
Quality control? Safety standards? Phhhh those only add cost!
Buy an affordable car from XYSSJ brand!
...oh a XYSSJ car catches fire and kills the passengers trapped inside ... and the brand disappears.
Not to worry! You can buy an affordable car from the latest brand:FongWay! These cars sure look surprisingly familiar... 🤔
Cry me a river and quit putting fake dealership lottery shit in my mailbox. Don't even think about building a bridge until my throttle body doesn't think about it first before opening up and telemetry is a relic from a more barbaric time.
I'm not an expert, but I think its totally possible to make a safe 20k EV, maybe even cheaper. We dont need supercomputer touch screen sell yer data super gps NSA track all civilians crap in there either. Just a simple goddamn daily driver.
Is capitalism good still?