Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple

• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Chinese carbon emissions may have peaked this year and they’ve deployed more renewables than the rest of the world combined.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s because they’re also heavily subsidizing that industry out of self-interest. That’s the “emerging markets” I mentioned above.

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Which sounds like a good idea for everybody. Maybe other countries should do the same thing.

      I’m no fan of West Taiwan but they’re doing a lot more to decarbonize than most other major economies.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Like always, it’s a great idea, right up until China jacks up the prices after they’ve driven out all the competition and it no longer makes sense to buy them anymore.

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    • tyra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Oh no, a country acts out of self-interest! A concept that is completely foreign to the West 😱 At least their “self-interest“ has cheaper EVs for the rest of the world as a result. What are the coeffects of the US defending their self-interests? Rise in facism? Another genocide?

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Once again, I am not having a pissing match about which country is better, I am discussing the success of electric vehicles from China.

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    • Amberskin@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They are subsiding the deployment of clean energy sources?

      Good for them. And good for the world.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Sure, it’s great for everyone, right up until it’s not anymore because they’ve erased the competition and then jacked up the prices to the point that common people can’t afford them, and further driven down workers’ wages in the process.

        Is no one else familiar with the concept of Predatory Pricing?

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• stephen@lazysoci.al ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  As always - well under what USA is putting into the atmosphere. ourworldindata.org/…/co-emissions-per-capita

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s per Capita, China has like 30 billion more citizens.

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    • stephen@lazysoci.al ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Correct and correct.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        So then you agree you were wrong…?

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Per capita is the measure that counts, why should Americans be allowed to put multiple times more CO2 into the air than other people?

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They also manufacture the rest of the world’s shit. So all in all they’re pretty clean for how big they are.

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• Amberskin@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Maybe YOU should give another look at those figures.

  Specially the ones relative to the % of new renewables put into production during the last years.

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