What did we get from Detroit? Bloated low tech shit boxes that barely make it past warranty.
Don’t forget the bailouts:
Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 days agoPeople CONSTANTLY harp on Chinese government support of the EV industry.
Name one ICE manufacturer not taking state and federal money. Detroit took $80B in handouts after 2008. That’s far more than the Chinese government has spent, and the largest investor in Chinese industry, by far, has been Apple Computers.
So China ended up with a new industry taking the world stage. What did we get from Detroit? Bloated low tech shit boxes that barely make it past warranty.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 days ago
The UK was constantly bribing car makers to stay, and most of them still fucked off.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Australia just gave up and told GM and Ford to go it alone. The fact that they shut it all down in 2017 says there was no business plan without government subsidies.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Well there is a plan, it’s just “make them in countries where you can still have slaves”.