Comment on Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars
Tak@lemmy.ml 7 months agoIt’s really just a matter of time till Chinese manufacturers set up in Mexico and the US will have to accept Chinese EVs because of NAFTA. The US also has lots of range anxiety about EVs that I don’t see as much in other markets. Being 120v and sprawling with limited government willingness to build infrastructure, with no requirements for rentals to add chargers makes a perfect storm for that fear.
IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They just announced that’s the plan actually
reuters.com/…/chinas-byd-plans-new-electric-vehic…
Pika@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
it sounds like maybe they should, idk? work on making their own garbage cheaper then? Ghat soley sounds like a competition problem not a consumer problem.
dragontamer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The geopolitical calculus here is about manufacturing.
If China owns EV production lines, that gives them the drone advantage in the next war, as the Li-ion battery is the hard thing to make in a drone.
If USA has EV lines, even if it’s more expensive, we have the resources to make drones as well. (Or Li-ion batteries in other useful weapons).
Tak@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Li-ion cells, computers, solar panels… all of these are american inventions that capitalist entities moved to China to maximize profits.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Japan did it. Korea did it. China is doing it.