Comment on Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars

• Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Last month, Tesla’s chief executive predicted that Chinese automakers will “demolish” global rivals without trade barriers.

  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.

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  • dragontamer@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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).

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    • Tak@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Li-ion cells, computers, solar panels… all of these are american inventions that capitalist entities moved to China to maximize profits.

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• phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Japan did it. Korea did it. China is doing it.

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