Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption
jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 week agothe top 4 slots by a huge margin are Tesla Model 3,Y,S,X
Is that true? I saw recently that 95% of Tesla’s cars are the Model Y. I assume a huge chunk of the remaining 5% is the Model 3, leaving very few Model S and X cars on the road. I’d be very surprised to hear that either one of them is in the top 4 best selling American made cars.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I said nothing about top sales. I said “most made in America”. As in: of call cars sold in the USA, which of them contains the most American manufactured parts and labor".
bloodfart@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
how was that figured out? most evs have a less complex manufacturing process and rely on a shitload of electronic components that aren’t manufactured domestically. i’d be interested to see the methodology!
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You’re welcome to read this 158 page PDF from the CBO www.cbo.gov/sites/…/1982_08_16_domestic.pdf
The main legislation comes from the Automobile Information Disclosure Act.
bloodfart@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
i meant the claim that teslas are the top made in america cars. i looked and found cars.com’s list of the most made in america cars and their dubious Made in America Index and that’s about it.
i also want to just throw an electronics manufacturing industry scoff at the CBOs methodology. i used to work for an electronics manufacturer that did mostly pcb assembly. a bunch of the work was government contracts or prestige stuff that had to say “made in USA” on it as opposed to the more clear symbol of a hollowed out manufacturing sector, “assembled in USA”. every day truckloads of parts from china would get soldered to PCBs from iirc taiwan and that was enough to earn made versus assembled.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Oh gotcha, I misunderstood. Yes they are very much made in America. Seeing people complain about them and acting patriotic because they drive a Ford cracks me up.