Comment on Prospect of low-priced Chinese EVs reaching US from Mexico poses threat to automakers
Illuminostro@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“Competition is good until it threatens my business.”
Comment on Prospect of low-priced Chinese EVs reaching US from Mexico poses threat to automakers
Illuminostro@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“Competition is good until it threatens my business.”
anon232@lemm.ee 8 months ago
This isnt about competition, its about safety standards and not having literal death traps on our roads. Like another comment said, look at how many chinese brands with word salad names there are on amazon, now imagine that but with cars. If people are buying these and importing them into the USA it could put many lives at risk since they wouldn’t be following our safety standards for vehicle manufacturing.
reddit_sux@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You can have well regulated competition or boot legged death traps. Not both. Instead of tariffs make them regulated, with strong safety rules and need for a network. It might just give you cheap, well built EVs. They might target small city cars with 200 miles range instead of humongous SUVs that everyone is running after.
hark@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is already addressed by the fact that a vehicle has to comply with NHTSA safety standards in order to be imported into the US. Tariffs do nothing about this.