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Trump may have put a small speedbump in the path, but Ford could have absolutely pushed forward with promoting EVs if they wanted to. People do buy EVs even without incentives, and car companies have been telling people what their preferences are the whole time.
Some richer people buy EVs without incentives. Most people can't with how expensive they are upfront. Same with solar panels.
Chinese EVs and solar panels are dirt cheap. They become expensive because of tariffs. And western car companies really don't like to invest in EVs because planning ahead 10 years won't pay off right NOW.
They're cheap because they're massively subsidized by the Chinese government.
This is just xenophobic propaganda. When we subsidize EVs and solar, that's just us stimulating new industries. When they do it, it's those devil foreigners up to their evil deeds again!
No. When China subsidizes EVs, it's stimulating their new industry. And it's working. But the fact is still that their EVs are super cheap because they're massively subsidized.