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[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 42 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (11 children)
  1. Dogmatically sticking to fossil fuels.
  2. "Protecting" domestic manufacturering jobs by refusing to engage with your neighbours.
  3. Using tariffs to keep out affordable Chinese EVs that use tech everyone will probably be using in 15 to 20 years.

Sounds like a recipe for disaster. You can only artificially prop up your domestic market for so long. You'll inevitably fall behind even further on innovation with this approach.

Might be the first to make a CoPilot or ChatGPT powered car though.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Look, the Chinese EVs are a literal trade weapon. The other points I agree on. But China has subsidies on EVs even when sold to other countries because they aim to put competitors out of business globally. Otherwise they'd just be subsidizing EVs for domestic use.

So I can't blame them for tariffing those. But the solution is to invest heavily in domestic EVs, not to keep running with internal combustion...

[–] hark@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The US heavily subsidizes its auto industry. Why is this being raised as a point against China? It's not China's fault that American auto companies use their subsidies to line their pockets instead of creating cheaper and better vehicles.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 months ago

And countries that have auto industries put tariffs on US cars too. They also don't get nowhere near as much in subsidies per car sold abroad. And for the EV subsidies, foreign EVs were also eligible.

China also tariffs foreign cars heavily and always has.

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