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Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry (insideevs.com)

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Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Whose fault is it?

Chinese EV manufacturers, on the other hand, are already five to 10 years ahead of their American and European rivals, Kumar said. A lot of that is thanks to aggressive investments in the EV industry from the Chinese government.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

It's amazing what kind of leaps you can make with government funding research.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Don't forget the IP theft!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Stealing IP from SUV companies to make cheap EVs is insanely based

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Everyone does that though. My favourite is the original Xbox and everything from around the same time having notoriously bad capacitors because a faulty electrolyte formula was chain stolen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Interesting, I'd love to dig on this, any reference?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yet US has incentives, mandates, and protectionism. Why aren’t US manufacturers 5-10 years ahead?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I assume lobbying

[+] [email protected] -25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

From the average American’s perspective? Probably still China. China always bad. Always.

Americans are also so lacking in moral consistency that they’ll throw their racism and xenophobia to the side just to save $1.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

On the other hand, so many things in America have become so expensive many people are priced out of the market. Perhaps they will save the $1.00 because if they don't, it doesn't happen. The average price of a new car in America is more than $47k. That's a lot of money.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

Have you ever handled anything made in China? It'll be something invented somewhere else, implemented worse.