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China’s Electric Vehicles Are Going to Hit Detroit Like a Wrecking Ball
(www.nytimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2024
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I'm curious to hear all your thoughts but, will protectionism be immediately necessary with the powers that be not building up the refueling infrastructure that is necessary for electric vehicles? I might be wrong on this, though, so it's always good to hear the input of others.
I can see them doing restrictions on Chinese vehicles for the usual nat-sec justifications or just to score cheap political points through appeals to xenophobia, like with the Tik Tok ban. Maybe they'll have a whole week of news coverage dedicated to it to rile up the boomers before they do it.
I don’t think they really care if drivers get stranded with no where to refuel. The oil industry is still very powerful and won’t go anywhere until the earth collapses. Any action against these cars or EVs in general will likely be a result of massive donations (or the threat of withholding them) and everything else will be theater or just a parallel goal.
So they'll just preempt any growth of ev infrastructure by strangling it in the crib. Very ruthless but, not surprising if I think about it a bit.
If it’s any consolation, overproducing EVs and having everyone signing 3 year leases isn’t really much of a mitigation technique.
We need to figure out how to produce less vehicles in general, or at least try to keep old vehicles in circulation longer.
I would be surprised if we see a Chinese EV for sale in the US this decade.