But at the end of the day, he told InsideEVs, “if you have a compelling product and it’s cheaper, it’s tough from an economic sense to keep those vehicles out.”
"hold my beer!"
- congress and the current and next 4 presidential administrations
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The average car sale price in the US is almost $50K.
US automakers have decided to relegate a large chunk of the population to the used market while also ensuring with all the electric extra bits that the used market will be entirely unreliable in 10 years.
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at this point I'm open to chinese world hegemony if it means I get a house, a union, and a carbon neutral economy
at this point I’m open to chinese world hegemony if it means I get a house, a union, and a carbon neutral economy
Have you looked at China today to see what each of those things looks like in China? Hint, its surprisingly worse in those 3 things than the USA, which is already a low bar.
This did prompt me to check, and China's homeownership is higher and homelessness rates are lower than in the USA, as are their per-capita carbon emissions
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Whatever their quality, which seem to be below American but above European in terms of reliability, they're still going to be cheaper and better then a chewed up Altima on it's 12th owner at a usurious 15% APR being sold at predatory "buy here, pay here" lot that plague low income American neighborhoods like a herpes infection.
All current automakers selling cars in the use including Koreans, have been happy to screw over American customers with oligopolistic pricing for decades.
To quote a great philosopher "There's not a damn thing funny. You gotta have a car in the land of milk and honey.". An automobile is a critical tool for economic mobility in the states and the US has been happy leave a auto underclass forced to buy garbage used cars at eye watering APRs. Loans all backed by Wall Street criminals.
A car maker like BYD could not come soon enough.