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Would be great if we could buy/drive these in the US. Funny how we have a "free market" only when it is convenient for certain interests...
by Pfhortune 4mo ago
Would be great if we could buy/drive these in the US. Funny how we have a "free market" only when it is convenient for certain interests...
- TulliusCicero 4mo agoI agree that that would be great as a consumer, but given how protectionist China is, you can hardly blame countries for responding in kind. Trade should be a two way street.
- sampton 4mo agoDoesn't Tesla have a factory in China?
- SpicyLemonZest 4mo agoThey do. The Chinese government gave them a special exemption, presumably because they wanted to build EV manufacturing expertise. Other foreign auto companies are not allowed to open their own factories in China; they have to do a joint venture with a local manufacturer.
- Barbing 4mo ago>presumably because they wanted to build EV manufacturing expertise Worked with Apple!
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- NickC25 4mo agoThey do. Because Elon is proving himself to be quite an idiot. China was more than happy to welcome him in, and have him teach them how to build an EV. They simply copied what they could and improved on it. "The communists will happily sell the capitalists the rope the capitalists hang themselves with"
- threethirtytwo 4mo agoIt’s other capitalists that stole the tech. China is a country of capitalists living under a communist regime.
- mghackerlady 4mo agocapitalists the communists put up with because it's better for communism in the long run
- consumer451 4mo ago> it's better for communism in the long run "Communism" is a theoretical concept. The CCP is what they are protecting, an authoritarian power structure.
- mghackerlady 4mo agothe CCP exists to build communism
- consumer451 4mo agoI mean, that's the marketing material. Once Xi declared himself emperor for life, that marketing material fell apart a bit, didn't it? How is modern China even close to theoretical "communism?" It's certainly not Marxist, right?
- mghackerlady 4mo agoit follows marxist principles and is building towards communism, which isn't overnight. It's currently in a socialist stage. Also, Xi is closer to the captain of a ship rather than an absolute monarch. He has a lot of power, yes, but that's because the party trusts him, not because he demands it
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- cmxch 4mo agoJust buy a Textron golf cart and you have 90% of the Chinese EV experience.
- Mashimo 4mo agoAre you saying all cars that are manufactured in China are rubbish? Because that is just plain wrong.
- b40d-48b2-979e 4mo agoIt's the same propaganda that was used against Japan and Korean cars. Asia = bad, America = good.
- dorianmariecom 4mo agohttps://ezgo.txtsv.com/ https://ezgo.txtsv.com/ is there even a screen?
- zardo 4mo agohttps://electrek.co/2026/04/27/byd-seal-08-blade-battery-2-1000km-range-beijing-auto-show/ https://electrek.co/2026/04/27/byd-seal-08-blade-battery-2-1...
- high_na_euv 4mo agoFree market does not exist
- ASalazarMX 4mo agoOr rather, it exists briefly until it is naturally captured by the biggest players.
- high_na_euv 4mo agoThere is always some industry thats favored by gov due to good reasons. Military, food, energy, etc.
- ASalazarMX 4mo agoWhich is sensible; the problem is favouring some players so much they capture an entire industry. Free market is a perfect ideal, it can't exist in the real world.
- stetrain 4mo agoThey're all over the place in Mexico City. It'll be interesting as these EVs start to show up along the northern and southern borders traveling within the US.
- corndoge 4mo agoWSJ had a piece on just this recently. https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/chinese-cars-byd-geely-u-s-mexico-be0dea28 https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/chinese-cars-byd-geely-u-...
- mekdoonggi 4mo agoThe sad reality is how politically influential it will be for Americans to take a Chinese EV from the airport to a hotel in Cancun and say, "Why don't we have this in the US?"
- cpursley 4mo agoSaw some in southern Arizona, had to do a double-take.
- dieselgate 4mo agoThat was me with Polestar like 4 years ago but really don't see many of them anymore in the PNW
- jmyeet 4mo agoFor anyone that doesn't know, then president Ronald Reagan signed a bill into law in 1988 that banned all car imports into the US unless the car is at least 25 yaers old. Why? Because US Mercedez-Benz dealers were selling their cars at too high a price and a lot of Americans were importing them directly from Germany. So the dealers associations lobbied Congress for a ban. Country of free markets, by the way.
- altcognito 4mo agoThis is entirely misleading and misinformation -- only those not meeting all applicable Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS).