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minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day ago BYD would be my full EV choice, but you know, American *“free trade market Saw a BYD in the wild a few months ago. Mexican family had driven it up into Texas on family road trip. I got to see the interior. All the extra features. Drives like a dream. It blows out Tesla’s back walls. They’ll never let you buy one in the states
minus-squareD_Tom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoI figured lol. We’ll get an Amazon version.
minus-squarePolisheocket@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoI hope next president isn’t an ass hole and lets this into the country for sale
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 day agoDemocrats are, if it’s even possible, more beholden to the domestic auto industry than Republicans. We are never getting a president who will let Chinese EVs into the US.
minus-squarePolisheocket@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 hours agoI was talking to my dad about this, not only is it tons of jobs that the automakers provide, during war time and other extreme times such as covid, automakers can transition to making other things such as ventilators at a rapid pace.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 minutes agoManufacturing capacity at a domestic level is great. But when you consider what they’re manufacturing? If it’s all gas guzzling super trucks during a petroleum shortage? Who benefits?
Saw a BYD in the wild a few months ago. Mexican family had driven it up into Texas on family road trip.
I got to see the interior. All the extra features. Drives like a dream. It blows out Tesla’s back walls.
They’ll never let you buy one in the states
I figured lol. We’ll get an Amazon version.
I hope next president isn’t an ass hole and lets this into the country for sale
Democrats are, if it’s even possible, more beholden to the domestic auto industry than Republicans.
We are never getting a president who will let Chinese EVs into the US.
I was talking to my dad about this, not only is it tons of jobs that the automakers provide, during war time and other extreme times such as covid, automakers can transition to making other things such as ventilators at a rapid pace.
Manufacturing capacity at a domestic level is great.
But when you consider what they’re manufacturing? If it’s all gas guzzling super trucks during a petroleum shortage? Who benefits?