Tesla to score Chinese electric car ban over national security as BYD dismisses soft US EV market

[Redaktion]

The White House is prepping to do with Chinese electric cars what it did to Chinese cell phones in the US. The world's largest EV maker said the planned Mexican factory is for the local market.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Tesla-to-score-Chinese-electric-car-ban-over-national-security-as-BYD-dismisses-soft-US-EV-market.809479.0.html

[Green1]

When you can't beat them, ban them!
Wouldn't want to actually have to compete on merit would we?

[NikoB]

Merit and competition should be market-based, not sponsored by a totalitarian state that takes public money, steals it from taxpayers and redirects it to where it benefits the autocrats and totalitarian powerful classes.

Although is there a "market" country in the world today? I don't know this one.

All countries today are essentially totalitarian socialist countries, including the USA. In which organized criminal groups rule, the facade of which is served by populist politicians and corrupt officials, as well as various pseudo-civil institutions that do not have any principles or decency, but are able to deftly manipulate the opinion of the stupid population - most of it.

And all are duplicitous in their public declarations, in contrast to their real intentions and actions.

For a decent and principled person, existence in such a world quickly leads to obvious cognitive dissonance - after all, young people from nurseries to universities are told one thing - but in life they see the exact opposite, carefully hidden by plausible intentions.

So the US is doing what it can. And China will do what it can. And in the end, the one who has more intelligence, not more people, will win...

[KevinParker372]

Strange, because there is zero EV infrastructure in Mexico. Completely none. No public chargers (other than tesla), no charging at hotels, very little solar use...

In reality Pemex (the state owned oil company) is the most in-debt in the world... They have a vested interest in keeping Mexico dependent on oil, despite its ease of being a solar leader.

[NikoB]

In poor countries, people drive what really benefits them, and not what is imposed by an agenda or when sponsored through unfair redistribution of taxes. And in any case, they are not able to buy and service electric cars en masse. And no one in a poor country will build infrastructure for this and increase the production of electricity, especially "green" ones. Nobody needs this except a bunch of snickering elitists. Therefore, in developing countries, they always used internal combustion engines, and will continue to do so, with the exception of local kleptocrats.

Electric cars in the general balance on the planet are no better than internal combustion engines, only from the point of view of the local ecology of cities, where conventional cars lead to monstrous smog. Rich ellois create a paradise for themselves, thinking that they can isolate themselves from the problems of environmental damage in developing countries, where batteries are made for them, or rather the most dangerous part for their production, as well as other components.

All such green "progress" comes from the transfer of dirty industries to developing countries, but this effect is illusory, because environmental damage there eventually comes like a boom to everyone without exception, because the planet is the same for everyone, both the poor and the rich.

It is necessary to develop public transport to the maximum in densely populated areas, and not selfish private transport, when one car with 4 seats carries one fat a** every day from point A to point B and back. And senseless trips should simply be stopped - only if there is an extreme justification for the need to be together for some reason. Private transport needs a red light if its transport efficiency is less than 75% (at least 3 people per car). But this again leads to a decline in the freedoms of the population. But what the hell is the difference now? After what happened in 2020?

[lmao]

byd is ready to sell you a car, but they are not ready to provide you with a full quality service network and spare parts dealerships. their market is developing countries and 3rd world, where they can quickly saturate market with cheap-ish EVs, ditch their maintenance and quickly release new models
usa with their customer protection and all the 1st world 'stuff' will not let them do this, so mexican factory always was for latin america, not usa

[lmao]

selfish private transport, when one car with 4 seats carries one fat a**

so you also don't have a car lol