Nearly all major car companies are sabotaging EV transition, and Japan is worst, study finds.
Nearly all major car companies are sabotaging EV transition, and Japan is worst, study finds.
Damning new report finds nearly all major car companies are actively sabotaging world’s efforts to avoid catastrophic global warming, and Japan companies are the worst.
The US has imposed 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs, and the EU is considering increasing its tariffs. I'm sympathetic to the worker/industry protection argument, but many people will look at decent EVs being sold in China for $15,000 & feel they are being cheated.
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net loose
really?
They are produced with literal slaves and sold as a net loose because they want to destroy the competition.
Show me definitive, respected-third-party proof. You talk a lot of confident shit for someone with no evidence. While I'm thinking about it, isn't the whole point of capitalism that if you can't compete, you get destroyed? Sounds like nationalist protectionism to me.
I haven't had time to look into detail, but are the tariffs for complete vehicles only, or for parts (e.g. batteries) too? Any decent links or blogs (preferably not news sites) to get a neutral overview?
Yes it affects parts too, at least batteries. Stifling electric car production isn't enough, ebikes get caught in the crossfire too.
No, slavery and dealing with oppressive totalitarian regimes is never okay.
How do they expect an EV transition with 80% of the companies building them under tariff, and the ones people can afford also under tariff. You need to get product in the hands of the consumer.. I propose that since no US makers are in the under $20k MSRP range for EV then we should relax tariffs on vehicles in that price range. This will get product into consumer hands, keep Chinese car prices down, and ensure GM, and such profits from their nasty huge SUV and trucks.
Delaying EV transition only helps China, a lot.
Haven't they learn anything from Kodak and Sony from the transition to digital camera?
Kodak, a Fortune 500 company, developed one of the first digital camera but refuse to shift away from traditional film business, leading to their downfall.
Sony manufacture the best mobile camera sensor in the early days of smartphone, but refuse to use it in their own smartphone, purposely make their phone take lower quality picture because they afraid it would hurt DSLR sales.
Well, they weren’t wrong on the hurting DSLR sales…
Huh? An industry that has a century or more of R&D is trying to milk every ounce out of their existing workstreams and infrastructure before adopting a new standard?
Who is surprised by this
Yeah Japan lagging pretty far behind on this front, but honestly given the population centers and GDPs of countries around the world it's surprising that the USA and German market shares are as big as they are. Personally, I've been pretty ambivalent about the potential of Volkswagen in this market, I hope they eventually overtake Tesla.
