• @[email protected]
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    335 months ago

    On the other hand, with more money going to the US alternatives, there’s more potential for a US company to step into that niche once it’s open.

    Not that it’ll necessarily happen obviously, but it does make it a bit easier at least.

    Also, I feel like I should add the disclaimer of “I’m not American.” I wish I could show my country next to my username or something lol.

    • Ghostalmedia
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      415 months ago

      Problem is that, especially with the automakers, is that a lack of competition becomes an excuse to not invest in innovation. For example, General Motors is throwing billions into stock buy-backs, when they probably should be throwing that into EVs.

      • @[email protected]
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        75 months ago

        Competition doesn’t really exist anymore. Instead, via regulatory capture, the big players simply change the rules to exclude competition.

      • @[email protected]
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        65 months ago

        Yeah, that’s the stuff that makes this difficult. I can talk all day about what “makes sense”, but you throw one corporate executive into the mix and everything falls apart.

    • @[email protected]
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      145 months ago

      That only works if you have competition. We don’t really have free markets. The consolidation is so extreme that auto makers for example really don’t care if consumers want a high value budget EV. Why should they? They can make you collectively buy something else when you need a car to get to work.

    • @[email protected]
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      65 months ago

      I wish I could show my country next to my username or something lol.

      You could use a vanity username with a flag emoji in it, if you really wanted to.

      • @[email protected]
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        15 months ago

        Not sure if I’m able to change my username (and too lazy to check right now), but that’s honestly not a bad plan.

    • @Maggoty
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      35 months ago

      Yeah they aren’t going to invest in their product. They don’t have any reason to now. They’re now the best product you can buy and they raised the price to reflect that.

    • k_rol
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      35 months ago

      You could register to your local Lemmy server, if there is one.

        • @[email protected]
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          45 months ago

          And there are plenty of non-Canadians on it too, like me from America. It’s a pretty big instance, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there are more non-Canadians than Canadians.

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      25 months ago

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    • @[email protected]
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      25 months ago

      I have yet to see that happen. If anything they’ll just raise their prices because they no longer have any competitors.