The US has had all the time in the world to develop electric vehicles but decided to self-sabotage multiple times in the name of profits, from GM trashing their EV1s in the 90s to the current trend of the auto companies lobbying for tax credits and then jacking up EV prices to eat up that whole credit and then some. Outsourcing manufacturing wasn’t an issue when US companies could pocket huge profits, but it’s suddenly a problem when it could mean customers get lower prices? Fuck that, bring on the cheap vehicles. Restricting Chinese EVs will do nothing but keep US companies complacent with jacked up prices.
The US has had all the time in the world to develop electric vehicles but decided to self-sabotage multiple times in the name of profits, from GM trashing their EV1s in the 90s to the current trend of the auto companies lobbying for tax credits and then jacking up EV prices to eat up that whole credit and then some. Outsourcing manufacturing wasn’t an issue when US companies could pocket huge profits, but it’s suddenly a problem when it could mean customers get lower prices? Fuck that, bring on the cheap vehicles. Restricting Chinese EVs will do nothing but keep US companies complacent with jacked up prices.