This upcoming competition means that it’s incredibly important for US makers to figure out how to profitably make inexpensive electric vehicles, instead of merely focusing on the biggest most expensive trucks and SUVs
All that headline accomplished for me is getting Miley Cyrus stuck in my head… :/
Oh no, the single most powerful corporate industry of the twentieth century, who had EVs thirty years ago, and so horribly mismanaged everything the taxpayers were forced to give them billions of bailout money, is gonna be hurt by affordable cars people want.
Oh boo fucking hoo. You fucked around for a century. Eat shit.
This is true, but companies also have workers, who support communities. Those that fucked around will not be those finding out, even if their portfolios perform poorly.
Oh no! The Mexican workers building domestic cars will now be building Chinese cars!
If the companies gave a shit about the workers we wouldn’t be having this discussion either. We’d have EVs the workers built instead of clinging desparately to ICE and petroleum.
They don’t give a shit. Detroit already showed that decades ago. Why are they being intractable assholes about producing a good affordable EV? Well, the answer’s in the question - they’re intractable assholes.
It’s so funny and sad watching rich shitheads argue through their propaganda machines.
First its, EV cars aren’t selling!
Then it’s, yes they are! Here’s what’s really happening!
Now it’s, oh no here comes chinas cheap shit cars coming to destroy americas non existent ev cars!
What’s next?
Beheadings.
Electric vehicles are a means to reduce climate harm, nothing more. Anybody who thinks this is about making money doesn’t get it. Whats crazy is that we have a collapsing ecosystem, and climate, and we’re all still collectively shrugging about it and worrying about money.
When large parts of India and the equator are no longer livable, we aren’t gonna be worrying about how expensive electric cars are anymore.
This is a distraction…
Human beings are genetically wired to avoid problems until the last possible moment when they have to mobilize. The situation will have to get much worse before people actually take climate change seriously. It’s unfortunate, but that’s what we are.
Good thing when things get much worse we are completely boned.
Cars are not a part of an environmentally sustainable future.
Be my guest to start the trend of getting hundreds to hundreds of thousands of people living in walkable and bikeable areas. Right now, at least in the U.S., that’s not how the country is set up right now.
