Zaelaa@lemmy.zip to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · edit-212 days agoThe US auto industry is in big trouble. China now makes 75 percent of all electric vehicles sold anywhere on earth. US automakers make around 5 percent. www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square205linkfedilinkarrow-up1607arrow-down113
arrow-up1594arrow-down1external-linkThe US auto industry is in big trouble. China now makes 75 percent of all electric vehicles sold anywhere on earth. US automakers make around 5 percent. www.nytimes.comZaelaa@lemmy.zip to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · edit-212 days agomessage-square205linkfedilink
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 days agoPeople would vote for a government that gave them cheap electric cars. This has nothing to do with needing to win elections, it has to do with pleasing daddy US and daddy doesn’t want the world to stop using oil. Europe is a US neocolony.
minus-squareboonhet@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 days agoHuh? You’d need to raise taxes pretty hard to be able to supply the entire world with cheap EVs. Most countries don’t have that kind of tax base.
People would vote for a government that gave them cheap electric cars. This has nothing to do with needing to win elections, it has to do with pleasing daddy US and daddy doesn’t want the world to stop using oil. Europe is a US neocolony.
Huh? You’d need to raise taxes pretty hard to be able to supply the entire world with cheap EVs. Most countries don’t have that kind of tax base.