• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 hours ago

    Mostly the main reason

    Apart from not being true, that doesn’t even make grammatical or mathematical sense 😄

    That and state subsidies to kill the foreign car market with long term goals

    Except that goes both ways, with Europe and the US subsidizing their automakers and disadvantaging the Chinese ones just as much if not even more.

    Someone always suffers with capitalism.

    True.

    Even state capitalism

    Also true, although protectionism ≠ state capitalism.

    Capitalism is a philosophy/ideology where the maximum accumulation of capital possible is held up as the main goal of existence.

    Protectionism DOESN’T maximize the capital of the state, or the majority of the people residing in it, only the companies benefitting from it and the politicians they bribe.

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      8 hours ago

      Europe and the US generally pay subsidies for EV purchases, not production.

      If you buy a Chinese EV in most countries with an EV subsidy, you get two subsidies: the Chinese one for production and the local one for purchasing.

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        3 hours ago

        That’s kind of the point though, no?

        Why aren’t US or other non-chinese car makers making more electric cars to compete?

        Instead they take oil money to keep combustion engines around as the primary. Despite companies like Ford having been subsidised by the government to still exist with no real requirements.

        Most countries have come all the told it needed to be able to do this and refused to adapt at the same time.

        I’m the end it’s a race for the bottom which just sucks…

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          2 hours ago

          Most countries don’t subsidise goods sold into other countries. It’s literal economic warfare.

          Most companies also have plenty of EV offerings. They’re just not as popular as ICE counterparts yet.