This is a very good question. Western companies are refusing to make the cars we want so china should be able to provide what we want just like Japan did in the past.
What a crock of shit. They’re $15k because the government is paying for the rest of the car, they control the lithium, they don’t give a shit about environmental regulations, and they use slave labor to produce these materials and cars. The only way any other manufacturer in the world can compete with this is if they also do all those things too. If they choose not to commit such atrocities, they’ll go out of business, leaving us completely reliant on Chinese auto manufacturers for all our needs with millions of Americans out of work. This isn’t a “US car” thing. No other country is producing cars in such a manor. US manufacturers only make up 30% of the market here.
This is just a bunch of vapid influences being manipulated and then spreading it to all their followers like a virus. They won’t see anything past the fake cheap price and demand the Walmartification of ever more US manufacturing jobs.
They’re $15k because the government is paying for the rest of the car
The only way any other manufacturer in the world can compete with this is if they also do all those things too
How about just that one thing?
Can you explain in detail how that’s possible for them to accomplish?
Depending on your definition of “possible”:
- Unban kei cars. Cars are cheaper if there’s less car.
- Build more public transport (particularly trains, electric of course) so more people don’t need cars, then tax ICE cars heavily
- Make all greenfield street grids use narrow streets (that means a max width of 6m(20ft) wall-to-wall, for 80% of streets) and over time convert existing grids likewise, which (strongly increases pedestrianism and) encourages any urban car drivers to drive kei cars.
- If most drivers of big cars are rural, then let the big ag subsidies cover it. Although honestly, if urban drivers stop driving cars (and ~80-90% of people are urban (that includes suburban)), then we’re 80-90% of the way there anyway, and the last 10% doesn’t matter.
Point 2 and 3 would require major political buy-in (and they’re also sort of the same step anyway), which strains the definition of possible. But it’s quite financially feasible.
