Posted on 10/31/2021 5:56:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Might be kinda hard with no place to charge them.
Just follow the rate of charging stations to watch this trend.
I will never drive an electric car, especially one made in china. And I will never use public transportation.
The proposed increase of the EV credit to $12,500 only applies to union made vehicles.
At least it does today.
May the F150 never curse out roads again. Found On Road Dead.
The Chinese do indeed buy Chinese made autos, but there’s some small amount of aspirational buying of foreign nameplates. For a population the size of China’s, there are surprisingly few sales, even before the chip shortage that hasn’t seemed to slow down Tesla.
Other foreign brands are for the most part joint ventures, e.g. Great Wall gets engines and components and some design help from Japan and Australia.
Samsung used to make some of its phones in China, but closed the last of its plants there after Samsung sales fell to 2% of the Chinese market. Must be all those crap Chinese phones hurt their business. About half of Samsung’s phone manufacturing is in Vietnam now, and will probably stay there until they can expand in India (which is currently the other half) or until China overruns Vietnam.
Most computers not built for the Chinese market are built in Taiwan, Malaysia, and elsewhere in SE Asia, with some final assembly done for some models and mostly minor brands done in the US (Apple, Lenovo, four others).
Chipmakers are mostly in China (not sure how much of that figure is actually Taiwan), with much of the rest in the US.
There are going to be a lot of other stocks in companies going down sharply besides the auto makers and it has NOTHING to do with EVs from China. Hide and watch, wait and see.
GM plans a buildout of 40,000 charging stations in support of its planned auto and truck models, starting next year.
IOW, the gubmint will save a fortune, but the Demagogic Party will still look good at the ballot box.
Not if I'm driving.
I would never trust any electric vehicle, and will never own one.
If it’s from china, will you be able to get parts for it?
I’ll let you know.
I guarantee I will be right in the middle of it when it starts bidding.
NOOO. We aren’t going to give our car market to Red China.
;>)
Pittance amount for charging points and likely cost subsidized by the taxpayer. Do they have a universal charging port yet? I.e. going to be vhs and Betamax like capability wars for EVs?
Profits may be up a little, but companies run by smart managers will be a little shy about crowing to the shareholders for fear of a "congressional investigation into price-gouging". The transportation industry has relied on deliveries to California, but the gig-economy restrictions caused by that simpleminded bitch in the Cali Assembly will continue to force traffic south, through the Panama Canal, to Jacksonville FL and other east coast ports to accommodate our Chinese imports.
There are a variety of different connectors, and with the huge buildout of Tesla chargers there are loads of adapters for the convenience of the non-Tesla EV drivers.
But electric cars suck?
Get a $500 Whooptie,
keep oil in it, don’t let it overheat, drive it til the wheels fall off.
Then get another one.
They’re everywhere.
Why spend all that money on a golf cart?
Chinese crap.
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