HarryLime [any]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 days agoI wonder if being the world's most famous groyper has consequences when you own an electric car companyhexbear.netimagemessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1130arrow-down10
arrow-up1130arrow-down1imageI wonder if being the world's most famous groyper has consequences when you own an electric car companyhexbear.netHarryLime [any]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square35fedilink
minus-squareAdkml [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·9 days agoAMERICAN car manufacturers are doing that. Which is why we have to have 100% tarries on Chinese EVs. Because they’d kill like two or three different domestic markets. They’d be the most popular electric car, most popular sedan and most popular commuter vehicle.
minus-squareAntiwork [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 days ago💯 the tariffs aren’t even the issue. You could sell Chinese EVs at the same cost as everything else and they still would be #1. It’s that they still aren’t street legal.
minus-squareAdkml [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·9 days agoBecause we are very careful to make sure they aren’t street legal through legislation. The fucking cybertruck is street legal, giant pick up trucks with blind spots lager than children are street legal.
AMERICAN car manufacturers are doing that.
Which is why we have to have 100% tarries on Chinese EVs.
Because they’d kill like two or three different domestic markets.
They’d be the most popular electric car, most popular sedan and most popular commuter vehicle.
💯 the tariffs aren’t even the issue. You could sell Chinese EVs at the same cost as everything else and they still would be #1. It’s that they still aren’t street legal.
Because we are very careful to make sure they aren’t street legal through legislation.
The fucking cybertruck is street legal, giant pick up trucks with blind spots lager than children are street legal.