The Chinese auto worker is paid more than a Mexican one. Difference is the Chinese companies aren’t afraid of automation, and it has given them a financial cushion to develop better cars.

Tariffs aren’t the answer… I’ve seen some of the newer French cars and they look really amazing. They are an example of when companies have to compete in a free market.

Tariffs just hand the Chinese an even larger lead.

This will have the effect of people buying far fewer cars because the options are fewer and far between then moving to micromobility.

Politicians be like

Yeah I find it a ridiculous parallel I recently saw an article that put a number on Chinese EV subsidies and it seemed extremely low compared to the barrels of money we’ve been giving the oil companies.

It is massively clownish though because as the barrier to entry goes up higher everyone will just switch to micromobility which is built mostly by the Chinese

Hosting a forum costs money, and we ain’t got that

So long as they remain open source

I really hope Librewolf will keep on if Mozilla enshittifies

Just let me buy a license then download it wherever I want

I wish they’d get people to verify transit schedules literally the only reason Google maps finds itself on my phone

Palemoon was a thing for a long time before Librewolf and such

Not assembled in America, just in general giving them a low ceiling would be good for the customer, and it wouldn’t directly compete with any of the US automakers gigantic SUV

They are subsidized at a quarter of what we subsidize oil.

This right here… The fact that Xpeng can produce and sell the MONA for $17k should be a wakeup call to US companies. Even just a simple EV without all the bells would be amazing… We don’t want perfect we just want drivable. Legacy needs to focus on overall efficiency in addition so they can squeeze the most range out of smaller battery packs.

My stance on Chinese cars is to have no tariffs on models that are $25kMSRP or less this disincentives them from overly marking them up.