Whatever makes the O&G industry more money, eh?

Spice must flow

That’s what pisses me off here, I just want something affordable to get from a-b work commute, I’m not spending $80k on an electric suv that I only have because I’m forced into work.

It’s gonna end up with me buying a moped or small motorcycle to get to work at reasonable cost

Yeah, cause now the cheap competitor they could compare to just got pricier so that means they can also raise prices

Not if they use that money to subsidise American EV's.

There’s no incentive for US automakers to build cheaper EVs from this. This is just protectionism which is fine when China is subsidizing their production past the point of profitability, but this will still work against making American EVs more affordable.

Didn’t US companies that were making EV raise their prices as soon as the government added or increased buyer incentive rebates?

The greedy assholes basically pocketed the rebate while the consumer got nothing.

So IMO these manufacturers will just pocket a significant chunk of the subsidy and pass little of the savings on to the consumer. Already many of them claim financial woes, it’s no stretch for them to soak up the cash and say “but we had to…” and get no punishment because the administration doesn’t want to kill the industry it’s trying to support. I mean, $55bn pay packages have to come from somewhere, right?

AFIK, all the subsides for EVa in the US already require them to be made and produced domestically.

And the environment! It's double whammy of an American policy

I predict Trump will make a day-one promise to remove this tariff calling it terrible, just terrible.

Or Mexico. And honestly I’m fine with that. Create some jobs outside of China for a change.

And China isn’t trying to manipulate the market? These Chinese cars are all sold at loss.