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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

https://www.wired.com/story/china-conquers-mexican-automotive-market-and-the-us-is-worried/

deng-salute

State department hand wringing that China is going to use the US trade agreements as they were designed is chefs-kiss

I fully expect them to redo these with "except china" clauses.

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[-] [email protected] 103 points 10 months ago

Entire world is showing how much they want cheap evs. US automakers: check out this truck

[-] [email protected] 60 points 10 months ago

Chevy: "Introducing the Chevy Bolt, the best electric vehicle made in the US!" Also Chevy: "fuck you, we're discontinuing it, buy a truck"

[-] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

Not taking up for GM, just sayin: Bolt is coming back with their newer battery platform. I think it's launching with the 2025 year model

[-] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

Bringing it back as a crossover SUV, and they're dropping Android Auto/CarPlay so they can datamine you harder and have more data to sell.

eco-porky Enshittification rules!

[-] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

Jesus christ, everything is a fucking SUV in the US.

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[-] [email protected] 91 points 10 months ago

Forcing a cold war that doesn't need to exist and that the rest of the world wants no part in, only results your "enemy" working with other nations? shocked-pikachu

[-] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago

It’s them or me!

No wait

[-] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

When all you have is a hammer…

[-] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago

all you need is a sickle?

[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Hey! I spent $15000 on this hammer. You better believe in going to use it!

[-] [email protected] 89 points 10 months ago

God, I would HATE IT SO MUCH if I could buy a cheap electric car. I'm SO FUCKIN WORRIED GUYS!

[-] [email protected] 59 points 10 months ago

I too wish the free market was actually free sometimes. I want a small, cheap, efficient car like literally every other country in the world produces.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

I use protectionism as a huge talking point so much.

“We like to claim we’re all about free market, but the US is a very protectionist country and even then only to capital, the idea of protectionism for workers like affordable college or stopping companies from shipping jobs overseas is seen as profane but workers are not allowed to outsource where they consume.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

Real talk, I'm strongly considering buying a used EV on the cheap. Trying to suss out which platforms are the likeliest to have a longer lifespan. I think circa 2019 Bolts are in my sweet spot of affordability and best chance of holding up longer term. I'd love to find one with 20-40k miles on it.

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[-] [email protected] 75 points 10 months ago

so what youre saying is i should go to mexico to buy an EV

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Wouldn't you face problems with importing and registering it in the USA?

[-] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Probably not, no, I think you could just drive it across the border, if it's only one. The Chinese cars aren't illegal here they are just subject to a 100% tariff. I'm talking out of my ass though so take it for what it's worth

Edit: I forgot about the safety standards. Wouldn't want anyone getting hurt. Better stick to the cybertruck for now

[-] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

you absolutely cannot do this

[-] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

B-b-but what about the free market liberty-weeping

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Can you just keep it registered in mexico somehow? I live near the border and see mexican plates pretty often

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

You'd probably have to pay a fuckton of fees to get it registered at one of the state DMVs in the US. Sadly probably too expensive/ too much of a pain in the ass to be worth it

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[-] [email protected] 73 points 10 months ago

Mexico please sell me an affordably priced EV that you obtained from China, I promise I won't tell Uncle Sam where you got it.

[-] [email protected] 62 points 10 months ago

USA finding out that for as much as it used capitalism to advance the USA's interests capitalism was using the USA to advance capitalism's interests just a little bit more.

Dang, sorry dudes. ancrap

[-] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago

The genesis of Deng Xiaoping thought is recognizing that these bastards would sell their grandmothers for a nickel

[-] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

today we have innovated and financialized it to where we can lease out grandmothers on a subscription basis

download our new app Eldr

[-] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

I thought this was so funny that it deserved a comment in addition to an upvote. Go you :)

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[-] [email protected] 60 points 10 months ago

Flood of immigrant EVs over southern border threatens US billionaire manchild's job

[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Billionario trabajos banditos :mex-sicko:

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[-] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago

How dare you command the loyalty of our great beast?!?!

[-] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

If this reaches some arbitrary threshold of manufacturing above that which US capital is comfortable with they will begin restricting and rewriting what “free trade” means

[-] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Altering NAFTA and telling Mexico to "pray we don't alter it further"? Wouldn't put it past them.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

All the free trade propaganda stems from a time when imperialist powers depended on it to steamroll native industries in the periphery. Of course, it was associated with all the liberty freedom democracy propaganda, so once it no longer became preferable and even enabled the possibility of the reverse happening, they have to materially oppose it, but still wax poetic about it to please their bootlickers and sycophants.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

I forsee a renegotiation of nafta that has "China bad" clauses, also more discipline of labour, as a treat

[-] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

I believe it's now "CUMSA"

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago

Shame that it'll be next to impossible to get one of those up here

[-] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

Not if they build the factories in Mexico!

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

I never looked into it... but now I'm wondering if there are POV style vehicles that you legally aren't allowed to get registered at the DMV?

Could there be a federal regulation or 50 states worth of state regulation that prohibits the import, sale, and registration of certain makes/models of vehicles?

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

This is the likely outcome. China would still make most of the parts, and they'll be assembled in Mexico. It's going to destroy US and Canada auto manufacturing. ... I live in Canada, and the writing is on the wall. Our entire economy relies on housing market go up. Canada is going to be 'third world' in 20 years. Pockets of good services surrounded by utter poverty.... I had brown outs this weekend. I live in a population center.

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

At first i just read "China conquers Mexico" and was like "Please do Poland now"

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