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Americans Can’t Buy Chinese EVs. Waymo Is Importing Thousands
(www.forbes.com)
Remember. Waymo is Google.
- Paywall
- As the article says, Americans can buy them, but you'll have to pay 127.5% Republican tariffs.
No no, China pays the tariffs.
I know, because I live in a gutter and huff jenkem
This isn’t a clever loophole – – this is Trump making sure that only billionaires can profit, and the rest of us are all fucked
Only his billionaire bosses can profit. Lol
It doesn't actually seem that way. They're likely eating the tariff because of the costs of hardware redesign, which I would imagine to cost millions and a lot of testing time.
If they're getting a volume discount of 10%, then after tarrif each vehicle is probably cheaper than a whole refab.
Monopsony
Learned a new word today! 🥳
All of the cost, none of the equity. Just as capitalism demands.
Distributed burden, with the profits for the few.
What did we do with the railroad barons again? And where’s their privatised cutting-edge tech??
"Free enterprise for me and none for thee."
yeah... sure... so very worried about "national security" that security risks can only be used by government employees, big corporations, and in federal buildings but not in private homes... yeah sure... that's secure. Really feeling the security of the nation here... NOT.
Yup no $8k economy cars.. You'll buy that$30,000 truck and like it
New trucks are like $100K
Yeah it's the compact economy cars that are $30,000.
FREEDUMB.
silly goose, corporations make their own rules
In this case, corporations have the exact same rules as the everyday man: you can import Chinese EVs for a 127.5% tariff. Waymo is doing exactly that, just as you can.
The title of the article (that Americans can't buy Chinese EVs buy Waymo can) is refuted by the very first paragraph of the same article.
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Just like Waymo, you pay a 127.5% tariff. Americans can buy Chinese EVs; the title is simply a lie that is refuted by the very first paragraph of the exact same article.
At least til recently, Waymo here in California was using modified Jaguars. IDK if they started out as Jaguar EV's or if they were ICE cars converted by Waymo. But they are everywhere in SF and also seen in other parts of the region.
They are Jaguar I-Pace EVs. They were natively EV to begin with. Waymo actually purchased large chunks of them through 2026, but with Jaguar basically committing suicide they needed another vehicle to work with.
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