OK, let’s Go – so will you lobby to open up US markets to Chinese EVs?
Because I’d love to buy American but you guys have deliberately been screwing us and destroying our children’s future since the mid 90s, so why should we have to take whatever crap you are willing to dribble out?
I need a new vocabulary for how to describer her since I’ve pledged to stop disrespecting weasels.
Mary properly brings up government incentives but GM has also played this game. I recall a time when GM (and the big three) began making some of their vehicles heavier because the Reagan administration introduced a rule exempting vehicles heavier than 6,000 pounds from emission restrictions and fuel efficiency standards. These vehicles made more money for their shareholders, but since they were also gas guzzlers, this action drove many customers into the waiting arms of Japanese and Korean manufacturers.
p.s. I just dropped this into the co-pilot text box associated with my Edge browser: “generate a chart of the 5 most popular automobile brands in California each year for the past 20 years”. Toyota and Honda are almost always at the top, with Tesla popping into number two based upon government incentives. Since the US federal EV incentive just ended, I suspect Tesla will fall out of the top 5.