Over 70 Democrats on Tuesday urged US President Donald Trump to keep Chinese carmakers out of America, warning of “irreversible” consequences, just weeks ahead of his high-stakes trip to Beijing to meet with China’s President Xi Jinping. “We must not cede the American auto industry to a strategic competitor intent on global dominance,” a letter, signed by 73 House Democrats led by US Representative Debbie Dingell, said. “The consequences for American workers, our supply chains, our national…
It would absolutely one shot the American auto industry to have cheap, modern, EVs enter the US market. I have no sympathy for the leadership of these companies nor for the shareholders who selected them. Nor the dealerships who were complicit as market makers. They dragged their feet for a decade and a half, failed to invest in the production lines, market the vehicles, or reform the deeply broken dealership system.
If there was some fundamental consumer reluctance to buy EVs, then why the hell are they lobbying so hard to keep affordable Chinese EVs out of the market? Actions speak louder than words, and all the whinging about how “they tried so hard to make EVs a thing but consumers just didn’t want them” is completely drowned out by the action of banning a competitor who shows up offering exactly what they said consumers didn’t want.
