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cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/49178
I took my first ride in a Chinese car recently. Not in the U.S., of course, since sky-high tariffs have made them almost impossible to import. I was visiting family in the U.K., and we rented a BYD Sealion SUV. And let me tell you: I saw immediately why American car companies are desperate to have these things kept out of this country. It was elegantly designed, incredibly comfortable, and a smooth ride.
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Any good ones that we can comfortably say weren't build with slave labour? Or which ones have actual power in their unions?
I'd love to check affordable options from them
The funny part of all of this is that EVs don't exist to save the environment, they exist to save car companies. Between the falling birth rates and the necessity to fix the car based infrastructure of cities, this "EV revolution" is a flash in the pan.
The amount of money and infrastructure that China dedicated to POVs will soon be an anchor around their neck as they come to reckon with the fallout of the "One Child" policy. They saw the US model as the method to reach global dominance, and went all in on a model that had alreasy reached the end of its relevance.
