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I'm super conflicted about this. I want cheap EVs, but at the same time, China is intentionally dumping their prices to kill competition so they can later jack it up.
It won't matter how fair things were if we are all dead.
I mean, EVs are not going to save the earth. Investments/innovations into our infrastructures will.
Nuclear power is the only thing currently that can save us. Unfortunately, we have ill-informed people not understanding what nuclear is.
I just posted this article separately, but renewables and particularly solar combined with better storage are enough to save us. https://powering-the-planet.ghost.io/untitled-3/
That's the problem. Storage. Current battery tech just doesn't scale. Nuclear fills those gaps for night time and cloudy days.
We literally can just run 100% electric right now with zero emissions today if the world went nuclear. We already have the tech today. It's scalable today.
No need to wait to develop new battery tech. Our future is in our hands right now.
They'll ignore this because it doesn't fit their narrative of one capitalist owning all the means of power. Cool article though!
I still want my nuclear car GM!
Nuclear can power hydrogen generators that power a hydrogen car.
Don't even need to make any nasty batteries from cobalt. Or mine for lithium.
So, what is nuclear?
Everyone buying cheap new cars isn't going to be the thing that saves us.
No single thing short of abolishing the entire US Military (the singles largest polluter in the world) isn't going to be the thing to save is. It's about taking ALL the steps you can to make the world able to be saved. Not a great lens to evaluate personal decisions bases on if it solves the whole problem right away or not.
Arguing for everyone to go out and scrap their current car just to buy a new one isn't going to do anything for emissions. You realize building a new car creates more pollution than just buying or using one that already exists right?
The commenter above is claiming that we're all going to die if we can't all go buy a new Chinese EV for $10k, which is absurd and counterproductive to reducing emissions.
Literally no one said that everyone should get a new car.
No they're saying market fairness doesn't matter if you end up dead from climate change. Like the roughly 250,000 people a year who's deaths can be attributed to it. Climate change is already on track to kill us, we need to actively stop it, no one thinks not being able to buy a Chinese car is going to kill them. It's the thing that's already killing them that we want to stop. A cheaper EV gives those who would otherwise be buying another ICE car a better option. They shouldn't have to wait for arbitrary reasons to be able to make greener choices.
What other conclusion can you get from a comment like this? "We're all dead unless we can all get our hands on these cheap Chinese EVs." We can't drive two cars at once meaning we must get rid of our current vehicles, no?
Who's going to be able to purchase these cars if hundreds of thousands/millions of union workers lose their job due to these Chinese subsidies undercutting everyone else? That has a cascading effect on the rest of the economy if you weren't familiar with similar scenarios happening in the past like when the housing market was manipulated by banks handing out ARM loans to everyone in 2007. If you think this is all about American protectionism, why is Europe imposing the same tariffs on China for the very same reason? They're much more accepting of climate change policy and taking steps toward a greener future. Perhaps they also see something that you're not here.
The opposite of dumping is happening. For example the Kia EV5 is sold at [$20k in China](https://electrek.co/2023/11/17/kia-launches-20k-ev5-electric-suv-china-rival-tesla-model-y/) while the same made in China model is sold overseas [Starting at $46k](https://electrek.co/2024/04/04/kia-set-to-export-this-all-electric-suv-at-a-price-that-undercuts-tesla/)
KIA is also dumping. Those prices are not sustainable. Doesn't make it right if others are doing it.
Well at least whatever profit Kia can't make in China due to the low price. They can hopefully gain back from markets outside China thanks to the lack of competition driving prices down.