>Senators Tammy Baldwin, Elissa Slotkin and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer want Trump to prevent Chinese automakers from building vehicles in the U.S. and prevent Chinese cars assembled in Mexico or Canada from ending up here.The trio of weenies cited Trump's January comments where he said he was open to Chinese OEMs building U.S. factories. Of course, the bar is already incredibly high for Chinese automakers to actually exist in the U.S., including a pesky little 100% tariff. But, as American consumers are continually faced with U.S. automakers that are less and less interested in building EVs and shown Chinese EVs that are genuinely brilliant, its hard to stop people's interest. https://www.jalopnik.com/2140965/senators-cry-trump-chinese-evs/
>>28905554Well, fuck the CCP. I'm with them there. Maybe it's something Dems and Trump can finally shake hands on, for a change. They should've done that long ago. Pelosi was one of the few consistent Democrats who has never liked China...but she just hated Trump more.
>>28905554>U.S. automakers that are less and less interested in building EVsTesla exist, and GM developed an entire lineup of BEV platforms that they're sharing with Honda. only Europe and Japan lags behind EV development. everything the chinese learned for their own EVs was just stolen from Tesla.
>>28905564Ford and Volkswagen have their own partnership as well.
America isn't going to be a big market for EVs for a while. The bigger issue with Chinese EVs is competition in South and Central America and Europe. GM is basically abandoning all markets outside North America and Ford is trying to cling onto Europe. >>28905564>GM developed an entire lineup of BEV platforms that they're sharing with Honda.i've got bad news>>28905566it's only a stopgap until Ford has their own platform
>>28905554>U.S. automakers that are less and less interested in building EVshm maybe because they keep losing billions of dollars a year due to lack of demand
>>28905554Nobody's buying Chinese death traps even in Europe. Even for EVs, the top sellers are Tesla, VW and Renault.
>>28905604>n-n-nobodies buyingLOL idiothttps://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/where-chinese-automakers-have-gained-most-ground-europe-2026-02-11/
>>28905609I'll believe it when I actually see them flooding the roads. Chinese companies are scammier than their own government and have inflated numbers through various clever means. The CCP itself has finally cracked down on some of it starting at the end of last year. They get incentives from sales numbers, so they're scamming their own government. It's somewhat like they're scammy real estate practices, where they overbuilt shittons of skyscrapers and apartment buildings through government incentives, without ever having had any promised occupants in the first place.https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2025-09-10/china-cracks-down-on-false-auto-marketing-in-three-month-campaignhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K_oopSeOcMThat all said, the worst thing isn't the false sales, but that Chinese would never provide good service or have the same service infrastructure like Western and Japanese automakers. Not yet at least. The average Chinese doesn't even give a shit about service or repairing THEIR OWN stuff. They just dump everything and buy new shit. They're wasteful people, and as far as service goes, they all scam each other too.
>>28905554China is full of scammers.Why would I want them to scam us and kill our car manufacturing?They'd just fuck us over the minute tye competition is gone
>>28905609Those are some pitiful numbers. Only impressive for Norway but remember 90% of all cars sold in Norway are EVs. Tesla and European brands dominate hugely there. And also consider the fact that most of these "sales" are leases given out for the price of a monthly bus ticket.
>>28905554kys wumao
They're scared of how ugly the chinese evs are
i don't want chinese cars, i don't want evs.not because i hate chinese stuff or their people but because of the wasteful tactics the chinese government employs to make it look like chinese EVs sell in high volume when they really don't. frankly we should be getting on korea's case about it too.EVs shouldn't exist until battery technology matures enough they can be fast charged and not explode. the whole point of EVs is not environmentalism but the ability of the State to control people's mobility. while yes some gas cars have telematics that stop car chases they don't all have that, it's easily removed, and ultimately the government cannot stop suck-squeeze-bang-blow from occurring even if they control the fuel supply. electric cars are not only laden with telematics by their very nature but the government controls power generation and delivery. even in the us where electric power companies are independent entities and not arms of the state the government has the last say in whether or not they can operate. on the other hand the oil companies have their hands down the governments pants.
>>28906320"The evil government is trying to control my mobility!" says man who hasn't traveled more than 50 miles from his house in his entire life. The whole point is stupid anyway. Sure it's inconvenient to have to stop at superchargers every 300 miles if you wanted to drive very far but you're stopping at gas stations too. If the government really wanted to limit your mobility, then they would just stop selling gas. Or maybe that's too obvious, so they would just make gas exorbitantly expensive so that people can't afford to drive frivolously... hey wait a minute...
>>28906331>says man who hasn't traveled more than 50 miles from his house in his entire life.just in the past year i've driven across the us and back twice, and am currently about 2000 miles from where my car is actually registered
>>28906337Sure. You also probably need to drive over a mountain every day in the freezing cold and tow 20k lbs all the time too. So many people on 4chan conveniently live lives that feel almost designed to be incompatible with EVs.
Democrats don't want non-union Chinese factories opening up that they can't control, and of course domestic brands don't want to compete. Trump for once is being correct in wanting Chinese brands to build factories here to sell them, but I am skeptical if he will go further and then demand them to not pull any of the same tricks they do elsewhere when it comes to "their" factories (flooding the area with Chinese immigrants and then only staffing the factory with said immigrants)
>>28906337also in my gas car i only have to stop every 500 miles and filling up takes mere minuteselectric cars invariably hamper the ability to go wherever you want whenever you want, because the state governmens don't want their gerrymandered voting districts depopulated, nor does the federal government want state demographics to change because it makes it harder to pretend the candidate with less votes actually won if they can't mathematically predict the outcome.it's not restricting freedoms for shits and giggles they're trying to keep their little dog and pony shows going as long as possible.
>>28906343>So many people on 4chan conveniently live lives that feel almost designed to be incompatible with EVs.the average american life is incompatible with EVsjust today i had to drive from farmington nm, to santa fe nm, a 300+ mile round trip. i completed it in 6 hours on one tank with just a splash n dash to assure i'd get home.if i had an ev i'd have had to charge in santa fe which is full of vagrants and i'd probably have been mugged or shot and my new expensive ev full of valuable electronic scrap stolen and stripped. my gas car was in and out.
>>28906344I'll take the chink immigrants over american labor, every car made in america is shittier than a car made abroad and brought to the US. You don't even need to believe me, you can see if yourself. Look at the Rav4, a car that is made either in Kentucky or Canada depending on the model, except for the plug-in hybrind, which is made in Japan, Put one of those beside a normal Rav 4 and it's like night and day how much better the plug in hybrid looks, even in pictures, go look up dealer listing and look at them side by side, even in the low res quality pict of a dealership image gallery the plug-in hybrid will just look better. And they're literally the same car.For another example, go look up the Mazda CX-30, which is made in Mexico, vs the Mazda CX-5, which is manufactured in Hiroshima and brought here, the CX-30 will look worse. You have no idea why, the cars are identical except from the back, but you can tell, the CX-30 is lower quality just from the pictures alone.
>>28906351You're not the average. The average American only drives about 15k miles a year.
>>28905573>lack of demandSustained $4/gal gasoline ought to swing this. You still have a cap issue with renters who can't get residential electricity prices, but that is what it is. Bring back (or even increase) the tax credit/rebate along with further cost reductions (or cheapo models) for EVs, and it'll tick up.
>>28906360t. Chang
>>28905554Good. I'd prefer to share the road with as few chinese death traps as possible.
>>28906361That is simply not true. Especially in the southwest where major population centers are hundreds of miles apart. I know people who live in Farmington and work in Durango, CO which is 50 miles away. They do 100 mile trips daily.New Yorkers and Los Angeleans are not typical Americans.
>>28905554https://www.jpg.wtf/jx468k.mp4
