• @[email protected]
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    362 months ago

    Relatively affordable. It is 20k after the federal discounts and kick backs. Meanwhile, the Chinese EV market has been making cars as low as 4k. https://greenspeedx.com/cheap-electric-cars-available-in-china/

    I’m not a pro China person (because one time in Ark, a Chinese team kept destroying my thatch base), but they seem to have the things. Apparently Mexico is aiming to compete in the EV market as well.

    • SeaJ
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      342 months ago

      If by “the things” you mean underpaid labor, then yes.

    • @[email protected]
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      132 months ago

      Even Europe has a tariff for EVs from China due to government subsidies. So it’s probably not 4K, but it’s also probably less than 25

    • @[email protected]
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      202 months ago

      America used to have the things as well but then there was a civil war and it got banned.

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      92 months ago

      You might ask yourself what it is that allows them to produce and sell a brand new vehicle for $4k, basically the same price as a high-end PC or a couple of high-end smartphones.

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        52 months ago

        I dunno. Isn’t that what we need? Gov subsidy to increase the adoption of ev?

        We might hit the Jevons paradox pretty hard though.

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        22 months ago

        Mostly automation and sensible regulations. Also direct to consumer sales with third party dealerships not really existing for new cars. Also generally a lower cost of living allowing for lower wages and thus lower labor costs for the non automated parts.

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          12 months ago

          Why is it that China is the only country on the planet able to sell new vehicles for this cheap? Surely other countries have automation and sensible regulations too.

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            32 months ago

            They genuinely aren’t, Muerza in South Africa and a variety of other local brands across Africa and Asia have cheap cars.

            China cuts it down further by completely subsidizing education and opening vocational schools near factories that specialize in what those factory owners need, allowing hyper specialization. When you have an entire neighborhood able to produce all the parts of a car, instead of importing parts from across the world and assembling it like us car manufacturers do, you’re able to massively cut costs.

            All manufacturing in china takes this approach of having almost enclaves of specialized knowledge and factories, and is genuinely an engineers wet dream to work in since you can get any part you could possibly want the same day, even if you just designed the part yesterday.