• silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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    16 days ago

    Actually they’re spread across the US, Canada, and Mexico, with parts crossing borders many times during the course of manufacture. All this does is make the whole system in North America non-viable. So Chinese manufacturers will take over the world market, and Americans will be left with inferior overpriced options like Soviet citizens in the 1980s

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      Now tell us what happens when the world is transitioning to new vehicle technologies with a US company in the lead …. But the Chinese government encourages building out the infrastructure, supply chain and manufacturing while the US government backtracks on the transition, leave it most profitable to stick with old technologies and build cars unsuitable for any other country?