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I'm happy for China to pay for my car.
I know long term they want to kill off other car manufacturers. But so does Tesla, and gm, and every other manufacturer. If they ever get to that size, we could consider import taxes that equakise the market. At the moment, we need competition and scale.
We need FAIR competition. Subsidized products are not fair competition.
Starting a car company is not ever going to be a business anyone can set up. We've moved past that. Trslaz for instance, survived on subsidies for many years. I agreed we want fair competition. However, more than competition, we need mass market electric cars to reduce carbon emissions and drive the network effect of charging stations.
When there are multiple established companies, then we can worry about how fair the competition is. Otherwise, we'll end up with a fair market that has no competition and lots more pollution.
If you let a company, that is subsidized by a foreign government, sell goods at below cost you won't have multiple established companies.
So, do you think Tesla's should be banned worldwide? Or does it just refer to Chinese companies?
What alternative strategy for increasing electric uptake would you propose. Currently the biggest 2 barriers to entry are price and in many areas, range concerns. Having higher uptake of cheap subsidied cars alleviates both, which is why there remains government subsidies available for certain vehicles.
Should those subsidies vehicles also lose their subsidy?
Unfortunately, you're either dishonest or an idiot with poor reading comprehension. I think it's the former. The words you decided to ignore were "below cost". BYD sells a car for $10k, alternatively Tesla's cheapest car is around $40k. If you can't understand the difference, then I can't help you.
And you're likely both. There is no need to jump to insults just because we disagree. I'm not going to further the discussion at this point.
If below cost was your main point, perhaps don't wait 5-10 comments in. The points that you raised up to that point we addressed in my initial comment.
Learn to make your point more effectively and perhaps you'll come across as less foolish and less abrasive when online.
My apologies, you are an idiot. Below cost was literally contained in my first comment, I haven't even made 5 comments, let alone 10.
How ineffective of me to clearly state the point you failed to comprehend in my first post. Luckily being right means I don't have to concern myself with being abrasive to idiots.
Funny, because that's exactly what both BYD and Tesla are, that are now the 2 biggest EV makers in the world. And Polestar was started by previous Volvo employees. Fisker is started by a car designer. There are probably more examples, so in short you are making an argument from ignorance.
But there ARE multiple established companies already, yet you say we should still accept unfair competition? But anyways it can never make sense, unfair competition always end up hurting customers exactly by making the number of competitors fewer not more, and forces otherwise competitive companies out of business.
Your stance simply doesn't make any sense in any way, and will hurt both consumers and tax payers long term.
Strange that nobody complained when Tesla got the subsidies.
Germany also subsidies it's car makers.
I don't agree with subsidies long term, but car manufacturing is not an industry that anyone can start up. It needs capital. Governments can provide that, at least initially.
And if government is going to supply capital, I'm happy to get a cheaper product that is paid by another government. In this case byd is providing the needed competition. Without them Tesla were outgrowing everyone, thanks to previous market distortion. It's just sour grapes at this point.