• Mavvik@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    This argument makes no sense, BYD offers compact cheap EVs, a product Ford does not produce. If there is no market demand for that, then tariffs serve no purpose. If there is market demand but the companies refuse to fill that niche, then why are we protecting them?

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      5 months ago

      BYD offers compact cheap EVs, a product Ford does not produce.

      That Ford (and GM and whatever Chrysler calls themselves now) chooses not to produce.

      There is a market for affordable EV commuter cars, and the north American industry chooses not to address that market because they seem to prefer to produce land yachts and mall assault vehicles.