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Tariffs on China aren't the way to win the EV arms race – getting serious on EVs is (electrek.co)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/evs

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And you can't even use the human slave labor argument, because the US cannot get children into factories fast enough apparently.

A few factories, none of them owned by US manufacturers, non of them unionized.

It's also impossible to sell for the same prices as Chinese manufacturers without the shit load of subsidies they get and underpaid labor from beginning to end.

People want workers to have good conditions and to lower the carbon footprint of the things they buy, but are unwilling to pay the price that comes with it and would rather buy crap made by workers that are basically slaves halfway across the world instead.