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I mean... it sounds boring from the outside, and doesn’t sound any different from most of the current crop of performance sedans and etc that all pump noise into the cabin because the engines themselves sound mediocre at best lol.

They’re passing European crash tests with full marks, I don’t see why they wouldn’t pass US crash tests with minor modifications to meet regulations (like the stupid amber turn signals and etc) since that’s what every other manufacturer does.

Assembly labor costs here are barely 5-10% of the production costs. Also, Chinese labor costs are about the same as Mexican labor costs now. you’re not saving nearly as much on labor as you would be able to just cut a car’s cost in half.

I guess you forgot the entire narrative that our justice and prison system is designed to push minorities with non violent petty crimes into long prison sentences for forced labor.

US steel is barely 3% of Steel global export market...

Because they’re selling it for $7500 more than what the car should be priced at in order to be competitive? That’s a extra $7500 in the pockets of the manufacturers.

It’s funny because everything described here is literally a short sighted decision. Europe isn’t gonna be as soft as the US on the market, and we’ve seen the Chinese/SEA/SA/hell, even mexican market do the exact same...

Tesla doesn’t have that big of a marketshare in China... roughly 2% and it’s been trending downwards...

It’s not just going to be Tesla...

The US is dumping a shit ton of money into this.

Stop buying shit knockoffs and garbage products? I buy a bunch of electronics and motors and etc off of aliexpress for way cheaper than OEM prices here and have nothing but good products...

Honestly, at this point, even if the Seagull is priced at $20k for the 38 kwh extended range one with 250 mile range, would still make for a better commuter vehicle than any of the EVs here other than used ones...

I mean... You don’t even need to add that to the cost of using cars. Insurance is just going to add that to everyone’s car/home/building/commercial building insurance.

I mean... it’s only a issue because the western developed countries consume so much...

Man... That’s because none of the manufacturers or 3rd party charging companies in NA even tried to build out their own extensive network.

The standard isn’t under their control anymore. but the vast majority of NACS is operated under Tesla and you still have to work with them to connect to their chargers. Hence the complaints about not having anyone to contact at Tesla from other manufacturers.

The problem in the first place was adopting NACS.

They weigh about the same as a penny/dime... Getting hit by one of those at 70 mph doesn’t seem fun either.

Wax, more wax, and even more wax. like 3-4 layers of wax should be enough.