A group representing nearly all major automakers on Monday, Nov. 2 urged U.S. lawmakers to pass a permanent ban on Chinese vehicles when they return next week for a quick session after the midterm congressional elections.

In September, the Senate sponsors of the bipartisan effort to ban Chinese vehicles agreed to delay an effort to fast-track the bill until November despite overwhelming support.

Some congressional aides and auto lobbyists think if Democrats win control of Congress there may not be enough time to approve the Chinese vehicle ban before this session ends in December.

  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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    Those are all fine questionsn but until you actually have the answer to them, who are you or anyone else to pass judgement or make proclamations about them?

    BYD may be heavily subsidized, but they’re also comparatively new and young, able to innovate and respond to market demands, fundamental practices their older monopolistic competitors have long ago lost interest in doing.

    They’re not able to innovate and respond quickly because they’re new. They’re able to do this because they have a blank check to do so with plenty of local ‘competitors’ in the same situation; the whole 10,000 apes sitting at typewriters scenario. We can see the same thing here in the US with venture capitalists funding all sorts of startups and look where that has gotten us. Tesla is also new and young but we haven’t seen any innovations from them in about a decade now, just to demonstrate my point.

    What new innovations are you referring to specifically by the way? AFAIK the appeal of Chinese EVs is that they’re selling for 1/4 the price of any other nation’s EVs. This wasn’t accomplished through innovation. It was accomplished through deep pockets. I don’t know of any feature present in Chinese EVs that someone else hasn’t already figured out.