If I go buy a Tesla right now in Estonia, the US government isn’t paying Tesla extra for building the car, despite the fact that Musk was literally president of the united states a year ago. If I buy a Mercedes, Germany won’t pay the company to build the car. If I buy a BYD, the Chinese government will pay BYD.
Tesla received tax benefits and grants for building factories, but that’s normal, the Chinese do that too. Nobody’s complaining about that. It’s the fact that they literally still pay per car built, even if the cars are sold to other countries, long after the companies are successful.
Then there’s the working hours. 996 is technically illegal now, but plenty of Chinese companies still do it. There was another comment somewhere in this thread where a person said they thought Chinese factory employees have good living conditions, as he’d done the job for a few months and didn’t have any issues affording things. When asked how much they had to work? 84 hours. That’s worse than 996, which is “only” 72 hours.
Why aren’t US or other non-chinese car makers making more electric cars to compete?
Instead they take oil money to keep combustion engines around as the primary. Despite companies like Ford having been subsidised by the government to still exist with no real requirements.
Most countries have come all the told it needed to be able to do this and refused to adapt at the same time.
I’m the end it’s a race for the bottom which just sucks…
Europe and the US generally pay subsidies for EV purchases, not production.
If you buy a Chinese EV in most countries with an EV subsidy, you get two subsidies: the Chinese one for production and the local one for purchasing.
USA did the exact same thing with Tesla.
If I go buy a Tesla right now in Estonia, the US government isn’t paying Tesla extra for building the car, despite the fact that Musk was literally president of the united states a year ago. If I buy a Mercedes, Germany won’t pay the company to build the car. If I buy a BYD, the Chinese government will pay BYD.
Tesla received tax benefits and grants for building factories, but that’s normal, the Chinese do that too. Nobody’s complaining about that. It’s the fact that they literally still pay per car built, even if the cars are sold to other countries, long after the companies are successful.
Then there’s the working hours. 996 is technically illegal now, but plenty of Chinese companies still do it. There was another comment somewhere in this thread where a person said they thought Chinese factory employees have good living conditions, as he’d done the job for a few months and didn’t have any issues affording things. When asked how much they had to work? 84 hours. That’s worse than 996, which is “only” 72 hours.
That’s kind of the point though, no?
Why aren’t US or other non-chinese car makers making more electric cars to compete?
Instead they take oil money to keep combustion engines around as the primary. Despite companies like Ford having been subsidised by the government to still exist with no real requirements.
Most countries have come all the told it needed to be able to do this and refused to adapt at the same time.
I’m the end it’s a race for the bottom which just sucks…
Most countries don’t subsidise goods sold into other countries. It’s literal economic warfare.
Most companies also have plenty of EV offerings. They’re just not as popular as ICE counterparts yet.