https://www.wired.com/story/china-conquers-mexican-automotive-market-and-the-us-is-worried/
State department hand wringing that China is going to use the US trade agreements as they were designed is 
I fully expect them to redo these with "except china" clauses.
Entire world is showing how much they want cheap evs. US automakers: check out this truck
Chevy: "Introducing the Chevy Bolt, the best electric vehicle made in the US!" Also Chevy: "fuck you, we're discontinuing it, buy a truck"
Not taking up for GM, just sayin: Bolt is coming back with their newer battery platform. I think it's launching with the 2025 year model
Bringing it back as a crossover SUV, and they're dropping Android Auto/CarPlay so they can datamine you harder and have more data to sell.
Enshittification rules!
Jesus christ, everything is a fucking SUV in the US.
Forcing a cold war that doesn't need to exist and that the rest of the world wants no part in, only results your "enemy" working with other nations? 
It’s them or me!
No wait
When all you have is a hammer…
all you need is a sickle?
Hey! I spent $15000 on this hammer. You better believe in going to use it!
God, I would HATE IT SO MUCH if I could buy a cheap electric car. I'm SO FUCKIN WORRIED GUYS!
I too wish the free market was actually free sometimes. I want a small, cheap, efficient car like literally every other country in the world produces.
I use protectionism as a huge talking point so much.
“We like to claim we’re all about free market, but the US is a very protectionist country and even then only to capital, the idea of protectionism for workers like affordable college or stopping companies from shipping jobs overseas is seen as profane but workers are not allowed to outsource where they consume.
Real talk, I'm strongly considering buying a used EV on the cheap. Trying to suss out which platforms are the likeliest to have a longer lifespan. I think circa 2019 Bolts are in my sweet spot of affordability and best chance of holding up longer term. I'd love to find one with 20-40k miles on it.
so what youre saying is i should go to mexico to buy an EV
If you can yeah
Wouldn't you face problems with importing and registering it in the USA?
Probably not, no, I think you could just drive it across the border, if it's only one. The Chinese cars aren't illegal here they are just subject to a 100% tariff. I'm talking out of my ass though so take it for what it's worth
Edit: I forgot about the safety standards. Wouldn't want anyone getting hurt. Better stick to the cybertruck for now
I'm talking out of my ass though so take it for what it's worth
yeah. From what I know about japanese imports even if you can get them to the US you can't register them if that model of car was never sold here (and maybe even if it was, idr), since technically it never passed various US safety tests that are mandatory. There have been lots of exotic cars crushed for trying. If it's older than 25 years though you get an exemption from the safety standards.
ready and waiting to buy a 2024 BYD car in.... 2049
you absolutely cannot do this
B-b-but what about the free market 
Can you just keep it registered in mexico somehow? I live near the border and see mexican plates pretty often
You'd probably have to pay a fuckton of fees to get it registered at one of the state DMVs in the US. Sadly probably too expensive/ too much of a pain in the ass to be worth it
Mexico please sell me an affordably priced EV that you obtained from China, I promise I won't tell Uncle Sam where you got it.
USA finding out that for as much as it used capitalism to advance the USA's interests capitalism was using the USA to advance capitalism's interests just a little bit more.
Dang, sorry dudes. 
The genesis of Deng Xiaoping thought is recognizing that these bastards would sell their grandmothers for a nickel
today we have innovated and financialized it to where we can lease out grandmothers on a subscription basis
download our new app Eldr
I thought this was so funny that it deserved a comment in addition to an upvote. Go you :)
Flood of immigrant EVs over southern border threatens US billionaire manchild's job
Lol NAFTA.
How dare you command the loyalty of our great beast?!?!
If this reaches some arbitrary threshold of manufacturing above that which US capital is comfortable with they will begin restricting and rewriting what “free trade” means
Altering NAFTA and telling Mexico to "pray we don't alter it further"? Wouldn't put it past them.
All the free trade propaganda stems from a time when imperialist powers depended on it to steamroll native industries in the periphery. Of course, it was associated with all the liberty freedom democracy propaganda, so once it no longer became preferable and even enabled the possibility of the reverse happening, they have to materially oppose it, but still wax poetic about it to please their bootlickers and sycophants.
I forsee a renegotiation of nafta that has "China bad" clauses, also more discipline of labour, as a treat
Shame that it'll be next to impossible to get one of those up here
Not if they build the factories in Mexico!
I never looked into it... but now I'm wondering if there are POV style vehicles that you legally aren't allowed to get registered at the DMV?
Could there be a federal regulation or 50 states worth of state regulation that prohibits the import, sale, and registration of certain makes/models of vehicles?
It's more of a "it's cost-prohibitive to ship something we can't price gouge the shit out of and there's a lack of infrastructure to support it" deal.
At first i just read "China conquers Mexico" and was like "Please do Poland now"
Inshallah
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