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byCasandro ( 751346 ) writes:
I mean sure, electric vehicles are going to plummet in price, once the Chinese want to add the rest of the world to their market. It's just so much cheaper to build an electric car than one with an internal combustion engine.
As for synth fuels... well the conditions under which that would make sense are very... special.
That said, we are living in extremely odd times, particularly in the US.... so maybe your president declares a war on the sun, outlawing any use of its energy, or a ban on technology past 1935, who knows?
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byPPH ( 736903 ) writes:
once the Chinese want to add the rest of the world to their market
That would be yesterday. The rest of the world (not just the USA) is worried about China's monopoly in rare earths (magnetics) and battery manufacturing capacity (of which they have about 80%). Both of these are dual use resources. Both for civilian EVs as well as military uses.
byshilly ( 142940 ) writes:
They may be worried, but the only other major market to have imposed significant tariffs on Chinese EVs is the EU...and the Eu's tariffs aren't going to shut the Chinese out, not by a long shot. And they are quite obviously tariffs to defend OEM incumbents rather than being security-based tariffs or strategic supply chain tariffs.
bystrikethree ( 811449 ) writes:
I mean sure, electric vehicles are going to plummet in price, once the Chinese want to add the rest of the world to their market.
Huh? I am confused. China already offers EVs to the entire world. It is your own government that is prohibiting them from being sold if they are not available to you.
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