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Elon Musk is turning US liberals off not just Tesla but electric vehicles in general
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2025
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Are you sure it's not that North American EVs are fucking awful and expensive? And that foreign ones have artificial restrictions to prop up the out-of-touch NA manufacturers?
Yeah, the options for EV in the US are pretty horrible, and it's mainly because US manufacturers want to have their cake and eat it as well. They don't want to invest in EV manufacturing, which imo is fine. We shouldn't have to prod corporations into remaining relevant. However, they are also spending millions of dollars lobbying the government into protecting their market from competitors and into overturning climate initiatives.
We won't ever see these corporations invest in EV until an outside player forces their hands. Amazing how quickly the faux love of Free market economics became a thing of the past the moment there's an actual threat of competition.
Best case scenario imo is that America car manufacturers shit the bed so hard that Americans actually begin to start to care about public transportation. Trains are the most effective and efficient mode of transportation and always have been, ev are just a band-aid.
Knowing charge infrastructure isn't expanding and won't be maintained doesn't help