this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2024
452 points (95.4% liked)

Electric Vehicles

3225 readers
263 users here now

A community for the sharing of links, news, and discussion related to Electric Vehicles.

Rules

  1. No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, casteism, speciesism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
  2. Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.
  3. No self-promotion
  4. No irrelevant content. All posts must be relevant and related to plug-in electric vehicles — BEVs or PHEVs.
  5. No trolling
  6. Policy, not politics. Submissions and comments about effective policymaking are allowed and encouraged in the community, however conversations and submissions about parties, politicians, and those devolving into general tribalism will be removed.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Sunshine@lemmy.ca
452
BYD would still have the cheapest EV in the US, even with a 100% tariff (electrek.co)
submitted 1 month ago by MyOpinion@lemm.ee to c/evs@lemmy.world
205 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Even with the new 100% tariff on electric vehicles imported from China, BYD would still have the cheapest EV in the US. According to a new report, BYD’s lowest-priced EV would still undercut all US automakers at under $25,000.

After discontinuing the production of vehicles powered entirely by internal combustion engines in March 2022, BYD has been at the forefront of the industry’s shift to EVs.

Honestly in my opinion it is time to remove all tariffs on EVs under 25k and let anyone who wants to fill that slot in. American car manufacturers refuse to fill the market need.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] KellysNokia@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Fun fact. The ten most "American-made" cars of 2023 are:

Tesla Model Y
Tesla Model 3
Tesla Model X
Tesla Model S
Honda Passport
Volkswagen ID.4
Honda Odyssey
Acura MDX
Honda Ridgeline
Acura RDX

Hmmm, something seems to be missing... 🤔

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

For better or worse, there are multiple ways of measuring "American Made". An alternate measure, which probably matters more in this conversation, is "how many people that worked on are American residents". Here's a study that tries to rank each model by how much it contributes to the US economy

The vast majority of the development (engineering, planning, purchasing/supply chain, quality, after sales, etc) effort for Honda and VW is overseas, along with most other non-domestic brands. This extends beyond their own employees to their tier 1s. Many OEMs use suppliers that are located geographically close to their development centers.

None of this excuses the domestic OEMs for their abandonment of cars, their endless march to higher and higher average transaction price, or their quality records.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Mercedes, Audi and BMW?

I'm sure they're right around the corner, pretty close to the top 10.

Oh, you meant Ford, GM and Chryslerdaimlerfiatstellantis?

Yeah nah, as true patriots, they produce in other countries so Americans would pay for the cars, but not be paid to build them.

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

all the custom cars?