Electric VehiclesOr... what?
Chinese companies build their cars in China for profit and strategic reasons. What plan does Canada have to force them to change this?
Not allow more than 50,000/yr. Exactly what we are doing now.
And how is that working out for Canada - one of the few countries to currently be in recession?
Canada has had economic slowdown due to US trade policies, but is not in recession. Have fun if you want to make shit up.
Sounds like a fair condition for increasing the sales quota beyond 49k.
They would stop being cheap if that were the case. They are able to build competitively in China because of huge government support. Building Overseas, they would become just another car maker.
Name one Ontario automaker that hasn't received huge government support. This industry sucks billions from governments every year, federal and provincial. China is estimated to boost automakers by $8B, peanuts.
Detroit automakers have seen >$88B in government support...so where are the affordable EVs? How many EVs do we make in Canada? Just this laughable POS @$75,000.
7,400 total sales worldwide.
But cars are more expensive when we have to pay a living wage :'(
It's a very old myth that Chinese labor is cheaper. That was true 25 years ago. It's a reach to call UAW skilled labor.
https://www.aiu.edu/innovative/the-myth-of-cheap-chinese-labor-unpacking-a-complex-reality/
In this case, the CCP also provides massive subsidies to them. If they did not build in China, all the money would dry up
Xpeng builds it's cars for the EU market in Austria.
Sooo many economists on Lemmy.
We should only build steam rollers in this country so we could squish the people who don’t want to pay living wages like human tubes of toothpaste
Mane I’ve had too much to drink today. Or mortar is the sweet spot. I don’t know.
Soylent Green!
Oh ya. The might of 30 million people.
You tell China!
Hahahahaha.
So China doesn't care about 2 million car sales a year?
You know we can tell China to just fuck off? Right?
And the population of Canada is over 41 million.
The USA told China to fuck off and look what that got them.
Antagonizing China isn't a smart move after decades of relying on it for everything. First, invest into domestic production, then reduce imports from China. Otherwise you're just shooting yourself in the foot.
USA told everyone to fuck off, not just China.
Seems like a pretty reasonable request - if you want access to sell in our market, then you also need to create jobs in that market. They're not threatening China.
Canada has no obligation to just open itself up. China itself has historically had pretty extreme protectionist policies in place.
EU did this, and Xpeng cars are made in Austria by Magna, a Canadian company owned by a rapist.
Sounds like they need an anti-rapist clause.
In general though, it makes sense.
