And China's moat is the ecosystem that they are building around EVs. The mining and refining tech for lithium, battery tech, motors, drivers and manufacturing that will be impossible for any other country to replicate.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not impossible, just expensive.

Easier to buy the products China already makes than to insource industry and control your own (marginally inferior) production chain.

The US is demolishing the tools to compete with China, entirely because the current leadership has an ideological aversion to "Woke" modern technologies. There's no reason the BRICS states would need to follow this path

[–] normis@infosec.pub 7 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Love how the article completely ignores Tesla and doesn't even mention it, although it is also an american car maker

[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess nazis need their EVs too

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 7 points 2 months ago

Cyberdumps were made just for them.

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Last i heard they identified themselves as a robotics company so

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[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Drill, baby, drill!

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Not in America they're not.

Which fucking sucks! The selection of electric cars on sale in America is terrible!

[–] Zier@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

US vehicles are huge, Earth killing dinosaurs. And like the dinosaurs, they will be extinct someday.

[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

News about global trade deficits isn't mildly interesting. It's mildly boring.

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