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by bdangubic 54 days ago
If Chinese EVs were available for sale in the US every single US car company would close down (even after government bailouts) within 2 years
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Usa allowed Japanese and German cars. Maybe one day they will allow Chinese cars also.
The way to do it is with quotas. 100,000 vehicles per year per manufacturer with a country cap of 10% of previous year’s total passenger-vehicle sales (the latter currently 15+ million in America).

Then you slowly ramp up those limits over time to e.g. 200,000 and 20%. Enough to give consumers respite and producers a taste of the true competition. But not so much of a shock as to cause a mass extinction.

they won’t. china is so far ahead with (won’t get it why and now)… they are making their way though into Cali ( https://nypost.com/2026/04/29/us-news/high-tech-chinese-cars... ) but I suspect the Gov will intervene sooner rather than later