• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Holy shit, Lemmy, maybe a little reading would help your hot takes.

    The US government paid out $85B to Detroit in 2008 and since then their vehicles have only gotten bigger, less reliable and more expensive.

    Tesla alone got $15B in various credits. It’s the only way they make money.

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        20 hours ago

        They’re saying that US vehicles are also government subsidized, they just pocketed the money instead of actually improving their products. So comparing the Chinese products to the US ones isn’t unfair, the US products really are that bad and they deserve to fail.

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          19 hours ago

          Chinese are much cheaper and probably more advanced in many ways. If they are both subsidized ( and I didn’t say they are not), doesn’t help either of them.