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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 points 5 minutes ago

Why just a tariff? Just ban all Tesla vehicle imports and all sales of new Tesla vehicles. For owners of existing vehicles they should be offered a generous buyback and equally generous loan terms for a new or used car. That would encourage most Tesla owners to trade-in their vehicles.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 hour ago

Or just fix public transit for fucks sake. Evs are a distraction from the problemm

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 hour ago

The benefit of a tarrif on Tesla vs opening the market to China is that we can easily undo it if there is a US coup, Trump gets medicated, gets burned, whatever. There's still the potential that this is a temporary situation, not the new reality. If we open up to a third party, we can't put the genie back in the bottle.

[–] Onemadmother@lemmy.ca 2 points 53 minutes ago

Why not do both? I like public transit idea but does not work for smaller/rural communities

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 19 points 3 hours ago

Someone's doing the happy hunny dance....

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

That feels like "robbing Peter to pay Paul". We don't want to be dependent on either nationalist autocracy.

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Get them to help build factories in Canada

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 15 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

I dont think there is a single privacy friendly EV on the market.

If a Canadian company could build and export an EV that wasn't loaded with invasive sensors and where the data recording and uploading was opt-in (or non existent), loads of US Americans and Europeans would import them from Canada.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I think you can expand that to all cars, not just EVs.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 1 hour ago

Hopefully ICE bans will expand in the near future

[–] madejackson@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I hope aptera will save us.

[–] AlienContact2049@lemmy.ca 28 points 5 hours ago

I think we should build them ourselves.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 hours ago (9 children)

Canada has the same incentive to not open the door to Chinese EVs that the US does.

Why would they shoot themselves in the face just to splash some blood on someone else?

[–] Gewoonmoi@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Canada doesn't have the incentives that the Americans have at all. Correct me if I'm wrong. America's incentive is to protect its own EV industry, Canada doesn't have an EV industry of its own.

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