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EU to put tariffs of up to 38% on Chinese electric vehicles as trade war looms(www.theguardian.com)

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JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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Sure. So let us do it better in Europe then. This just sounds like defensive excuses. Europe’s car makers could have decided - or been forced - to switch to electric. Europe could have banned the abomination that is the combustion scooter, or taxed to oblivion the SUV. We collectively decided that Volkswagen’s short-term profits are more important than our environment or our economic future. That’s on us, it’s not China’s fault.

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Tja@programming.dev
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Europe has forced car makers to switch to electric, for 2035. It’s just not viable to do it overnight.

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JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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Yes yes I do know that. Somehow China found it was “viable”, though. That is the issue.

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It wouldn’t have been viable in China either, but they simply didn’t have any meaningful ICE-car production to note

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