▲ 387 ▼ Americans Can’t Buy Chinese EVs. Waymo Is Importing Thousands (www.forbes.com) submitted 1 week ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/news@lemmy.world 67 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] finley@lemmy.zip 104 points 1 week ago* (2 children) This isn’t a clever loophole – – this is Trump making sure that only billionaires can profit, and the rest of us are all fucked permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 18 points 1 week ago Only his billionaire bosses can profit. Lol permalink fedilink source parent [–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago It doesn't actually seem that way. They're likely eating the tariff because of the costs of hardware redesign, which I would imagine to cost millions and a lot of testing time. If they're getting a volume discount of 10%, then after tarrif each vehicle is probably cheaper than a whole refab. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 18 points 1 week ago Only his billionaire bosses can profit. Lol permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago It doesn't actually seem that way. They're likely eating the tariff because of the costs of hardware redesign, which I would imagine to cost millions and a lot of testing time. If they're getting a volume discount of 10%, then after tarrif each vehicle is probably cheaper than a whole refab. permalink fedilink source parent