General Motors, Ford and other established automakers risk becoming relics if they don’t catch up to Chinese carmakers and technology companies in electric vehicles and self-driving cars.

  • RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    I wouldn’t buy their bullshit cars anyway. As an American who has been inside many, I can say that most American cars and trucks suck. Their reliability and build quality have driven me to only purchase vehicles from former WWII Axis powers nations.

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        23 days ago

        Is it just the import that’s banned? Or is it more, like registration, sale, ownership, purchase, …?

        Like, if I could teleport a Chinese EV into my garage then what’s stopping me from using it?

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          23 days ago

          You can’t register it for on-road use, with an exception for automakers who agree to destroy the car within a year.

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        22 days ago

        Was just checking arching a video that said the lowest priced new vehicle in the US is just over $20,000

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      23 days ago

      The maintenance costs of my GM vs my Nissan are like night and day. My GM was junked by the time my Nissan was paid off, and that’s getting close to half of its lifetime ago now, and I still haven’t replaced as much shit in my Nissan as I needed to in the GM.

      Though tbf, I have been putting only synthetic oil in it and that might actually make the difference. At least for the components on the drive train. I also recall not having working AC, fuel guage, digital clock display… Only issue with my current car is sometimes one of the speakers gets a bit of a buzz at certain frequencies, but even that doesn’t happen frequently.