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While this is a valid argument, it is disappointing the US domestic industry gets a pass after pivoting their assortment heavily toward luxury vehicles. Tesla

While this is a valid argument, it is disappointing the US domestic industry gets a pass after pivoting their assortment heavily toward luxury vehicles. Tesla has basically been the only domestic automaker taking risks and aggressively pursuing manufacturing efficiencies. There are all sorts of unacceptable national security tradeoffs that come with allowing domestic industrial capacity to diminish and China to own more of the automotive supply chain, but the industry is also going to be less competitive long term, and consumers are going to have fewer discretionary dollars.

daghamm 2y ago
"Tesla has basically been the only domestic automaker taking risks and aggressively pursuing manufacturing efficiencies." Sometimes too aggressive which may come back and hunt them. For example, multiple companies are doing full body casting but Tesla moved very fast and ended up selling cars that now have cracks in them. There is a reason it took others longer time to introduce this in their factories... https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-model-y-owner-finds-scary-cracks-in-gigacast-front-end https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-model-y-owner-finds-scar... The situation is much worse for Chinese manufacturers. Some of these cars are death traps.