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Detroit's carmakers to save billions in emissions rollback
- mlhamel 1y agojusqu'ici tout va bien!
- thrill 1y agoYet the hard landing is inevitable.
- m348e912 1y agoInteresting comment: "Until now, everything has been going well" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyKookhlYeA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyKookhlYeA
- dmoy 1y agoNo way, the movie is 30 years old now? Time to check the relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/891/ https://xkcd.com/891/ which itself is almost 15 years old... shiiiiiit
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- mitchbob 1y agohttps://archive.ph/eCrel https://archive.ph/eCrel
- lesuorac 1y agoHopefully out of this we can just get a carbon tax instead of a credit system. It is pretty funny though how much money Musk spent on somebody that just wants to dismantle his empire. If only he read Project 2025.
- grg0 1y agoI find the latter very amusing, actually. Have tech CEOs confused money as a proxy of power for actual power? Did they really think they could "buy" a guy that grew up in the mafia world of real estate?
- gsf_emergency_2 1y agoProblem for other proxies (knowledge, social media presence, sex, drugs (as a medium), rock&roll, etc): cash is too (stable &) liquid
- Blackthorn 1y agoThey didn't want to buy him, they wanted the other guy to lose. Me Too basically turned the entirety of Silicon Valley leadership into happy fascists when it became clear they weren't allowed to sexually harass (or worse) their employees anymore. That was more important than pretty much anything else.
- ethagnawl 1y agoYou're right but I think it's even more broad than just sexual harassment, racism, bullying, etc. MAGA has given people license to be shitty and not have to worry (as much) about the social, legal or political costs. In many cases, people are actively rewarded for their bad behavior because "it makes them authentic" or because there's a large enough percentage of the population that shares the same biases.
- Blackthorn 1y agoI don't disagree with you, I just think that in terms of Silicon Valley leaders it's specifically the Me Too angle.
- mensetmanusman 1y agoThe dems worked harder to dismantle.
- rapsacnz 1y agoYeah, but no-one outside of the USA will buy their shitty cars. So ultimately, they won't be competitive and will go under.
- grg0 1y agoThat is the real question to me. Surely ramping production of gas cars at the expense of a slower adoption of EV technology is a step backwards in the global market? Regardless of what you think of the EV regulations, isn't the underlying problem that local car manufacturers are simply not competitive? EU car manufacturers have the same conundrum too as far as I know.
- tokioyoyo 1y agoYeah, honestly I don’t know how to look at these news other than admission to defeat compared to Chinese EVs that I keep seeing in every country that doesn’t have domestic car industry or huge tariffs against them.
- monkeydreams 1y ago> other than admission to defeat compared to Chinese EVs Or, to put it in another way; better and cheaper options for consumers. > in every country that doesn’t have domestic car industry or huge tariffs against them. Not every country needs a local car industry. Having a small number of efficient manufacturing countries means that everyone (both the consumers and the manufacturing countries) are better off. As a non-American, there is nothing special or magical about the US economy besides its size. American cars are generally sub-standard and are increasingly unpopular in my country as they are either too large/loud or saddled with US politics.
- tokioyoyo 1y agoI agree with you completely. But reality is, when you have large X industry, there will be pressure to protect it at all costs — politically and economically speaking. How will that protectionism work, and whether consumers will be fed up with it to the point to throw the industry under the bus? That’s a different question.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoHow wonderfully forward looking.
- xbar 1y agoI couldn't get past the Bloomberg terms to even read that story. Oof. They are less news-like every day...
- bluGill 1y agoNo they won't almost all the money difference is r&d costs that not only are already spent and thus sunk costs, but they still need to invest as not only does other countries demand it, it is a safe bet that there will be a legal change in a few years going back. all they can do is maybe make some cars that currently are non-compliant but they will only do that if the jigs are still around and in good shape. They will not invest millions recreating worn out jigs that are not compliant and thus at risk of being useless whet the rules change again. manufactures want consistency and predictability of policy because they have to make long term investments. This looks short term and so while they might take advantage it doesn't change much and in turn doesn't save much if anything.
- mensetmanusman 1y agoThis is a smart move based on how far behind the US grid is in supporting EV charging. People without homes still have no convenient charging means due to Biden’s amazing skill of spending on infrastructure.
- r0ckarong 1y agoShifting the blame once again to the environment and the tax payer.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 1y agoI know one thing all americans agree on is that they like their air thick and smoggy. Ask anyone, "do you wnat the air dirtier?" and they say "hell yes!"