America: “it’s fine when corporations move manufacturing to China and sell back home for a huge profit… But it’s not okay for China to sell their manufactured goods in the USA”
If China gave them away for free, the Sinophobes would probably still complain.
I imagine there’s a few things above sinophobia for the average car buyer. Just a few.
Australia’s car manufacturing industry is basically non-existent, they import almost all of them. The EU and US have huge manufacturing bases they’re trying to protect
More accurately: American car manufacturers killed our local production.
Really? I don’t know a ton about this, but it looks like American and Japanese manufacturers are the only ones to have ever operated in Australia
I’m not super into cars, but it’s my understanding Holden was a local manufacturer that got bought out by GM? Or if not that, then they were making specifically Australian vehicles despite being part of GM, much like Ford Australia used to. Both ended up shutting down operations down here, so now we have nothing local.
So not the fault of USA manufacturers, but Australia’s incompetent leadership
No, not even close to that
We had Australian made and designed cars, then gm bought out Holden and ran it into the ground before shuttering the brand entirely.
Thanks to Joe Hockey and the LNP government who decided it wasn’t strategically important to have high value manufacturing in Australia.
Adelaide killed big chunks of their public transport system to appease Holden, who fucked off anyway. Still salty.
I love that the cover image for this article about buying Chinese EVs is a car from a Swedish manufacturer (Polestar, owned by Volvo). Western media really knows jack shit about the Chinese EV market.
Volvo is Chinese
Volvo, and Polestar, are owned by Geely Holding (since 2010), a Chinese car manufacturer and conglomerate, so I think the photo is quite apt.
Plus Tesla’s for the Australian market are built in China. Heck, I think some of the new BMWs are built in China now as well.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
This year, vehicles from China became the third most popular choice for new car sales in Australia, knocking South Korea — the home of Kia and Hyundai — down to fourth place, and rapidly gaining ground on manufacturing leaders Thailand and Japan.
President Ursula von der Leyen said global markets were being “flooded with cheaper electric cars” with prices “kept artificially low by huge state subsidies”.
The Chinese government has spent decades trying to help its flagging auto industry catch up to the giants of Europe, Asia and the US, and while it failed in the era of petrochemical propulsion, it found success in the age of the electric vehicle.
Growing consumer awareness, cost competitiveness, technological advances and a cut in tariffs thanks to the Australia-China Free Trade Agreement are all helping to drive sales of Chinese vehicles in Australia.
A spokesperson from Australia’s Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) said increased competition and the availability of Chinese-produced vehicles had “enhanced consumer choice, allowing Australians to purchase cars that best fit their work, recreation, and family”.
Professor Zhang said despite claims China was “flooding the market” with EVs, the global vehicle fleet was still dominated by internal combustion engines and consumers would ultimately “choose products that suit their needs”.
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I thought I was on c/fakenews
Can I buy a, cough, Australian electric car?
People buy vehicles they can afford, more at 11
Well, I feel misled. The graphic shows a Volvo as a Chinese manufactured vehicle.
Sales of Chinese made EVs in Australia
- Tesla - 46,116
- BYD - 12,438
- MG - 5,928
- Volvo - 3,949
They’re counting Tesla as a Chinese EV.
Still, the BYD figure is nothing to be scoffed at.
Where were they manufactured?
Isn’t there a Chinese Tesla factory?
In China. But the majority of Teslas are manufactured are in China, and no one really considers Teslas “Chinese cars” or “Chinese EVs”.
So manufactured in China like the article says.
Doesn’t stop it from being misleading.
It’s called “burying the lede”.
It’s misleading based on your arguably less important criteria, but OK
Wow, you think Teslas are “Chinese EVs”. You’re literally the first person I’ve encountered to think so. Also why lead into an article with a graphic of the least selling vehicle?
In Australia they’re all manufactured in China. So it’s a Chinese car.
Cars in high developed economies like Australia have until recently been mainly manufactured in highly developed economies like EU, Japan, US etc.
Because the Australian Teslas and Volvos are made in China. It’s a Chinese EV. Volvo is owned by a Chinese Company.
Would be better if they bought Chinese trains
I don’t blame them. I used to look down on them until my mother bought a Chinese car and I was impressed by how good it is, not just for the price but full stop.
Is this the free market?
If you’re wealthy.
If EU manufacturers didn’t charge 35k for a car that barely fits 3 people, we wouldn’t need to turn to these chinese cars.
