The capability itself is concerning. This bespoke cable might cost $200, but what would the unit cost be if a state decided to mass produce them?

The hope is that this will incentivize and result in more development of the American manufacturing sector

Tariffs alone are not enough. Expanding production is a long term investment, but there’s no guarantee a tariff will still exist in 4 years. Its risky to invest capital to meet tariff-induced demand when that demand might disappear before your new factory is even finished being built.

Uncle Sam can mitigate that risk by subsidizing the construction of new factories while the tariffs are in place.

While blowing, some of the fan’s energy is spent on increasing the pressure inside your dishwasher, which increases the density of the air the fan blades move through, increasing drag on the fan blades causing them to move slower and create less airflow.

While blowing, you’re also pushing moist air to the back of the dishwasher, and after that air reaches 100% relative humidity, it can’t hold any more water and will not help dry your plates. Some of it will eventually escape around the sides, but some of the airflow your fan creates just circulates humid air around the inside of the dishwasher.

Turning your fan around solved both problems. It increased the volume of air flow, and decreased the relative humidity of the air flow.

over charging customers and under paying employees

That’s the crux of the issue.

Who’s going to buy it for a high price, if there is no demand for office space, because workers are all remote?

The battery’s chemistry isn’t important to the end user. Price, capacity, longevity, and charge time is. If we assume CATL inflates their stats by the amount that’s standard for their market, we can infer their new battery is almost as good as Tesla’s old battery in terms of mechanical utility to the end user - their only hope of competing is to win big on price.

I hope they can win that competition. I’d love to see GM produce an EV that’s almost as good as a Tesla and a lot cheaper.

Avoiding GM and using the most current tech are both bad ideas, for the same reason: Tesla is owned by a horrible person.

After subtracting the expected quantity of deception in Chinese advertising, this new battery tech from China is still not as good as what Tesla has already been making for the last several years.

Wait a minute, companies that run charging stations now want local businesses to pay them for the privilege of installing one of their chargers? Instead of the company selling the recharging to EV owners paying the local business rent for use of their real estate?

Takes too long to charge. The Seagull EV’s “fast” charge from 20% to 80% takes ~40 minutes and gives ~100 miles of range. The Model 3’s ~20 minute fast charge for ~150 miles was already pushing the outer limit of reasonable.

Still, the price is right to make it a household’s second car.

Buyer: I want a small, light weight, reliable vehicle with no frills or excess features, that will get me from point A to point B.

Automotive industry PR: So what you’re saying is that you want bells and whistles? Why don’t you buy radar in the bumper, a distracting touch screen that can’t be used while going over bumps or around corners instead of buttons, heated seats that don’t work without a subscription, heating elements in the steering wheel that occasionally burn you and set your car on fire, heavy sunroofs that leak, heavy electric motors to adjust your seats, heavy electric motors to roll the windows, heavy electric motors in the steering column that will fight you for control of the vehicle, a video game console for a speedometer, more cameras than a paparazzi, and expensive self-driving software the does not work yet but we totally promise that it will Soon™. Also, it will not get you from point A to point B.

Automotive industry when sales are disappointing:
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advertising and ALL CAPS

Because those are not good cars. The low range of the Leaf and slow recharge of the Bolt make them impractical.

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Fair enough. Not all monopolies are bad monopolies. There’s a narrow set of circumstances where a monopoly can exist within a market without making that market something other than free.

Government owned utilities for example - natural monopolies that are allowed to exist in a highly regulated state.

Monopsony can also be good for the free market in sectors with inflexible demand, such as healthcare.

But those are exceptions, and not the general rule.

It always becomes monopoly.

One person telling everyone else what’s going to happen isn’t freedom.

Yeah, an unregulated market isn’t free.

Prisoners may find it difficult to make the commute and show up on time for a factory shift.

But actually yes, their labor contribution is a significant component in the supply chain.

For example, if an undocumented worker labors to produce food, that frees up another person’s labor for working in a factory.

Some of the things used in the automotive industry that are made by prisoners:
-wiring harnesses
-interior components like seat covers, upholstery, and floor mats
-lighting components like headlights and interior lights
-repair and refurbishment of government fleet vehicles; brakes, body work, painting, mechanical repairs, etc…, which also frees up the labor of skilled mechanics to work on returning broken EVs to the road

Other goods and services produced by prisoners that indirectly assist the production of EV’s include:
-circuit boards, mostly for government use, but lower demand for civilian circuit board manufacturing capacity lowers the prices of EV components
-office furniture
-eye-wear, including prescription lenses and safety glasses that might be worn in the EV factories
-metalworking, including making toolboxes, lockers and shelves that may be found in EV factories
-government warehouse & distribution jobs free up civilian labor that can go into EV supply chain logistics

Yeah, tax incentives and consumer rebates won’t encourage investment in American EV manufacturing capacity because they could disappear overnight and the extra capacity would then be wasted.

Free money to build new factories will do it though, and that’s what Uncle Sam has been spending on - its less risky to tool up a factory for mass production of a low margin family sedan when somebody else is paying for the tools and you won’t lose money if your new model sedan doesn’t sell enough units to cover the one time factory startup costs.

I don’t think the Bolt was a practical vehicle? You can’t take road trips with it, even across the charger-dense East Coast USA - it won’t get you from Miami to Orlando, or from New York to DC.

Driving it from 80% to 20% charge gives a range of 155 miles, which is decent, but then a fast charging station would need 1.4 hours to charge it back up from 20% to 80%.

I also don’t believe for a second US car manufacturers are not milking customers with features they don’t really need

Japanese car makers do the same in the US market.