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Uh, isn't that the whole point, from a US manufacturers perspective?

I was in Shanghai earlier this year and was really impressed with the Roewe Tesla knockoffs. Nice inside, felt sturdy, great pedestrian-warning tech.

BYD is already becoming one of the most selling EV brands in the EU, because they are so such an insanely good value for money

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Europe also has (or is about to have, not quite sure). The competitive pressures Chinese EV brands will face could potentially help put them even further ahead in the tech. We will see...

Biden imposed a 100% tariff on them..

If he does what he wants to do there is going to be a lot of economic chaos (on top of geopolitical chaos)

Battery manufacturing is so polluting that the industry outside China was killed by NIMBYs, and China then used its dominance in batteries to become dominant in EVs.

There are almost certainly more BYDs than Teslas on the road in Morelia now (and approximately 0 non-Tesla US EVs). This despite BYD being in the market for only a year or so.

But again, that's the purpose of those tariffs: saving national companies from having to spend money innovating and competing with foreign companies and providing them a captured market. That might make sense in a developing country that's trying to establish a national industry, but not in the US

On a related note federal rules prohibit transit agencies from purchasing the best electric buses available because of Buy America constraints. This places these agencies in highly disadvantageous monopoly marketplace.

Meanwhile the Chinese industry has developed much better and efficient cars. And the US industry is still building huge trucks and SUVS that get less efficient every year.

@stephenjacobsmith.com EV OEM’s in the U.S. are not lacking competition they are lacking demand and accessible infrastructures for Tier2 consumers. China has been in the bones of U.S. auto since the 80’s. The real issue is in the chips. That’s where your attention should be.

My point is that manufacturing is the basis of a war economy, so China deindustrializing the rest of the world would propel it to global domination.