It's all just this lawless personal fealty shit.
But Geely can throw down the gauntlet by building Polestars and relabeling them Volvos.
Their cheap exports: sinister pump and dump
The battery, engine and everything else is absolutely Chinese made. I don’t know how much assembly there is honestly but i feel the Geely, err i mean Polestar was a little close to that line.
I will say the laws around this indicate just how ridiculous tariffs can be. There’s always some line to press up against and honestly if electric motors, batteries, car bodies and wheels from china have different tariffs to a car as a whole it’s always going to lead to china shipping those parts in an easy to bolt together way to ‘make a car’.
Feds deny Polestar authorization to sell cars in US from model year 2027
Cheap good for decades has meant companies have been able to depress wages to the point no one can really live without them. Removing the cheap goods without also giving up massive corporate profits would just mean most people collapse into poverty.
SilverElfin•2h ago
Terr_•2h ago
https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/cate...
andsoitis•1h ago
Polestar is predominantly Chinese-owned. Federal Connected Car Rules instituted a ban on the company selling cars in the United States.
killingtime74•1h ago
caminante•49m ago
I don't see any of those on the mozillafoundation page, per @andsoitis.
mukbangpervert•52m ago
It is silly to credulously pretend that the excuse about Chinese software has even a whiff of legitimacy.
natch•36m ago
mukbangpervert•12m ago
(Though I thought that anybody as smart as you think you are would've inferred that without issue)