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Do you think people care about car manufacturing being a thing here? If Tesla does not succeed (which seems possible), will Ford or GM put as much into batteries and research? Does it matter if we all buy BYD cars made in China? Apparently they are far superior and cheaper. What do you think?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-car-industry-tariffs.html
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https://news.gm.com/home.detail.html/Pages/topic/us/en/2025/jan/0130-evmfg.html

"Over the last five years, no American automaker has invested more capital in battery manufacturing and infrastructure than GM. And as our recent results demonstrate, those investments are paying off: in 2024, our U.S. EV sales jumped 50%, and our share of the domestic EV market doubled.

And while we are excited about the opportunity in EVs, GM continues to invest in production of gas- and diesel-powered vehicles. Overall, GM has approximately 90,000 U.S. employees, who together generate $12 billion in taxable wages annually, boosting communities across the US. The company has invested more than $35 billion in our U.S. facilities since 2014 to support vehicle production and development.

In a report published this month titled “Tracking the State of U.S. EV Manufacturing,” the data and policy research firm Atlas Public Policy and the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation found the auto industry overall has announced $209 billion in domestic EV manufacturing from 2000 through September 2024, creating an estimated 240,000 jobs. GM alone invested $17.6 billion in EV infrastructure, creating thousands of jobs. That’s more capital invested in the U.S. market over that span than any other domestic automaker – more than Ford, more than Stellantis, more than Rivian, more than Tesla."[/quote]

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