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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 day ago (46 children)

As much as I hate Elon, this is a terrible idea. Cheap Chinese trash mobiles built by Uyghur slave labor are not the answer.

How about we build cars in Canada instead?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 49 minutes ago

Aren’t Chrysler, Fords, and GMs already built in Canada, or at least a bunch of the parts of them?

They should ban the Cybertruck altogether for being an unnecessarily dangerous vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Cheap Chinese trash mobiles built by Uyghur slave labor are not the answer.

Source?

How about we build cars in Canada instead?

Another person who thinks the world is like a SIMS game... just press the button and the factory pops up, right?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

EVs are easier to build than gas cars at least

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

LOL, have you seen the EVs that are coming out of China nowadays?

If they were trash the EU and US wouldn’t put tariffs on them, because they wouldn’t threaten our own manufacturers no?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Except they aren't trash, they're better than Teslas that's for sure.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Except they aren’t trash, they’re better than Teslas that’s for sure.

It's possible to be trash and also better than Tesla...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

That's a low fucking bar lol

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (16 children)

They are still data hungry, surveillance machines that are allways online and gps tracked. We need cars without that kinda shit built in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

exactly like their US counterparts though

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago

There has been talks about forcing Chinese cars to come over disconnected. Every new car is a surveillance machine. The western brands will not be asked to disconnect anything and it will probably be illegal to do so yourself, so Chinese cars might be an actual win in that regard.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

American car company secretly send your driving data to your insurance company so they can squeeze more out from you for any minor reason they see fit. There's no reason canada insurance company won't do that. Scared about chinese car collecting your data is kinda missed the point, you should have stronger data protection instead.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

My toenail clippings are better than Teslas.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

That's what my friend in NZ told me too, they're really good, better or the same as Tesla.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Build cars in Germany, Japan, South Korea and the like. focus on something non car you can sell to them in return. You can do anything but not everything.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Building cars is something we already do in Canada. And there's currently a lot of capacity coming online to build electric cars. Pretty much the entire car could be sourced from Canadian parts, including the batteries. I think semi-conductors are the only thing that doesn't have a domestic source right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

Sedans please.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But we were fine with the usa destroying multiple countries, participating in many coups and supporting Israel for decades.

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