You’re probably looking more at $35K CD for a Chinese EV. They won’t bring the smallest, cheapest over since they have a limit. Some of the Korean small cars (not kei cars, just regular compact cars) that are being shipped to Europe won’t come to the US, even though I’d love to get one. We North Americans love us some SUVs.
And your personal use case math is first order miles/gas price/electricity price/vehicle efficiency, second order insurance/registration/maintenance/repair cost differences (unless you are doing very low miles, then second order would dominate). If you replace enough miles from your full size pickup with EV miles, it could be an economic win.
Yes. When I was in the US last week, I really noticed all the full size SUV’s. Like those ford expeditions. They were common place on the roads. I don’t remember the last time I’ve seen one of those types of vehicles in Canada. We have SUV’s, but not of that size anymore.
I thought it was 6.1% tariffs on the cars, 15% on the canola. Car imports capped for now at I think 49,000 and by 2030, half will be cheaper than $35,000.
My dad and his wife keep on buying them. My dad’s daily driver is a Chevy Avalanche and his wife drives a huge Honda Pilot. In her defence, both of her kids have/had families of 5 (one is getting divorced), so when the out of town family visits they need a big vehicle (or could just use 2 smaller vehicles).
I suspect Trump is going to go crazy on Trump Social lambasting the decision of the court.
After that I expect even more unhinged tariffs using whatever rationale they can muster with whatever lawyers are still on their payroll. Wheels are definitely starting to come off at this point.
like, wouldn’t it be easier and more NATOly to just politely ask for some space for a military base for that Golden Dome project or whatever? I get that Russia and China are irredeemably evil and resources should be kept out of their hands to help them collapse, but, how is behaving like the evil we’re supposed to be against gonna help?
We already have a base there, and they offered to cooperate with additional requests, so the whole thing is really just Trump’s stupid ego chasing after something stupid he said and now feels the need to follow through.
Also seems like threatening more tariffs sort of puts into question his prior justifications for them.
Trump declares the US doesnt need anything from Canada. What does the EU/Nato need from the US? Other than military support that is hard to value these days
The EU is finally getting the message. You cannot do any kind of deal with Trump. He will never stick to it.
EU is now willing to play hardball.
The plug is expected to be pulled on Donald Trump’s tariff deal with the EU by the European parliament on Wednesday after the two biggest blocs of MEPs said they would halt the legal ratification process in response the US president’s latest threats.
Manfred Weber, the head of the European People’s Party, the largest voting bloc in the institute, said “approval is not possible” in light of the latest events.
The remarks were backed by the second biggest voting bloc, the Socialists and Democrats (S&Ds).
like, wouldn’t it be easier and more NATOly to just politely ask for some space for a military base for that Golden Dome project or whatever? I get that Russia and China are irredeemably evil and resources should be kept out of their hands to help them collapse, but, how is behaving like the evil we’re supposed to be against gonna help?