Understandable on a political/economic standpoint, but ecologically speaking it kinda sucks would have rather seen incentives for EU automakers to lower the overall price of EVs and maybe recoup the costs from ICEs.
NipahKing
Good on EU for taking a page out of Trump’s playbook. China has a long history of flooding markets with cheap products with the intent of putting domestic manufacturers out of business. Nothing wrong with a little protectionism.
DuncanIdaho88
Tariffs are like pissing your pants to stay warm. Chinese cars offer the same quality as European cars for a lower price.
More expensive Chinese cars are way ahead of other EVs, and far better for the environment than ICE cars.
The European Union didn’t contribute any to the production of these cars. So why should the politicians and bureaucrats profit from them?
Jolimont
Too bad. MGs are great cars (I put 40,000km on mine and LOVE IT).
DemoN_M4U
EU still don’t understand we need cheap chinesse EV’s if we want get rid of ICE cars in east europe. There shouldn’t be any tariffs on chainesse cars, atleast not in east europe. 25k euro isn’t affordable for people in Poland, Romania, Slovakia…
Tutorbin76
But hasn’t Europe already outsourced most of its manufacturing to China? What local car manufacturing capacity does Europe even have left?
Matt_NZ
More supply for Oceania then
maporita
Chinese cars are coming to Europe anyway. BYD has already announced a plant in Hungary to produce passenger EV’s for the European market. More are sure to follow. EU automakers can either get with the program and start producing affordable EV’s that consumers want or face the consequences.
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Understandable on a political/economic standpoint, but ecologically speaking it kinda sucks would have rather seen incentives for EU automakers to lower the overall price of EVs and maybe recoup the costs from ICEs.
Good on EU for taking a page out of Trump’s playbook. China has a long history of flooding markets with cheap products with the intent of putting domestic manufacturers out of business. Nothing wrong with a little protectionism.
Tariffs are like pissing your pants to stay warm. Chinese cars offer the same quality as European cars for a lower price.
More expensive Chinese cars are way ahead of other EVs, and far better for the environment than ICE cars.
The European Union didn’t contribute any to the production of these cars. So why should the politicians and bureaucrats profit from them?
Too bad. MGs are great cars (I put 40,000km on mine and LOVE IT).
EU still don’t understand we need cheap chinesse EV’s if we want get rid of ICE cars in east europe. There shouldn’t be any tariffs on chainesse cars, atleast not in east europe. 25k euro isn’t affordable for people in Poland, Romania, Slovakia…
But hasn’t Europe already outsourced most of its manufacturing to China? What local car manufacturing capacity does Europe even have left?
More supply for Oceania then
Chinese cars are coming to Europe anyway. BYD has already announced a plant in Hungary to produce passenger EV’s for the European market. More are sure to follow. EU automakers can either get with the program and start producing affordable EV’s that consumers want or face the consequences.