Australia’s car manufacturing industry is basically non-existent, they import almost all of them. The EU and US have huge manufacturing bases they’re trying to protect
More accurately: American car manufacturers killed our local production.
Really? I don’t know a ton about this, but it looks like American and Japanese manufacturers are the only ones to have ever operated in Australia
I’m not super into cars, but it’s my understanding Holden was a local manufacturer that got bought out by GM? Or if not that, then they were making specifically Australian vehicles despite being part of GM, much like Ford Australia used to. Both ended up shutting down operations down here, so now we have nothing local.
So not the fault of USA manufacturers, but Australia’s incompetent leadership
No, not even close to that
Pour one out for the poor bosses at GM and Ford
We had Australian made and designed cars, then gm bought out Holden and ran it into the ground before shuttering the brand entirely.
American imperialism will never allow working, quality Chinese cars. You will buy Tesla and YOU WILL like it!
Chinese manufacturing won’t allow quality Chinese cars…
At least they won’t have them in the export line.
Why won’t they?
I don’t blame them. I used to look down on them until my mother bought a Chinese car and I was impressed by how good it is, not just for the price but full stop.
If EU manufacturers didn’t charge 35k for a car that barely fits 3 people, we wouldn’t need to turn to these chinese cars.
If China gave them away for free, the Sinophobes would probably still complain.
I imagine there’s a few things above sinophobia for the average car buyer. Just a few.
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Idk the US does that pretty well all on their own
Gee, shouldn’t we get rid of that software?
Would be better if they bought Chinese trains
Well, I feel misled. The graphic shows a Volvo as a Chinese manufactured vehicle.
Sales of Chinese made EVs in Australia
- Tesla - 46,116
- BYD - 12,438
- MG - 5,928
- Volvo - 3,949
They’re counting Tesla as a Chinese EV.
Where were they manufactured?
In China. But the majority of Teslas are manufactured are in China, and no one really considers Teslas “Chinese cars” or “Chinese EVs”.
So manufactured in China like the article says.
Doesn’t stop it from being misleading.
It’s called “burying the lede”.
It’s misleading based on your arguably less important criteria, but OK
Wow, you think Teslas are “Chinese EVs”. You’re literally the first person I’ve encountered to think so. Also why lead into an article with a graphic of the least selling vehicle?
In Australia they’re all manufactured in China. So it’s a Chinese car.
Cars in high developed economies like Australia have until recently been mainly manufactured in highly developed economies like EU, Japan, US etc.
Still, the BYD figure is nothing to be scoffed at.
Is this the free market?
If you’re wealthy.
Can I buy a, cough, Australian electric car?
