Don’t threaten me with a cleaner environment.
JUST
DO IT
Hell, make it 100%.
All countries
100% import taxes on all ICE
Make people demand EVs
Motivate countries to produce in-country.
Do it. The attractiveness of EU cars in China has a lot to do with expression of wealth, status, and exclusivity. It’s free marketing.
Make a cheaper model aimed at the market to offset the tarrif and the logo on front will sell itself.
According to this reddit post many European car brands are offering massive discounts to compensate for lack of sales.
China is already at around 50% of new cars being plugin electric
Had.
Slapping tariffs on your largest export market is such a big brain move.
Err, I’m pretty sure most European car makers manufacturing their Chinese models in China. A tariff would be largely meaningless. The EU officials basically told Chinese makers to do the same - bring the manufacturing here to avoid tariffs. Sounds like this might be a political move on the Chinese side as to not appear weak.
