The BBC and many other sources report:
The US car industry will be wrecked if President Trump relaxes emissions standards, California's governor says.
Jerry Brown said China would dominate car manufacture because it was heavily promoting the electric vehicles that would dominate the future.
He said huge investment was needed on electric vehicles, along with federal rules to encourage their purchase.
He said President Trump and US car-makers were "half asleep" and hadn't understood the scale of the challenge.
He told BBC Radio 4's Costing the Earth: "There will be a serious threat to the US auto industry.
Unlike many in Silicon Valley, Gov. Brown seems to want the USA car industry to survive this Chinese nationally supported onslaught.
While not specifically mentioned in the article, China is working on cars at all price points, not just early adopters that can afford a Tesla or other luxury car. The Chinese stuff may be junk now (think about the batteries in Chinese "hoverboards") but it won't be for long, they learn fast. Here's a little minivan that's headed to production, https://carnewschina.com/2017/09/28/new-photos-sinogold-gm3-electric-mpv-china/
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @12:19AM (3 children)
Gov. Brown also changed the law so that it's no longer a felony to knowingly infect someone with HIV. He's also billions in debt and has no way out other than to beg the rest of the country to bail him out. Businesses are fleeing out of state, and are being replaced with enormous numbers of homeless people and illegals, the latter of whom you're not allowed to arrest. California is lucky they have really nice weather attracting rich people to live there, because otherwise it would be Detroit right now.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Uncle_Al on Tuesday November 14 2017, @12:23AM
California is lucky they have really nice weather attracting wealthy Chinese to live there
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @12:27AM
The government created AIDS in the first place. Jerry Brown is just doing his part to help it spread.
(Score: 5, Informative) by NewNic on Tuesday November 14 2017, @01:12AM
California is far from the worst state in terms of debt. Yes, it has more debt than any other state, but it has a much larger GDP than any other state, it has more people than any other state.
https://www.usgovernmentdebt.us/state_debt_rank [usgovernmentdebt.us]
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