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: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @02:35AM
Once upon a time there were over 100 different auto manufacturers in the USA alone. Many merged or failed early, the next big round was during the 1930s Great Depression. In the "great recession" ~10 years ago, a number of established brands left the market. Here's a prediction for the next round of mergers, acquisitions and failures in the auto industry:
For the rest of the alphabetical list, see http://www.autoextremist.com/current/2017/11/13/a-brave-new-brand-world.html [autoextremist.com]
** Devs -- this is an article that I'd like to revisit in a few years. Is anyone working on an "auto-resubmit-story-at-future-date" feature?