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from the Detroit-on-another-deathwatch-and-still-doesn't-know-it dept.
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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @07:58PM
This.
Normal gas can: Oh the spout isn't long enough! It's okay though, I'll just force the flap open with a screwdriver and pour it in.
"Safe" California gas can: Oh the spout isn't long enough! Wait! I can't hold this screwdriver in place to hold the flap open at the same time as I'm pressing the spout down to open the valve! Dammit! Now I've got to do some weird contortionist moves to actually be able to pour the gas in and I still end up spilling half of it on the ground...
Leave it to California to have their new safe and "environmentally friendly" innovations result in gasoline being spillt on a puddle on the ground, wasted. I bet these are the same "environmentalists" who think that cars sitting idling in traffic going nowhere is good for the environment, because it will convince us to take public transportation or ride a bike instead. LOL!