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Old 01-07-2019, 04:27 AM
barry12345 barry12345 is offline
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A northern European country has just been mentioned as having a thirty percent saturation level of electric cars already.

Since Chinese workers have seen a seven fold increase in wages over the last five to ten years. The vast majority of electric cars they produce there this year are not for export. The Chinese Volkswagon joint venture enterprise is to build half a million units this year alone. None of them for export. The Chinese citizens can now afford to purchase what they produce. So their overall exports have reduced from seventy percent to forty percent of production of all their combined manufacturing and this is still decreasing.

With their constantly rising wage scenario they are investing heavily in automation as well. Their secret is not a secret really. We in north America more or less watch Rome burn. In the two party system if one party does not function well for the public good. The population just gets another that does not either.

Where in the countries that have a single party system for all intents and purposes. These single parties have to develop formative industrial policies and social plans that their public understand. Plus they work. Or they will be put out of power forever.

An example of a government structure totally out of touch with the current picture. GM and Ford are leaving a sizable portion of their business in North America production wise. The government acted like this development was a surprise to them. If it was speaks serious volumes in itself. Developing countries today have a strong relationship between government and industry. Setting specific goals jointly both long and short range. North America needs basically a new strategy for industry. Moving manufacturing capacity out of their countries unless very special circumstances are present is not an option. When and if threatened by external factors. They usually just keep them out of their home market.

Sane joint planning for many years could have enabled high levels of electric car production in north America. Plus we could have supplied the best batteries to the rest of the world in the process. We in essence also just gave that all away.

Also when the electric car was in sight as a strong possibility in the future. The development components where allowed to go to China. Owned partially at the time by American corporations but now by the Chinese for all real practical purposes..

The north American public where never told that an American or Canadian company moving production into China. Automatically has to include the Chinese government as a joint partner in the enterprise. Surrendering all technology as well. This also means no income taxes on the population. The governments profit portion of the industry in all the joint ventures is the vehicle used. Their billion dollar heavily automated plant for automotive electric cars battery production should soon be on line.

Last edited by barry12345; 01-07-2019 at 01:21 PM.
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