A tentative cease fire in the trade war between the US and China may help lift Tesla to a record year in 2018. Green Tech Media says is expects the company to deliver 60,750 Model 3s in the fourth quarter.
The tariffs imposed by the Trump administration are encouraging Tesla to get its Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai built sooner so it can start manufacturing cars in China. The company says it costs up to 60% more to build a car in the US than in China.
Trade wars are easy to win, our own Dear Leader says. He’s right, but maybe not in the way he imagines. CleanTechnica readers of a certain age may remember a time a few decades ago when America imposed import tariffs on Japanese cars in an effort to protect US carmakers. The result? Japanese automakers soon built new factories in the US and began to push the domestic companies toward oblivion. Today, Toyota and Honda continue to crank out sedans built in America while the Big Two And A Half in Detroit have slashed sedan production to focus on the only vehicles they can sell successfully — pickup trucks and large SUVs.
MSNBC gets a lot of things right. In fact, it may be the best mainstream media outlet when it comes to focusing on what’s important and when it comes to keeping nonsensical political spin off its shows. However, it seems the outlet doesn’t know energy.
