Tesla sues EU over tariffs on electric vehicles from China

[dmmacniel@feddit.org]

To me every Tesla electric car is a Tesla electric car. So apologies for my car ignorance.

[justjack23@slrpnk.net]

Yes and you can see the greed they have, not only they have lower tariffs that the rest of Chinese manufacturers, not only that they benefit greatly by these same tariffs because they cannot compete neither by cost nor quality, but they sue to be completely exempt from them.... Fucking pathetic...

Edit: typos

[riodoro1@lemmy.world]

Germany still isn’t closing his factory.

[bufalo1973@lemm.ee]

A nice way for Tesla to not pay those tariffs is to get the fuck out of the EU.

[cyberegg@discuss.tchncs.de]

The irony here is that the US' (Musk is now part of the government, mind you) constant threatening about tariffs on EU imports. But when someone imposes tariffs (that are lesser than on Tesla's competition) on one of their companies (and only products from one region), they gotta sue. Whiny little crybaby.

[geissi@feddit.org]

And why would they?
Afaik no European country just arbitrarily "closes" companies because of the behavior of one of their shareholders.

[30p87@feddit.org]

To me every Nazimobil is just a way to circumvent § 111 ("Public incitement to commit offences") on lemmy to not get banned, thanks to @Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org

[peter_arbeitslos@feddit.org]

To me every Tesla is just an unit or Nikola Tesla.

[boreengreen@lemm.ee]

Good luck with that

[tilgare@lemmy.world]

It wasn't your "car" ignorance that was the issue, it was your "failed to read the article before commenting" ignorance that was in question.

[dmmacniel@feddit.org]

I skimmed the article, how else would I have explicitly mentioned Tesla Shanghai? Also what is stopping Tesla Germany to also produce whatever Model? So this rattling by Tesla is just about not no longer be able to rely on cheap china labor.

[albert180@discuss.tchncs.de]

Why do they get lower tariffs?

[tilgare@lemmy.world]

It's certainly true that they're profitting off of the cheaper labor. I imagine their factory in Germany only has so much capacity and is tooled for manufacture of specific models. The original strategy with the resources they had lead them to break down their global manufacturing strategy in this way; but that's not to say they CANNOT do it differently, it just made fiscal sense due to probably a thousand different factors.

So I imagine that yes, they COULD move operations to the EU. But it's probably cheaper to fight legal battles and continue to operate this way for years while they're resolved in the courts.

[gissamittjobb@lemmy.ml]

Let's compromise by removing the tariffs and simultaneously banning Tesla in the EU.

[justjack23@slrpnk.net]

Good question, no good answer

[devfuuu@lemmy.world]

Does he think this is america where people just sue each other for no reason?

Fucking man child

[riodoro1@lemmy.world]

Even though he is openly fascist and supports far right party in your country with the money he got in said factory.

[tal@lemmy.today]

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/mercedes-benz-joins-geelys-court-challenge-eu-tariffs-china-evs-2025-01-28/

Mercedes-Benz joins Geely's court challenge to EU tariffs on China EVs

[asetru@feddit.org]

Iirc the EU did a big study on which manufacturer benefits how much from state subsidies in China and then set the tariffs accordingly for each of them.

[asetru@feddit.org]

Because the factory produces an entirely different model? Like, the machines don't manufacture the parts for the model they are importing from China? It's the same for every car manufacturer, they set up factories to produce specific cars.