This year will be the most volatile year for the electric vehicle industry. When China's electric vehicles continue to enter the overseas market, some old countries frequently break their defenses. Recently, BYD's "Trailblazer 1" cargo ship loaded with 3,000 new vehicles arrived in Europe from Shenzhen and docked at Bremerhaven, Germany. A number of ** in Germany conducted a live broadcast of the whole process, and went crazy about it for a whole week.
According to the Economic Weekly, China's first ro-ro vessel docked in Europe is a harbinger of overtaking German automakers in the global market, a declaration of war to conquer the European market. In the face of the menacing arrival of Chinese electric vehicles, Germany cannot stop it. The U.S. has already shut out Chinese cars through import tariffs, and Europe wants to keep Chinese electric cars out. The European Commission has previously conducted a countervailing investigation against Chinese EV manufacturers, but so far there are still big differences. Because the EU is worried that if it imposes punitive tariffs on China, it may invite China to double down on it. This is a bigger blow to European automakers that rely on the Chinese market. Europe can't do without the Chinese market, but China doesn't have a European market, and there are vast markets in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, etc., and Europe is not competitive at all in these markets, and there is no cost performance. Therefore, this is also the main reason why the EU has not been slow to start China's electric vehicles.
The United States is also actively advocating a move on China's electric vehicles, and recently the United States once again launched an investigation into Chinese-made connected cars under the pretext of "****." U.S. Secretary of Commerce Raimondo even said that if there are millions of Chinese cars on the roads in the United States, they are collecting data on millions of Americans every moment and sending this data back to China, they can make all these cars shut down at the same time. It seems that the last visit to China was hit by Huawei, which made Raimondo a little "crazy". As everyone knows, what the United States accuses others of is generally what the United States has done or is doing. And Americans are less and less convinced of these ridiculous remarks peddled by American politicians. Some people in the related comment area said, "I'm more worried about the United States**" and some people complained that "this is the reason why low-income people in the United States can't buy high-quality and inexpensive cars". At present, they can still buy Chinese cars from Mexico, but recently the American Manufacturing Alliance has been in a hurry, calling on the United States to prevent the import of low-cost Chinese cars and parts from Mexico, which may cause "extinction" to the American auto industry. Therefore, whether it is Europe or the United States, they are not so much sensitive as they are vulnerable, and they are powerless under a truly fair and free market.
More than 100 years ago, they opened the door of China with artillery, and now it is China's turn to knock on the door "Open the door, freedom**" except that China did not use artillery, blockade and aggression. The words "market freedom" were sung to us by the West in the past, but in recent years they have stopped mentioning them. At this time, the Europeans stopped talking about the "invisible hand" and began to advocate "** intervention", because their things began to be uncompetitive, and the only result of what was not competitive was to be eliminated by the free market.