This reminds me of the wailing and gnashing of teeth about Japanese cars in the 1970s. There was a lot of woe is me back then too. Australia has lost its domestic manufacturing capability thanks to GM, Ford, Toyota and Mitsubishi pulling out when the government refused to keep subsidizing them. We now have an unbelievable array of imports. Those complaining about screens and interior design should look to home. Tesla started this nonsense. As for style, we anre inundated with ugly huge and very conservative looking trucks and suvs from the US, the usual quirky Japanese and European imports and shiploads of Chinese Evs. Yes the Chinese cars seem a little gaudy, but fuck, they’re just cars. Here, in March BYD was third highest selling car in the market overall, not just for evs. They are great vehicles, and everyone I know that has one loves them. That market share is sure to grow as Evs make a hell of a lot of sense while the theocracies (US, Iran, and Isreal) are beefing it up in west Asia and screwing up the rest of the world’s energy supplies. Energy security is real, and electricity doesn’t need ships.
