Sales of Electric Cars are tanking

Where are you getting this nonsense from - China is one of the most polluted countries on the planet and is in no way anywhere near European levels.

Yes I've been using that for a bit, but I just realised something today which was staring me in the face and now it sounds a bit obvious to mention but as you made that post, the Brits were just starting their day, where in China they were just finishing. This is why we can't just look at it and do a  like for like. What their news was saying was there were dramatic improvements in the highly populated city areas which run along the coast, like Shanghai. There is often higher pollution as you go inland and up to the north where the population is far less. I think the reason for this is the rare earth production. I've heard it from the Chinese people themselves that working in that sector and region is very hazardous to health. The thing is their rare earths supply the whole world. What is wrong with India is the level of the peaks, as per well into the danger area.

Nobody wants Chinese EVs Baron.
We want reliable cars capable of long range travel.

Are you aware of the sequence of events re EV cars manufacture in China?

It's to do with Elon Musk, who gets talked about a lot. He goes right back to the dot com bubble and was involved in Ebay/Paypal. Many of his associates at the time are very rich and are involved in social media sites. I thought Musk was part of the US PLC, such as those like Jobs, Gates, Soros, the owners of Amazon, Facebook, Google etc. It turns out he is autistic, and many think he is one of those autistic geniuses. It's predicted by the end of the decade his investments will be worth about one trillion dollars, as in just over 4x what they are now. I'd agree that qualifies him as genius. No one gave him the money. He built it up by taking the profits he made in earlier ventures and reinvesting.

Now where he departs from the programme is that he does not invest in the usual stuff of rich Americans but goes for investments to do with engineering, like cars, satellites and space rockets. America, by way of large faceless institutions like pension funds and banks has been steadily deindustrialising so a new car brand would never raise the finance. Musk though pays for this stuff in cash. Next up he departs from the programme to an even greater extent where the political direction is to decouple from China and set up offshore manufacturing in Vietnam and India, the latter being where Apple obediently went.

This is where things got interesting because I have since discovered that Musk has essentially the same view as I do on China. I never knew that at the time, but anyway, he defied the orders and decided to set up some large factories in China. Naturally the CPC were watching and for someone that rich and that nationality to say, no mate, I like the Chinese, well they rolled out the red carpet for him, and he became the first company to ever set up there who could do so without the need to partner with a local firm. It was a gift from the top, since he had stuck his neck out. China is very much liek that. You do a good turn to them and you can guarantee they will come back and say, thanks mate, here we can help you. It's a kind of civility the US government no longer practices. Musk is smart remember.

Anyway, this is where the butterfly effect really takes off. Musk's cars were developed with a lot of intelligent R and D. Musk loves technology and clearly employed the best US engineers to create them. They are rated as highly reliable, even compared to old hands in the game like the Germans. Musk got to work tooling up for production in China, and stipulated that his suppliers supply components to very high specification. This would have likely involved purchase of high spec machine tools and all that, but as they got it all sorted out so they created the parts to pass Tesla QC then of course the manufacturers and other brands started looking in and this created a huge jump in quality across China. Now all cars were supplied with top spec parts. Now the Western brands are totally fucked. You see their last weapon agaisnt China development was to claim they had the quality. Recall Tesla were achieving better quality-> China is now beating Europeans at the quality game. They are cheaper and higher spec. The is no trade-off. You may like to speculate whether hte CPC saw this would happen, or was it just a quirk of fate.

The outcome basically is European car sales in China are falling fast and Teslas are bucking the trend. Elon Musk is a hero in China. They love him, and see him as a proper revolutionary. You see the Chinese love their tech and he is the tech king, and he is working with them, not agaisnt them. Just as I said Britain should do, but Musk got there first. The early bird catches the worm and he has his. You can blame him for the rise of China's car industry. Yes they were shit 20 years ago. Now they are not.

Which of course makes net zero a farce, all we are doing is exporting our emissions, not achieving net zero. And of course when we produced things in he past they were our emissions but really belonged to the some of the rest of the world who imported all sorts of things from us.