The geopolitical baseline for Europe is often determined by the economics of their situation. In 2024 approximately 408,000 cars from China were sold in Europe. For 2025 that number is now expected to exceed 700,000 units despite tariffs.
Previously we highlighted the short-term ramifications of the European Union push to force the sale of electric vehicle (EVs) upon the consumer base. {SEE HERE} EU automakers unable to meet the compliance goal began purchasing carbon credits to avoid stiff EU fines. Many of those carbon credits were purchased from Chinese automakers, who then turned around and started using the extra EU revenue to discount Chinese cars sold in Europe.
In essence, EU car companies started subsiding China to undercut their own market. An outcome of the EU chasing the ridiculous green energy project throughout the European free trade zone.
Now reports are beginning to surface of how the non-EV segment of the industry is being lost to less expensive Chinese hybrid autos that: (1) are much cheaper, (2) not bad in quality, and (3) are not subject to the 35% EV tariff rate.
The EU tariff applied to gasoline powered cars or hybrids from China is 10%. That tariff is not enough to stop the imports. The Chinese hybrid autos are substantially less than European car brands, and there’s no financial incentive for China to build auto plants in the EU zone especially when you consider the EU is subsidizing those cars by purchasing carbon credits.
When analyzed from a cost and consequence, the entire EU dynamic toward car companies is a little funny. However, for Germany this is a serious issue, and with the German industrial economy already stagnant – every impact to their auto industry only makes the situation worse.
When you overlay the big picture of their expensive “green energy” costs, the EU find themselves in an unescapable downward spiral. Quite literally, all commonsense seems to have been lost in their green energy chase.
By focusing on energy targets, specifically by trying to force production of European electric vehicles that are not favored by European car purchasers, the EU is shrinking their economy to the benefit of Beijing exploitation.
EUROPE – This year, sales of Chinese-made cars across the EU, UK, and EFTA are expected to exceed 700,000. This is up significantly from the 408,000 that were sold in 2024.
The surge comes despite the fact that additional tariffs of up to 35 percent, on top of the existing 10 percent import duty, were instated in November of last year.
Rather than dampen demand, the tariffs have simply redirected it. While the added fees specifically target EVs and extended-range electric vehicles, hybrid and internal combustion engine (ICE) models remain subject only to the base 10 percent tariff.
Predictably, Chinese brands have leaned into that category, shifting their European strategy toward models that sidestep the higher costs.
Thanks to significantly lower production costs, up to 30 percent cheaper than in Europe, it doesn’t make financial sense for these brands to relocate production just to serve a tariff-guarded market. Instead, they’re exploiting the gap. (read more)
The only Chinese auto plant current in the works for construction is in Hungary, not coincidentally the country with the most common sense as it applies to energy costs. BYD (Build Your Dream) is building a plant in Hungary expected to manufacture 150,000 units/yr.
While most EVs are generally best for short duration use, the Chinese hybrid vehicles are not a terrible build quality if you are an auto purchaser that changes vehicles frequently. We dodged a bullet by electing President Trump in 2024, because Joe Biden (Blackrock) had positioned the North American auto industry toward a similar fate as currently happening in Europe.
Three Chinese automakers were going to spend $5 billion in Mexico creating new EV and hybrid vehicles destined for the U.S. market. However, Beijing abandoned those plans as soon as President Trump won the election.
The Europeans and leftists in the U.S. scoffed at President Trump for rejecting the premise behind the Green New Deal, which included electric car mandates. Those same Europeans are now watching as their industrial economy collapses segment by segment; taken over by far cheaper Chinese industrial outputs.
In Canada, Mark Carney has 91% of his investments in the USA,He was head of Brookfield.He moved Brookfield HO to the Caribbean and skipped out on paying 6 billion in taxes in Canada.He is moving all his banker buddies into the government.
. His Brookfield buddy signed an 80 billion dollar deal with the USA for nuclear reactors to be built in the USA.
He is all in on trading carbon credits, carbon storage, and EV mandates. He is making Canada into the EU, deindustrialized top down dictatorship with lots of censorship.
He is also launching digital ID in partnership with the EU. He isn’t Canadian and cares nothing for the legacy Canadians of European origin.
We are screwed, and anyone with technical or manufacturing skills will leave for the USA.
Canada is governed by the Brookfield Party, not the Liberal Party.
You dodged a bullet with Trump, but if your Senators and Congressman do not pass laws that codify all those EOs you will be screwed down the line. Good luck to us all
Your federal gov’t also has a secret quota of 100,000/mo. Free flight, 5 star, med, dental and a loaded free credit card. Most immigrants bring 5 children, eligible for monthly gov benefits, with the as well. 75/89 % of Canadians have no skills to market.
Canadians are Government run health care. The Canadian Government even offers its citizen assisted suicide. Glenn Beck is arranging for a Canadian Lady to get a life saving operation in the US. She was offered suicide in January and was offered no treatment in Canada. It is already a dystopia.
Natives with the help of Liberals have frozen most of the land in BC. A hotel was going to be purchased by a group of Canadian Investors but they could not get clear title. The CCP bought the hotel.
think of it as abortion for adults.
Since MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) became legal in Canada in 2016, a total of 76,475 people received MAID through 2024, with 16,499 provisions in the latest year (2024) alone, showing a slowing growth rate but steady increase in use, accounting for about 5% of all deaths in Canada, according to Health Canada reports.
Remember the “death panels” that Sarah Palin got ridiculed for? This is what it meant in real life. Rationing of care and quality-adjusted life year (what is the cost to extend someone’s life for an extra year, and if it’s more than someone’s calculation, then they don’t get any extra care). Now, we all may have to make those type of heart-wrenching decisions sometimes and I wish for no one that they have to decide at some time the fate of a loved one, but in this slippery slope scenario when more and more costs go toward sustaining a bureaucracy and less and less is available to actual medical care, more and more people start getting the MAID treatment. How many people went in slightly complaining during COVID, could have gotten better with HCQ or Ivermactin, but instead got a ventilator and then never came home? The medical industry can be heartless sometimes.
The medical industry is increasingly run by politicians and not doctors.
Most doctors only knew what the CDC told them and they just believed it and followed it.
They were told by many of their patients but not only refused to believe it but refused to do any research on their own. I cut them no slack.
Exactly why Big Pharma and Big Healthcare need to be broken up into smaller pieces without Big Insurance calling the shots. Sick people need to be treated with care not like they are a number without meaning. Now you get a minute with a doctor and they try to sell you some drug.
Here in the states we have corporate subsidized socialist “health” care. We pretend it’s private, we have just adopted the fascist form of socialism (corporate/government rule), vs the traditional Euro style direct government managed socialism. Both systems are not viable for creating excellence through competition and both lead to corrupt and despotic governance shared by the same kleptocratic class.
Didn’t Canada vote for carney? I’d say yes they did. Sucks for Canada when most of the citizens choose to cut their own throat.
The boomers in Toronto caught Trudeaumania in 1967,its like herpes,you have to die to be rid of it, Ottawa is the company town,there are 100s 1000s government workers,they vote for the company,Quebec gets 13 billion a year in transfer payments from Alberta they will also vote Liberal or Bloc.
The young and the working class are screwed
The eastern big cities decide elections,the west and rural Canada dont count
Get Alberta out of Canada
Maybe they did, and maybe they didn’t. Isn’t Canada home to one of the leading voting machine conglomerates?
I cannot believe the “Liberals” in Canada are more honest than our Democrat/Communist/Islamists here. Canada has not had a fair election in as long as the US. But there are a lot more Communists in Canada. It cannot be saved.
Carney was appointed to lead his Party, which held a Parliamentary majority. Then, to become PM he was elected in a small safe riding (district). He was elected by a few thousand against no opposition.
He was not elected to lead Canada in the sense that Trump was elected to lead the USA.
Brookfield screwed up in Australia. They invested in private hospitals which all went bankrupt
“The reason Healthscope, its 19,000 staff and dozens of hospitals across the country are in this mess is precisely because its former private equity owners – the $US2 trillion Canadian group Brookfield – couldn’t make a buck from the business and walked away.
It was an easier option than dealing with the extravagant rent agreements Brookfield had agreed to, the massive debt load needed to finance the deal, and a post-pandemic world that quickly shredded the Canadian group’s business plan.”
Walking away from a private hospital sector that provides about 70 per cent of elective surgeries in Australia – taking immense pressure off state and federal governments in the process – is not a great way to win friends here.
These governments will be on tenterhooks again. The receivers’ job is to maximise returns for lenders, not taxpayers who will foot the bill if less viable hospitals are left stranded by the wheeling and dealing that has ensured plenty of work for various investment bankers.
https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/have-they-learnt-nothing-radical-surgery-only-option-for-hospital-giant-20251210-p5nmhc.html
The fear is that Trump merely postponed this in the USA for his 4 year term. Once the leftists get back in the WH they will implement the same destructive nonsense.
Re: climate change, green new deal, electric vehicles, self sufficiency, economy, states redistricting congressional seats, affordability
As the dems, rinos and media attempt to have people forget the coercions through their propaganda of (afordability, epstein, govmt shutdown, egg prices, ukr, health etc.) and try to get people to forget their:
(jab or jobs,
ev’s over gas,
illegal border crossings,
cost of living (rent) rising,
high inflation,
high interest rates,
rising credit card debts,
expensive wars,
bad trade agreements,
rising national deficit,
double standard laws,
fake economic data,
higher taxes,
excessive regulations that choke businesses
lots of government jobs that do not produce anything useful, living off of taxpayer$)
of the prior dem administration(s)
prior congressional district maps that favored dems having more seats, more miss representations…
The attempts to make people forget, should and will be remembered via reminders from we the people,
on a frequent basis
so as to avoid ever having it (bad, and more bad) happening again.
People know
Love thy neighbors
When I lived in germany I saw all the parking garages where there were readerboards to tell you how many open spaces they had, germany basically put an excise tax on gasoline to discourage people from driving, auto auto uber alles turned into stau stau stau auf der autobahn, wir fahren nirgendwo, auf der autobahn, so not just pollution, but the roads were dang closed because too many cars, nowhere to park, all locked up, big dog traffic jams and a lot of wasted time and money and people sitting in their cars going nowhere angry and frustrated, and EVs hybrids wont fix that
We are witnessing a race to the bottom with the EU. The U.S. was living the same treasonous act from 2020/2024, we saw the birth of these actions start under Barack Hussein Obama.
We know the game, destroy the country or continent so badly that its citizens (slaves) begs the government to fix the problem they have created. Just look at the $$$$, and man hours needed to clean up the mess within our great republic, open borders destroy sovereign countries.
We the people rather than just complaining and commenting. Need to speak up and stand up. We must be ready to rise up en mass! We cannot ever go back. No matter what!
In Miami FL less than 38,000 people voted in an election where over 2.5 million people were registered to vote, handing the city over to a democrat for the first time in decades. If people are so stinking lazy they can’t go vote to keep their city out of the hands of a demon democrat how is anyone going to get them to stand up or speak up?
Exactly. Now, anybody have any good ideas how to get the non voters out and support conservatives? I tried to get my local senate district to find people with skills and offer 1 hour free training on anything. “Brought to you by local conservatives”. Getting to know people and give them a contact and source of info was the secondary reason. Nope. Change is not allowed! “We need to send out crap telling people to vote, just like we’ve always done, to no avail.”
Show yp and show out isn’t always bad advice….just sayin’.
Europe is 100% committing top down suicide. If they cant replace or euthanize their people fast enough. They will do it the old fashioned way.
WAR.
No more genocidal European Wars!!!
It seems like a crazy strategy to kill everyone just so you can rule over ashes, but demons do come from hell.
The EU and Dems are using the climate scam to try to control/subjugate the people. The goal is to make it too expensive to drive far, or at all, for the middle class, and control energy use generally. They can use carbon & social credit scores to control people…. I need to see your papers, comrade. So-called green energy is merely the vehicle that the govt & corporate globalist fascisti are using to…
My maternal grandparents came to the US from Germany in 1925, between the wars. Hitler was starting to stir things up.
I’m glad they did. I’ve been to Germany and it was great when I was young but I wouldn’t want to be in Germany now.
I don’t understand the self loathing and destruction they are putting themselves through. Come to think of it… the leftists want the same here. Ugh.
My father was a Buick man. I have remained true to that tradition. lol
I love the German engineering of the late 20th century. Some coming forward. My condolences to the people of Germany.
The German Autobahn was built largely to allow quick military movements of troops and equipment. It was copied by many other European countries.
Imagine how much havoc would happen if during a military crisis if all those Chinese made EV “kill switches” all clicked off at the same time. All the roadways would be clogged with stuck vehicles and panicked people, left in the middle of the highway.
Our interstate highway system came to be under President Eisenhower. Ike rose as a US Army logistics guru to become supreme commander of the Allies in the European theater of war in WWII.
As the Germans and the Romans before them knew, the US needed to build out superior roadways for moving men and materiel.
to surround our city’s. the new mason dixon line is the city limits.
100%
These are supposedly “allies”.
They are wrong on Russia.
They adore China.
They are deliberately demographically suicidal…
Who are these people??
Remember when the BMW was the “driving experience “?
Well now it will be Chery the Chinese driving experience.
Has anyone with a brain thought about parts and service for these cars?
Didn’t think so.
They will need parts and service. The quality is exactly what you don’t want. Everything breaks. Also we will have beautiful Chinese EV fires all over the place. Some of them actually blow up.
The best vehicle I ever owned was a 2007 Toyota Prius built in China. I gave it to my daughter in 2001. Except for eventually replacing the brake pump and hybrid battery array around the 15-year mark, it was running fine until my granddaughter totaled it last year. The guy who bought it as salvage very likely rebuilt it.
An EV would not work well for me, but a new hybrid would be ideal.
The EU globalist oligarchs are hazardous to the people and businesses in the EU. We need a divorce from Europe.
Uh, make that “I gave it to my daughter in 2021”, not 2001.
The west is going to eff it into oblivion and not even care.
The only response to this is to also make hybrid cars that are better quality at competitive pricing. That is President Trump’s plan by bringing car manufacturers back to the U.S.
Obviously Ford and others can still make their unbeatable 150s and such, along with hybrids. Perhaps keeping the size smaller and less expensive to compete in Europe.
President Trump did make comments on the tiny cars, as he called them, that he saw in Japan and asked CEO of Ford if they might be interested in making some for our market. I think students and others might be interested in them while at university.
Competition is the power behind all great inventions. This time it would be wise for manufacturers to keep their science and technology under tight control.
Bring to market a DIESEL-HYBRID. That I would definitely be interested in………..
Ok, but I like the F250 turbo diesel ….alot.
Dallas to El Paso with Ac at 80 mph….26 mpg.
Do you know what he was talking about? And tiny cars might be alright if your not hit by anything bigger or it’s just a death trap.
The small cars would be perfect for University Students living in small college towns. An inexpensive purchase for autonomy.
US imported 950,000 cars
US imported 2,600,000 light trucks
2024
Bring them all back to the US
“the entire EU dynamic toward car companies is a little funny. ”
Yup, cracked up laffing as soon as I started reading.
I wonder how any EV, Chinese or otherwise, performs in a European winter. Not much warmth, not much range driving a limpmobile.
And what the EU greeniacs will never understand let alone admit, their misguided green policies on EV’s are actually causing more traditional autos to be sold, and instead of EU first, keep the money local, it is going to some other country.
I think our brilliant founding fathers would look at this today and say “we were right”.
Are Euros really going to have time to work with prayers 5 times a day?
Morons! Hoisted on their own petard!
Thats my President. Gettin it done
Europeans. Plummeting birthrates. Cities forever ruined by the 3rd world replacement of whites, godless pagan culture in complete rebellion against God. They deserve to be extinguished .
This is a great X post by Lara Logan.
This is about what Putin said, but it certainly drives home the state that Europe is in, which is about all these Chinese cars.
“Vladimir Putin said this week that he doesn’t fear the United Kingdom as they can’t even stop rubber boats invading their country or foreign men raping their women & children. Plus he said the British people hate their leader””
https://x.com/laralogan/status/1999929990809592255?s=20
Hi Sundance. Are you aware that in Australia we have massive grave yards of brand new BYD autos just rotting away because our stupid government gives China the green credits for everyone it imports into Australia, not every one it sells here so they just keep shipping them in and parking them up.
Stupid Eurocrats
China and Islam has conquered the EU
“… because Joe Biden (Blackrock) had positioned the North American auto industry toward a similar fate as currently happening in Europe.”
The judges would have also accepted “(D-Beijing)“.
tiny car … “very small car”
POTUS bringing ‘Tiny Car’ production to USA https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f1fa-1f1f8.svg🚙
The EU is a DEATH CULT. All that is happening PROVES IT! THE Elites get RICH, EU Citizens get SCREWED
I suggest we seize Canada as a territory, much like Puerto Rico, and govern it sanely.
“EU car companies started subsiding China to undercut their own market”
…indeed…. so the German car manufactures can keep selling their luxury brands BMW etc in the Chinese market .
I can say only one thing to Europe: “We can’t save you from yourselves.”
If you think that the Planet will jump for joy, because you have decided to fuel your motor-cars with coal, you are being insanely stupid and we can’t tell you that.
But of this I can be quite sure: your people are not asking you for this. They’re not nearly as stupid as you are, so why are you inflicting your stupidity upon them?
It is still very strange to see Chinese EV’s and ICE cars with the “MG” logo on it. I remember that marque being British, sporty, and kinda reliable if you knew how to fix cars and their Lucas electrical systems.
(Rover sold its MG trademark and branding to a Chinese company in the late ’00s.)
Gavril Princip what did you start? It’s never stopped since that day.
EU politicians can’t be that stupid to allow the destruction of the EU economy, member states and cultures without actual willful and knowing malfeasance.