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Submission + - Tesla imports $29,000 USD ($39,490CAD) Chinese made Model 3 Premium to Canada

Submitted by ArmoredDragon
ArmoredDragon writes: After Canada dropped its 106.1% tariff on Chinese imports to 6.1%, (which is Canada's standard tariff rate for most favored nations) and raised 25% tariffs against the United States, Tesla moved its inventory manufactured in Fremont, CA back to the US and began importing its Shanghai produced Model 3 to take advantage of the lower rates. This presented a problem for the Canadian government, which currently has a 49,000 unit cap for Chinese vehicle imports, as Tesla already had all the necessary infrastructure in place to begin shipping and distributing cars, where the Chinese competitors such as BYD do not. By becoming the first mover, Tesla would consume most or all of the 49,000 cap before any other competitors have a chance to sell any units.

It's worth emphasizing that this is the premium version of the Model 3, not the newer but lower cost Standard version. It also appears to be made to the same specification as Tesla vehicles that were already being sold in Canada, including using the US EPA standards for EV range estimates, as opposed to the more internationally used WLTC or NEDC standards, or even the Chinese CLTC standard. Deliveries are expected to begin no later than June.

Comment Re:Next up VI? (Score 2) 45

by bobthesungeek76036 (#66116258) Attached to: Notepad++ Finally Lands On macOS as a Native App

Anyone who uses vim on the regular is a masochist. Yes it's good to have some basic knowledge of it since it is the one and only editor that is guaranteed to be on a *nix system and may be all you can use if the system is in a seriously fucked state. But any other reason there a fuck ton of other editors, most already installed in most distros by default these days that are miles saner to use on the regular.

You think VI is bad, older *nix systems had dynamic libraries that were not part of the root filesystem and VI was one of those that was linked to said dynamic libs. So if the system was fucked, VI was not available. ED was it. Period. I've had to rescue many a system using my ED skills. Does that make me a masochist? Damn straight.

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