Let’s go for Chinese high speed rail across Canada. I think China needs an example to show how Chinese sourced development is an alternative to the US. But with the Nexperia incident, there has to be caution now.
The car industry for Canada would be important to displace the US there. Why not? Canada doesn’t have their own domestic cars. It’s a no-brainer.
I read that many different Chinese EV companies are using the same main guts of EV engines and batteries, mainly from CATL, and it’s only the design and bells and whistles that are unique to each company. Why not use that model so Canada can say they have their own EVs that they build for their own market? The important main components will still be Chinese. Is Trump going to cry foul when he wants US auto to leave Canada and back to the states? Then when Trump is out of office, Americans are going to see their neighbors driving superior cars to theirs and want that for themselves. They’re either going to import them from Canada or want that same relationship that they have with the Chinese EV industry and make their own EVs.
Look at how easy it for a company in China to become an EV company when they have no history in the car industry. That would be an example for any entrepreneur that has no connection to legacy auto in the US.
I use to live in a city that was big in ship building during WWII. That’s gone today and what’s left is legacy oil refineries. A large chuck of the city’s money comes from taxes from the oil industry. There’s controversy today because those oil companies are working to pay less in taxes which will significantly hit the city hard. So there’s debate if those oil companies should even be there anymore. What’s more appropriate for them to be replaced with an EV company. All the main basic infrastructure is already there.
They can’t do it like in China where provincial governments put up the money to create their own industries but plenty of Silicon Valley billionaires with venture capital down at the other end south of the San Francisco bay… Then there’s another controversy close northeast in another city that made national news where rich developers were secretly buying up land where they want to create a city for billionaires. It’s a perfect convergence. But then it all hinges on dinosaur US politicians thinking the US needs no one else but the world needs them.