As an addendum, if EVs are forced to become cheaper, all other cars must follow or go unsold. This is also a strategic entry for Chinese EVs into North America. They're such overwhelmingly better cars that they make all American cars look bad in comparison.
America yanked on the leash, but Canada's most populous province also has a large car manufacturing industry. All American brands btw, Canada has no national car brands.
Yeah when Paul trips on spice in the cave before fighting Jamis, the book goes full on psychedelic to try and help the reader visualize how it feels to see the future
It's 1k more than Tesla sold in Canada last year, and it's a ramping-up number year-over-year. Also, the comparison must be made to how many EVs were sold in Canada, not how many cars overall, and this is basically an extra 25-30% of the total EV supply sold in 2024.
This whole thing has been great to show libs that the US is an empire. If all that stops you from taking your "allies'" lands is politeness, and you have their economies tied to yours, and host your military on their land, those are vassals. Denmark has no recourse whatsoever to Trump deciding Greenland is his. It is a vassal state, and the US has kept up the kayfabe of mutual diplomatic honor and recognition only to keep its vassals docile.
On a Mercator map it's bigger than the USA. I don't think he's able to understand what a 3km ice sheet means for mineral extraction, and he's lived inside a solid gold echo chamber his whole life so I don't think he knows what polar climates are able to support in terms of agriculture or general habitability. I think he's looking at maps and seeing a really big piece of land basically next door and he wants to be immortalized
Positive sum entertainment is an incredible way to describe giving your money to a corporation in exchange for the hope of getting it doubled