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As we all know, President Donald Trump’s on/off tariffs will lead to a manufacturing boom in the U.S., with legions of former USAID workers happily screwing tiny components into dirt-cheap smart phones. Or… will it? @404mediaco’s @jasonkoebler talked to Todd Weaver, founder of Purism, creator of the “made in the USA” Liberty Phone. “The phone that you were able to manufacture in the United States is not as fast as the latest iPhone. Can the newest best chips and components be manufactured in the U.S., and what would it take to do it here?” asks Koebler. “The short answer is yes ... because you didn't ask me the timing,” replies Weaver.

404media.co/how-a-2-000-made-i

404 Media · How a $2,000 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured"You could count the number of skilled electronics engineers on US soil, and there's probably a million in Shenzhen alone."
#Technology#Tech#iPhone
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Day twelve cont ☢️🏭

“Coalition sources on Wednesday told The AFR that while the party would honour the NRF’s existing commitments if elected on May 3, the remaining funds would be put to other uses, including possibly the Coalition’s plans to build seven #NuclearPower plants across the country.

The Coalition will not scrap or exit existing #NRF (National Reconstruction Fund) agreements over fears that would create sovereign risk, whereby investors avoid making investments in Australia due to uncertainty about government decision-making.”

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“While the Coalition has opposed Labor’s off-budget funds, Dutton has said a future Coalition government would finance its taxpayer-funded nuclear power plants through a similar #investment vehicle.

Modelling by #FrontierEconomics commissioned by the Coalition estimates the opposition’s energy plan would cost $331 billion to 2050, of which the taxpayer-funded construction of #NuclearPlants would be a large component..”

There you go, $331B tax payer funded ‘never never’ nuclear technology ☢️ for power generation. 🤪

#AusPol / #Liberal / #LNP / #Labor / #energy / #manufacturing <archive.md/FLmBy> / <afr.com/politics/federal/coali> (paywall)

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charvaka

The ostensible goal of Trump's #tariffs is to bring #manufacturing back to the US. So let's see what it takes to manufacture the pants in the US.

Monthly minimum wage for garment workers in Lesotho is around $140. If a new US garment factory pays the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, that's around $1,250 a month, or 9x higher than Lesotho. So this is the math for the US garment factory:
$3 x 9 = $27 for labor
+ $3 for raw materials
+ $3 for fixed costs
= $33

3/n

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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"American car sales have been lagging behind their competitors for years. Ford and General Motors, once lions of the industry, now have a smaller market share than Toyota, Volkswagen, or Honda.

This isn’t because our major competitors are blocking American cars from entering their markets. It’s because people just don’t want our cars.

American manufacturers have tried to adapt to global tastes. Ever heard of the Ford Puma? You probably haven’t because Ford doesn’t even sell the small crossover here — it does sell it across Europe. To America’s credit, it was actually the bestselling car in the United Kingdom last year.

But a quick look at the list of most popular cars in the UK will show you that the Puma and the Model Y were the only American cars to hit the top 10 last year. For many consumers, American cars aren’t considered as reliable as Japanese models or as plush and tech-forward as German or Korean ones.

And even Chinese vehicles, which were once considered a non-entity in the global race, are starting to exceed Tesla in winning the race for the most electric vehicle (EV) sales.

A BYD car with an anime wrap. Photo by Joshua Fernandez on Unsplash
One reason why that might be is due to cost, but there’s also build quality. Teslas are known to have fantastic software and not-so-fantastic hardware, with panel gaps, creaks/rattles, and unevenly applied paint being endemic problems for their cars. One thing Build Your Dreams (BYD), the big Chinese EV company understands, is that you don’t want to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a vehicle that feels like it was put together by a toddler with a Lego set."

theamericansaga.com/p/does-any

The American Saga · Does Anybody in the Trump White House Understand the Automotive Trade?By Zaid Jilani
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