Very true. The US did some protectionist things, and the current tax credits based on battery origin definitely count. In the end, the Japanese manufacturers

Very true. The US did some protectionist things, and the current tax credits based on battery origin definitely count. In the end, the Japanese manufacturers found that building factories in the US and filling them with US workers was way better than shipping cars from Japan. You have to wonder if the Chinese manufacturers would come to the same conclusion.