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>The rubber is about to really about to hit the road between climate policy and geopolitics. China is increasing dominating ~all the industries required for the

>The rubber is about to really about to hit the road between climate policy and geopolitics. China is increasing dominating ~all the industries required for the green transition. At this point there'd be no remotely plausible way to enforce a 2030 EV car requirement than to wind up with 70% of your auto market being Chinese EVs. It would be government mandated seppuku of basically all US / UK / European auto makers other than Tesla. I have long been of the opinion that the (first voluntary, now forced) push to EV is ultimately part of about making China into the next world superpower. To what end? Fucking beats me, I'm not a part of the Powers That Be(tm).

ZeroGravitas 3y ago
It wasn't the plan, it's just what happes when you get paid by fossil fuel interests to stick your head in the sand for a couple of decades. I'm sure lots of people got big quarterly bonuses along the way but eventually, reality catches up. So here we are, with China dominating: batteries, EVs, Wind power, Solar PV, HVDC transmission, UHVDC transmission, nuclear, hydro, high-speed rail, electrolyzers and probably others I've missed. Amazing what you can achieve when you actually try over multiple decades rather than hoping you'll be retired and/or dead by the time things come to a head.