> In reality, amid an onslaught of Chinese competition, and falling sales, the West’s electric vehicle dream is quickly unravelling – and we need to relearn all

> In reality, amid an onslaught of Chinese competition, and falling sales, the West’s electric vehicle dream is quickly unravelling – and we need to relearn all the lessons in why grand, state-led industrial strategies never work. That is quite an astonishing comment for a story that is actually "another state-led industrial strategy got in on the game earlier and more completely than the free-market democracies could muster."