Incumbent auto companies were only threatened by EVs, and USA drivers are sort of bimodal, some like EVs and lots want the big SUVs, so US automakers were not q

Incumbent auto companies were only threatened by EVs, and USA drivers are sort of bimodal, some like EVs and lots want the big SUVs, so US automakers were not quick to get going. Investing in replacements for oil seems problematic in some very politically important areas. It would have been completely impossible for either of the last two presidential administrations to get any sort of national policy working to really accelerate EV adoption. The author is pragmatic in saying that the Chinese govt may be favoring this industry to take over the world, and doing unfair this and that, but the results will be facts regardless of how they came to be. Chinese vehicles will still need to meet US safety standards, their brands will need acceptance by large enough numbers, and they will co-exist with gas in everyplace ill-served by electric infrastructure in this large country, but they are coming. Sadly, the American auto companies will have densizitized everyone to all their data being collected and shared by unfriendly parties, so the Chinese won't be that different.