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In reply to the discussion: Chinese automakers want to come to US. They could be here fairly soon [View all]Miguelito Loveless
(5,580 posts)have worked overtime to discourage EV sales and with arrival of Trump that action moved into overdrive. All the players have scrambled to abandon EVs and go back to ICE (except Musk, who just abandoned selling EV's for his asinine "transportation as a service" plan and vaporware promises of selling a trillion dollars worth of autonomous robots). By these choices they are actively harming their customers, public health, and the climate. They have willfully ceded their futures to squeeze more money out of the past.
This is stupid on dozens of levels and ultimately they are setting themselves up for bankruptcy since the rest of the world (minus Russia) is moving away from oil. There are a finite number of people in the US who will keep buying pickup trucks and monster SUVs.
Will this happen overnight? No, but the infrastructure of the world is moving that way. The future is a speeding train and car makers have decided to lay down and sleep on the tracks.