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How the West Lost to China in the EV Race
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I would guess it is simple, we have big oil lobbies and China is a big oil importer.
It's more down to domestic auto industries blocking imports of foreign EVs, which kneecaps competition and leads to complacency among domestic producers.
Yes, we are going into a "Second Malaise Era" of automotive companies for many of the same reasons. The fact that this is happening as car companies are switching to electric engines spells longterm disaster for the US automotive industry in a way the First Malaise Era did not however, they will be left too far behind to be competitively recoverable.
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2011/05/what-about-the-malaise-era-more-specifically-what-about-this-1979-ford-granada/
Letting in just a few Chinese EVs would do wonders to reinvigorate Detroit's innovative engine. We'd see actual competence for once. But it's easier to erect walls than actually do something useful.
I think the more destructive force is US business culture among the upper class is not actually concerned with reality but rather with imposing a set of beliefs on workers and the company they work for that are completely and utterly unconnected to reality.
US automotive executives will and have done this exact same thing over and over again, according to their theology treating their worker's worse, micromanaging them and denying their ability to organize is the superior path forward, period, no matter what the evidence says. This is an axiomatic belief not one they arrived at through careful observation of what actually happens in real life or that they are willing to re-evaluate.
What we are seeing now is this same disastrously incompetent class of wealthy families' useless Ivy League grads have become comfortable enough outright with endorsing MAGA that they have explicitly adopted fossil fuels into their theology of money, efficiency and market competitiveness be damned.
This endlessly confuses "non-political" people who lean fiscally conservative because they truly believe economics is a scientific method of understanding humans and their interactions rather than a religious belief system that caters to the ruling class and polices class hierarchy.