The US also has huge trade deficits in mangoes and sports shoes. So what?

Only idiots like Trump think all bilateral trade flows should balance.

Sure they do. It’s double down on ICE and block the import of foreign EV.

Well, we've artificially inflated the price of steel, electronics and consumable resources like fuel and electricity required to build cars in the US. I can't imagine that we would even be competitive building anything right now.

I got an answer, give up and let the Chinese EVs in. or just reinvent public transportation for the future and stop wasting ungodly amount of resources for Ford F-150s everywhere

US won't have an answer. Obama invested in battery research, Trump shut it down, Biden invested in battery manufacture, Trump shut it down. During this time, Chinese industry secured a supply chain from raw ore mining to making batteries with patents. US has no IP in batteries.

Same thing is happening with drug discovery, it's all China for the next decade.

Seems like the simple solution is to buy their cars and focus on producing something else.

This is what happens when you let the oil industry and their lobbyists have unfettered control of the narrative and legislation .You get a huge number of politicians falling into their pockets, and progress is stymied at every turn.

It's actually kind of surprising America has made the limited progress on EVs that we have. But it's nowhere near enough. And now we are paying the piper.

SHOCKING REVELATION: US lacks clue

The headline suggests it’s a problem that the USA is working on. Evidence suggests that in fact the approach being taken is to imitate an ostrich, and bury the collective head in oil and gas money.

sure it does.

shitting your pants has worked out well so far, just keep doing that.

The US government is falling all over itself to fellate the oil and gas industry to protect their profits. They have blocked EVs in every way possible.

China doesn't give a fuck about the US Church of Profits and is building renewable energy and EVs faster than the rest of the world combined.

The west has already lost. China won. China will be in charge in the very near future.

If by "the U.S." you mean Bonespurs, not having answers goes without saying. But that aberration won't keep wasting oxygen forever.

Oh It does... They prevent China EV makers from partaking in their "free market" and force you domestic suckers to keep slurping up the status-quo.

The solution is putting their fingers in their ears, screaming "No one wants EVs anyway" "America no1!" "USA! USA! USA!".

You know, same solution they've always used.

Of course not, the current US government is actively hostile toward EVs and green energy. Why do all these headlines frame this as if it's so surprising?

US: shoots itself in the foot "WHY ISN'T CHINA LIMPING AS HARD AS I AM?!?!?!?"

This article wont go away

Was a loyal Ford (european) customer but I don't want an SUV version of the mustang, a massive truck or whatever the new 'Capri' is (its not a Capri).

And why are they all so ugly??

Wtf happened to Ford??

The answer continues to be: do everything it can to ignore China exists, and insulate the industry from having to compete.

I'm sure his answer will be tariffs because he's not about to invade China for their oil.

Setting aside fascism, the solution is expanded train infrastructure.

People in here are talking about battery IP but that's not as important as simple BEV production capacity. An EV is dead simple mechanically but you've gotta have the raw resources and factories to keep up. Even then, the US would need to do some major infrastructure upgrades to support a bunch of heavy and plug-hungry EVs.

Trains are a big investment but getting track laid and a few hundred thousand running is much more manageable than trying to replace ~280 million ICE vehicles (97.9% of all US vehicles in 2023).

I predict China is going to feel the same car dependence pain in a few decades if they continue to ramp production and climb the cars-per-capita leader board. It's crazy expensive to keep millions of people puttering around in multi-ton metal boxes.

I got to ride in a Li Auotmotive i9 Ultra the other day and it was amazing. Ridiculously luxurious and far ahead of tesla. Cheaper too. It had a fridge and microwave, and big screens everywhere. Its Lidar view of everything around the car was vastly superior to Tesla's, and it has about 15x the computing power of my model 3.

Greed, bad organization, bad design, too costly, invasive of owner's data, friends in the oil biz. Those are some answers, but not all.

No, our answer is that EVs are dumb and that oil is the only energy source that matters in this century and every century to come.

Make decent vehicles that don't spy on people or track them.....fucking morons

The answer for what? Is clear that the current policy is short term gains in selling huge overpowered gas trucks that are impossible to sell in the rest of the world, leave door open for Chinese EV, disappear into irrelevance in long term

Whenever the US car industry seems to be moving towards EVs a major correction takes place and more huge vehicles appear instead. They obviously aren’t serious and will go the way of the buggy whip if they can’t replace management with people who can plan for the long term.

I want those Chinese EVs so bad 😭

It's kind of 30th trimester. Too late for abortion Steve - China domnitates and we have no answer

The USA isn't exactly known for their cars. But even Germany has trouble making good cars nowadays.