What market forces are driving the war against EVs?
The war on EVs is driven by the fossil fuel industry which includes car manufacturers. On every level, if you consider the complexity of manufacturing an electric motor and variable speed drive to a piston engine and gear box, the electrical components are far less complex. They take up far less space, have by far less moving parts and are far more efficient, both in manufacturing and operation.
Yet because the benchmark price is set by the traditional car manufacturers, the cost of EVs are similar to petrol, diesel and, in particular, hybrid vehicles. The tariffs will need to be extremely high to lock Chinese EVs out of the US market. This could conceivably lock the US out of any market without its own car manufacturing industry eg Australia.
That is, if that market isn’t already in the pocket of the US fossil fuel industry. In short, we are already paying far to much for EVs, a cost to the driving public and the planet.
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