I would point more to the disruptive nature of EVs and the stale stance of overlobbied/-lobbying western car manufacturers. Tesla shows that you can sell a boatload of EVs without solely relying on China manufacturing.
The western car politics are plainly anti-consumer and China paved their way to be the leader in a sector that doesn’t exist anywhere else.
Europe is actively rowing against an inavoidable - because so much better there isn’t even a contest - change just because manufacturers slept and gorged on a couple of decades of thick profits abroad and taxpayer funded lifelines when they shamefully struggled.
The US is broadly worse, while also having some promising companies like Tesla and maybe Rivian that could really make a difference
The world is electrifying while US and EU industry decided to ignore it, then the US war gave everyone the final push to buy panels and cars. Those people are never going back to oil.
I mean this was the inevitable outcome of turning China into the worlds factory
I would point more to the disruptive nature of EVs and the stale stance of overlobbied/-lobbying western car manufacturers. Tesla shows that you can sell a boatload of EVs without solely relying on China manufacturing. The western car politics are plainly anti-consumer and China paved their way to be the leader in a sector that doesn’t exist anywhere else.
EVs also act as a kind of catalyst to electrification. Home solar becomes really interesting with EVs and leads to more heat pump use, too.
Also, short- and medium distance cargo transport are becoming electric, and I hope agriculture follows, too, which would be huge.
Europe is actively rowing against an inavoidable - because so much better there isn’t even a contest - change just because manufacturers slept and gorged on a couple of decades of thick profits abroad and taxpayer funded lifelines when they shamefully struggled. The US is broadly worse, while also having some promising companies like Tesla and maybe Rivian that could really make a difference
Tesla and Rivian only cared about the high profit luxury market.
indeed, we went solar and heatpump in '24, then ev in '25. Had ebikes for some time
The world is electrifying while US and EU industry decided to ignore it, then the US war gave everyone the final push to buy panels and cars. Those people are never going back to oil.
Something something the means of production