Massive subsidies? Selling the cars at a loss? Using conflict minerals? Slave labor? All of the above?
Conflict materials can be avoided with LFP batteries that are basically only made in China.
Because US automakers and oil interest groups actively sought to keep the status quo?
The automakers less so. They don’t particularly care what powers the cars people buy, so long as people buy them. They were in the process of pivoting to electric platforms, but, being as terminally stupid as they are, a lot of that has been put on hold while they try to figure out why their current $100,000 offerings aren’t selling by the millions.
I am sick and tired of people claiming that BYD are unsafe They have crash tested better than my current vehicle.
Two paragraphs that don’t answer the question in the title, and a request for donations. Useless.
Putting aside politics, macroeconomics and questions about build quality, one unavoidable answer is…because they want to. The US should get more ambitious.
