Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars::The change to planned rules was an election-year concession to labor unions and auto executives, according to people familiar with the plan.

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    9 months ago

    The geopolitical calculus here is about manufacturing.

    If China owns EV production lines, that gives them the drone advantage in the next war, as the Li-ion battery is the hard thing to make in a drone.

    If USA has EV lines, even if it’s more expensive, we have the resources to make drones as well. (Or Li-ion batteries in other useful weapons).

    Ceeding the military advantage to the Chinese for some cheap consumer goods is a bad tradeoff, especially as China is building a Navy to fight us in Taiwan.