Stick a fork in the road.
US automakers, ensconced in their Fox News enabled bubble, have been asleep, while Chinese engineers burned the midnight oil to produce EVs that, if they ever come to our shores (and they will) – will
mean the end of our legacy auto industry
Below, a cut down version of “Who Killed the Electric Car?”.
Between 1987 & now, so many autoworkers have been laid off, it’s not funny. I live in a GM town. We used to have 5 GM plants here, now there’s only 2 & those two plants only have a fraction of the people working that used to work there. Just think if GM hadn’t killed the EV. These plants might still be operational & thousands of people might still be working. & all the other businesses that depend on these factories ~ diners, taverns, etc. ~ might still be open & running. I was 27 in 1987 & I’m 65 now. I used to be an office worker for GM, I worked in their workers comp division. I too, was laid off.
Adding to your points, go look up the history of the EV1. When GM ended that project and destroyed all the cars, GM’s Asian partners and Asian competitors did not stop working on this technology. IMHO, it’s a classic case of Aesop’s Fable of “The Tortoise and the Hare” only in this case the Hare slept so long that it can never catch up.
infuriating that so many young auto workers do not understand the situation and voted for Trump.