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A Space Race, But For Transportation
We say we want to build things, so why don't we do that instead of not doing that?
Chad Kirchner
November 05, 2024
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Happy election day, if you’re reading this in the United States! There’s a lot on the line, and while I’m 100% certain we won’t know the results today — there’s going to be legal challenges — we have reached a milestone.
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Why Aren’t We World Leaders in EVs?
Patrick George, writing in The Atlantic, last week talked about how Michigan’s boon in electric vehicle production isn’t being celebrated the way you think it' would be. “Normally, an economic explosion of this magnitude would be the kind of win that any politician would fight for and hinge reelections on,” he states.
Democrats have always been terrible with messaging, but it really is a wonder why such a big win isn’t triumphed more. Why is it that there is so much negativity around electric vehicles, when it’s something that we should be triumphantly winning at?
It’s a good article, and you should read it. Some of it centers around things I’ve talked about, like the EV mandate that doesn’t exist, or that range on EVs is terrible even though people drive basically 40 miles per day on average. What I find interesting, and immensely frustrating, is why the entire auto industry is ceding ground to that messaging.
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Ford is halting F-150 Lightning production through the end of the year. Other mainstream automakers have slowed their collective rolls around EVs. Meanwhile, according to Ford CEO Jim Farley, he doesn’t want to give up his Chinese-made Xiaomi SU7 that he had imported.
Here’s the thing, if we really cared we could build stuff that good. Heck, we could build stuff that’s even better.
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