In Western markets, large SUV and pickup truck sales have hit new highs. “[I]f SUVs were a country, they would be the world’s fifth-largest emitter of CO2,” Patrick Schröder wrote this week. “By comparison, electric vehicles (EVs) … still only account for roughly one-tenth of total passenger car sales in the United States.”
In Western markets, large SUV and pickup truck sales have hit new highs. “[I]f SUVs were a country, they would be the world’s fifth-largest emitter of CO2,” Patrick Schröder wrote this week. “By comparison, electric vehicles (EVs) … still only account for roughly one-tenth of total passenger car sales in the United States.”
Meanwhile, in China, sales have soared—and the country, which boasts the world’s largest EV market, exported its vehicles at unprecedented rates last year.
How did China come to dominate the global market? Why has Tesla, a U.S. company, underperformed this year? And what do U.S. and European tariffs on Chinese EVs mean for the green transition? This edition of Flash Points seeks to answer these questions and more on the geopolitics of EVs.
China’s Global EV Domination Is Just Beginning
The West isn’t ready for it, FP’s Howard W. French writes.
If SUVs Were a Country
Western governments are not confronting the threat they pose, Patrick Schröder writes.
Is Biden Deferring the Green Transition to Contain China?
Electric vehicle tariffs put geopolitics before climate change, Robert A. Manning writes.
The Fight Over China’s Electric Cars Is Upside-Down
Paul Hockenos considers why Europe’s car companies are against—and environmentalists are for—making Chinese EVs more expensive.
What’s Ailing Tesla?
FP’s Cameron Abadi and Adam Tooze discuss why more people are buying electric cars, just not from Elon Musk.
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