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Fast EV Adoption is the Road to Beijing

If you ain’t first, you’re last

By James Dickson · July 12, 2024 ·

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Earlier this year, I did a Detroit TV news show, Let It Rip, on the supposed rise of the electric vehicle.

My panel mate warned that if American companies did not respond to demand, Chinese companies would.

That was odd, I thought, given the difficulties American companies have selling EVs. Since Thomas Edison walked the earth, range anxiety has been the top worry among people considering electric vehicles.

James David Dickson is host of the James Dickson Podcast.

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