Vaulting (Volting?) over EV Auto Solutions

America's Automobile Industry Misses the Boat Again

Several recent articles in the Wall Street Journal have told of the embarrassing cornucopia of Chinese electric vehicles in European auto shows, and the glaring absence of any German or European candidates for a new “peoples car” in the coming electric nirvana. Other stories, such as that by Kim Mackrael and William Boston regarding “EU launches Probe of Subsidies Of China’s Electric-Vehicle Makers” illustrates the typically irrational response of a non-market based economy to unmeetable competition. Other stories, such as that of Jennifer Hiller in that same September 14 edition, reveal “U.S. Plans Push to Upgrade Fast Chargers”. It seems that, even if we buy batteries and assemble cars from China in the U.S. as our own automotive behemoths desperately lurch toward erasing tailpipes from our highways, we may enter an unknown period of Soviet-style queues. Only this time it won’t be for Saudi or Venezuelan or Russian oil, since our ample domestic supplies are democratically off li…