Meeting China’s Push on Electric Cars
May 6, 2024
Chinese automakers are building “a new generation of bigger, more technologically advanced and competitive electric cars” aimed at expanding their sales worldwide, the New York Times reports. The plans only heighten the timeliness of recommendations that John D. Graham, Keith B. Belton, and Suri Xia offer in Issues for how US electric car makers, with help from the federal government and states, can compete. The steps won’t be easy. But given China’s penchant for “anticompetitive behavior,” the authors note, there is “no choice but to pursue industrial policies that are not typical of a country that cherishes free-market capitalism.”