Why I Am Not Buying An Electric Vehicle

The environment is important to me. Clean energy is important to me. Electric vehicles? I’m not convinced. The United States can benefit greatly from renewable energy, but electric cars are not The Way. We in the US would like for manufacturing to return to our shores. Politicians believe that manufacturing means making the things that China is already making, like electric vehicles and batteries. It is my humble opinion that while green energy is of vital importance to the future of the US, I just don’t think that we can beat China at something that they have already gotten a head start on. How big of a head start? The US has roughly 239 gigawatts of solar capacity. China has added more solar capacity in 2024 that the US has to date. China didn’t accomplish this feat purely by being awesome. They did it by doing all the usual stuff that China does.