Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Elections matter. Xi Jinping was elected President of China on March 14, 2013. As a scientifically aware leader with long-term economic vision, Xi Jinping implemented strong, aggressive cleantech policies that made China the global leader in solar power, wind power, ... [continued]
As much as the US is addicted to oil and is an oil state I don’t think it really has anything to do with the fact that electric cars are electric that makes them an existential threat to US culture, it is the fact that the entire ideology around building electric cars does not necessarily center cars as the future nexus of all advances in technology and society that makes electric cars by association an existential threat and not something collectively US culture can tolerate without aggressive backlash.
As much as the US is addicted to oil and is an oil state I don’t think it really has anything to do with the fact that electric cars are electric that makes them an existential threat to US culture, it is the fact that the entire ideology around building electric cars does not necessarily center cars as the future nexus of all advances in technology and society that makes electric cars by association an existential threat and not something collectively US culture can tolerate without aggressive backlash.