For better or worse, Chinese electric cars are coming to the US
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08-Mar-2024
Chinese battery electric vehicles, or BEVs are yet to hit the US market due to tariffs, but they likely will soon, and US officials are worried about the security implications.
Joseph Webster, a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center, writes that the cars pose complicated trade-offs, and “policymakers do not have a lot of time, as Chinese exports appear set to rise sharply amid their domestic price war and a growing transoceanic car carrier fleet.”
Read Webster’s analysis, “China has become an electric vehicle export behemoth. How should the US and EU respond”: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/china-has-become-an-electric-vehicle-export-behemoth-how-should-the-us-and-eu-respond/
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