Here in the U.S., we're slogging through the most contentious election cycle in modern history. And the role of electric vehicles in our future automotive landscape—where they're built, how many of them will replace new gas-powered cars and how they're incentivized—will be just one of the hot-button issues for voters to decide. In the meantime, politicians on both sides of the aisle hope that slapping tariffs on EVs from China will protect our market from competitors that are both vastly more advanced and far cheaper. But that's not going to work for long, and a quick jaunt over to Europe shows us why.
