Looks like the electric car is here to stay, especially in the US. The vast spending power of the US federal government is unmatched and so when it decides to do something, it can move markets and shape the economy.
The best, and by far biggest, example of this was the decision in 1961 to send a man to the moon by the end of the 1960s; the resulting flood of spending spawned waves of innovation and technological breakthroughs. It literally rocketed America’s post-World War II economy into the
