How The West Lost The Automotive Industry And Its Mojo, Part 2

CleanTechnica
By David WaterworthMar 22, 2026, 9:18 pm127 ptsTrending
This is the second of three articles seeking to contextualise the failure of the West to grasp or even understand or manifest technological change over the past 15 years. The touchstone used here, and in our previous article, is “New Energy Vehicles” (plugin vehicles). The first article focussed primarily…

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