Let’s forget, for a moment, about global warming and the environment, and just forget about the fact that EVs are cheaper and better to drive. Let’s talk about national security, the economy, and sovereignty. Because we can’t have it while we’re dependent on other nations for oil. Let’s transition to electric vehicles, of all types, and then we don’t have to worry about energy anymore. Of course, then we’re still dependent on China for batteries but that’s a different problem that we can actually solve.

Ironically the reason there’s so much lifepo4 batteries available from china is that there was a patent on the tech in USA, which is a factor in why nobody developed it, but china being china they didn’t care about the bourgeois patents and built up a huge industry around batteries - and now the patent expired.

And now they are starting mass production of sodium batteries that are not affected by cold, and solid state battery production begins next year.