‘It’s stupid’: why western carmakers’ retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/21/west-carmakers-retreat-electric-vehicle-risks-irrelevance-iran-war-evs-china

‘It’s stupid’: why western carmakers’ retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance

Iran war should be wake-up call about costs of not going full throttle towards EVs as Chinese have done, experts say

The Guardian

@Nigel_Purchase

What's that line about history rhyming rather than repeating?

We need to be asking our elected politicians exactly why they want to keep us dependant on oil - it is a fundamental supply chain risk for virtually everything, why do we keep swinging back to it?

The cynical may regard this as a rhetorical question - "duh! It's corruption!", but very keen to have some politicians asked about this directly and not allowed to fudge the question.

@mtnrbq65 @Nigel_Purchase It is because war runs on oil.