“An electron can be sourced from coal, gas, sun, wind, or uranium; a combustion engine is married to a single fuel that must cross someone else’s chokepoint.”
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!
The EU should have been doing this just as much as China, and for the same reasons, but nobody was wiling to pay the insurance premium up front. Now we are getting dragged along in the undertow of US and Chinese energy policy.
https://www.ft.com/content/2f13778e-5946-450b-9df3-84c907a032c0?syn-25a6b1a6=1
The ‘new joule order’ is here. The west is last to realise

Electrification is the purchase of optionality and China bought more of it than any nation in history

Financial Times