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Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car, Ending Decadelong Effort
(www.bloomberg.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
There's a tidal wave of "cheap and good enough" Chinese EVs starting to sweep the global market, fulfilling pretty much what you said. The new BYD Qin retails for $15,000.
If the US puts up protectionist trade barriers, the US auto market will turn into an enclave of gas guzzling SUVs, totally divorced from the rest of the world.
Already is lol. Ford I believe sells one car in the USA now, the Mustang. But they still sell plenty of cars overseas, including things like the Focus ST Estate that we never got here.