A great article by Daniel. Finally. Thank you!
It's encouraging to see the tariff logjam on Chinese EVs start to break somewhere in the Western hemisphere. This means that they can get the full set of options that Europe has - the 'new' (last year's) BMW MINI should be available soon, too.
I'm not entirely against protectionism, but at some point, you're just hurting your own economy. In the US, uncompetitive American OEMs and battery makers are sheltered and getting increasingly irrelevant. It's a dangerous game to play.
Capitalism needs competition, not communist style prohibitions and monopolies and statist manufacturing. A little sheltering is fine, these huge tariffs on Chinese EVs and state controlled companies in competitive markets like Intel and such are damaging in the long term.