I'm not all that surprised, left to boardrooms protecting their profits, and unions protecting their jobs, progress like this is going to be fought hard and suppressed. If these groups wanted to make the change over to EV production for the betterment of our atmosphere they could easily have begun 50 or more years ago, Big Oil and Wall Street were too greedy to allow it despite the ramifications we now face,
If it wasn't for the Chinese govt. pushing ahead with strict mandates this transition would be delayed another 20 years or more. By pushing it now Chinese car makers are challenging the market to keep up with their production or be eliminated from the game.