It seems that electric cars have only just recently appeared on the roads. I’m currently reading in a book that in 1990, the Zero Emission Vehicle Program was adopted in California, which required that 10% of the new cars sold in California be electric (or zero emission). In practice, of course, they couldn’t manage it, and they only reached these ten percent by the time COVID came around, but now in 2023 it’s already 25%, meaning every fourth car sold is electric. But the fact that there was already a direction towards abandoning internal combustion engines in the nineties, despite only ten years before there was a major crisis among ICE car manufacturers in the U.S. (largely due to the arrival of the Japanese), from which not everyone recovered.
You found it interesting that in the US, there are actually plenty of car factories. General Motors Company, Ford, Stellantis (Fiat), Tesla, Rivian, Lucid Motors, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mazda, Subaru, Hyundai, Kia, Volkswagen, Volvo, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Hino Motors. Not all models are manufactured here, but the list of brands surprised me. I thought they mostly outsourced.
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