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Cash is King and Cars are Dumb

The Jacob Shapiro Podcast

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The Pyrrhic Victory of Electric Vehicles

The Chinese Communist Party said five, 10 years ago that they would dominate electric vehicles. "I have my doubts about whether electric vehicles are going to be the answer here," says CNN's John Sutter. The flip side of that is that cars don't really make sense in cities at all, he adds. But maybe China chose a lemon and it wasn't such a smart idea to decide to become the center of the electric vehicle universe.

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