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Electric Car Investment Envy Spawns a ‘Tax Break Industrial Complex’

Automakers, battery suppliers and state officials aren’t particularly transparent about how much public money is going to projects.

Construction of Ford’s electric-vehicle manufacturing complex in Tennessee has begun.

Photographer: Houston Cofield/Bloomberg
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The electric vehicle revolution will be subsidized.