Tobin Harshaw, Columnist

If EVs Are the Future, the Future Is a Long Way Off

Teslas may be sexy, but China is taking the global lead by making electric vehicles more affordable.

December 28, 2023 at 7:44 PM UTC

Tobin Harshaw is a Bloomberg Opinion senior editor and columnist on national security and military affairs. Previously, he was deputy editor at the op-ed page of the New York Times and the newspaper’s letters editor.

BYD is stacking them up.
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Do you love your car? I love mine. To a Tesla owner, this would seem pathetic: It’s a 10-year-old down-market German crossover that’s just the right size for Manhattan driving and just the right vintage for me not to flip out over the nicks and dings that appear like stigmata every time I park on the street. It is not, alas, electric — parking garages in NYC have little interest in using their extortionate monthly fees to install charging stations. How extortionate, you ask? “Paying for one month of parking in New York City would get you almost two years of parking in Tulsa,” the New York Times noted last fall.