Vehicles existed before 1990, (my year of birth)???   I thought y'all pedaled things Flintstones style.

Yes, but considering I was born in '76, I was just a wee lad when they came out.

2016 Lincoln MKC Order Guide.pdf

Yea, DARPA is heavily involved in battery R&D. Their ExPEDitions program will kick off in January 2027 with the goal of developing rechargeable batteries with energy densities 5-10 times higher than those of existing systems.   State governments have also invested in EV related technological research. In my home state of Indiana, Purdue University and INDOT for example have worked with automakers and suppliers in this regard.

Correct. The PRC is not loaning money, they are granting it. Or just giving government / Chinese company IP to other Chinese manufacturers so they don't duplicate efforts. The US has been pretty hands off for EV development comparatively. 

That was a loan.

Ford got $9.3bn alone for BOSK and another $1.3bn in public funding for the Battery Park in Michigan. The US government until recently was also the essential source of R&D funding, NIH, NSF, DARPA, etc. The $7,500 tax credit to fund purchases was similar to what constituted the bulk of Chinese gov subsidies, and it plus CAFE credits essentially funded and created Tesla as it is today. A lot of this was pulled back once Trump came in. We absolutely did support EV manufacturing, only really Tesla was taking it that seriously before 2018.

As rmc523 and Sherminator98 suggested, it's the usual FordAuthority speak. You know what that means. 😄   Jimbo mentioned more than once that UEV product launch is an Apollo style mission with little margin for error. Nothing less than "at scale, at cost, on time" is acceptable. You can bet Ford's "air traffic controllers" are hard at work figurin' out how to "land the plane on mass production of UEV."

Not as great as the late 70s dentsides.    

No we are not.  The Chinese gov't did a lot of battery R&D and battery production subsidizing battery purchases by the mfrs.  Huge financial advantage.