Biden Moves EVs and Batteries to the Center of Economic Policy

He is selling his $2 trillion plan as a middle-class jobs program, but it’s also a weapon for economic war

Pete Buttigieg listens as U.S. president-elect Joe Biden announces his nomination as transportation secretary on December 16, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. Photo: Kevin Lamarque/Pool/Getty Images

On a coast-to-coast, New York-to-San Francisco trip in 1919, Dwight Eisenhower discovered that you could barely cross the country by car, the roads were so run down. After he became…