How 2 South Korean Companies Have Managed to Terrify Ford, VW, and the Biden Administration

The stakes are so high that SK innovation will be forced to settle

Steve LeVine
The Mobilist
Published in
6 min readFeb 12, 2021

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The ID.4, VW’s answer to Tesla’s popular Model Y. Photo: Jens Schlueter/Getty

This is a story of cutthroat technological war, unfathomable corporate animus, a new kind of economic nationalism, and great power competition between the two most powerful leaders in the world. The…

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Steve LeVine
The Mobilist

Editor at Large, Medium, covering the turbulence all around us, electric vehicles, batteries, social trends. Writing The Mobilist. Ex-Axios, Quartz, WSJ, NYT.