With a Blockbuster Week, VW Has Ignited a New Phase in the Electric War

A multifront race in batteries, plants, and to be #2 behind Tesla

Steve LeVine
The Mobilist
Published in
6 min readMar 19, 2021

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Tesla Battery Day, Sept. 22, 2020, Musk, right, with battery head Drew Baglino. Photo: Tesla

In six months, the world of automobiles has raced decades ahead: From a mere aspiration, the mass-market electric vehicle is at once a very real object planned for deployment in three or four years by nearly every automaker on 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.