A few years ago it looked like things would be mostly up and to the right for electric cars in America. Car companies were investing billions. Tax credits were doing their thing. There were bound to be stumbles, sure, but generally the odds looked strong for vastly more Americans to be plugging in by the end of the decade.
Then President Trump came into office for a second time and started breaking things. A new, wide-ranging report from BloombergNEF on the future of the global electric car industry surveys the damage.