Last year, President Joe Biden set a goal for the United States’ transition to electric vehicles, while executives from carmakers General Motors and Ford joined him at the White House. Just last month, he met them at the White House again. Elon Musk, chief executive of electric carmaker Tesla and the only industrialist among Forbes’ 15 richest Americans, has never been invited . Instead, under his Build Back Better plan, Biden proposed additional incentives for consumers to purchase electric vehicles made with union labour. He also said that “Detroit is leading the world in electric vehicles”. As a researcher focusing...