Outside voices: On whether less-expensive Chinese EVs will drive ‘new trade restrictions’

Major bumps in the road loom for the U.S. auto industry as electric vehicles proliferate, the biggest of which is China’s seemingly inexorable march to a major position, possibly the dominant position, in world markets, warns Robinson Meyer, a New York Times contributing editor, in an op-ed this week. The “biggest threat” to the major U.S. makers “comes from a new crop of Chinese automakers,” primarily BYD, the hybrid and EV company, with astounding growth and an array of new...