....this is a good story of how when we leave it to the free market, they lost the opportunity to dominate.
....America cannot pin subsidies to blame for why China has leapfrogged above it in solar and EVs.
....US free market enterprise won't go big into something that makes little money, despite Govt encouragement.
....What US lacked that China had was unity of purpose - both have large domestic market, but China was prepared to do it and scale it for low margin because they saw a larger picture. Cheaper energy costs underpins low cost produce industrialisation to be the world's low cost producer.
America was once a solar superpower. Then, it lost to China in the race to become the world’s biggest source of electricity. @davidfickling traveled from Sichuan to Michigan to find out how this all happened
