BYD overtakes Elon's Tesla. Why do EVs have geopolitical significance?

China has long been poised to dominate the global EV market, why does it matter?

When Rishi Sunak announced that the UK was delaying by five years the requirement for all new car and van sales to be electric, his critics rushed to accuse him of rowing back on net-zero pledges to shore up right-wing support.

Some of that criticism was fair. Sunak’s move came, after all, on the back of an unexpected Tory victory in the Uxbridge byelect…