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Inside: How the US lost its lead in EVs and other clean energy inventions

By Shannon Osaka and Naema Ahmed

Washington Post·

8 mins to read



A suite of government incentives and policies has swept China to the forefront of the market for EVs, solar panels and batteries. Photo / Getty Images

China calls them the “new three” – electric vehicles, solar panels and lithium-ion batteries – a set of technologies to replace the country’s previous export focus on furniture, clothing, and household appliances.

And those technologies have something in common: they were all invented in the United States.

Since the early