EVs are moving at a snail’s pace because the batteries underlying electric cars have been limiting. Namely, they don’t last very long, take forever to recharge, and often need replacing. And the EV Revolution can't go mainstream until we make better batteries.

U.S. companies have, for decades, outsourced supply chains to China, India, and other parts of Asia, where labor is cheap. The problem therein is that those emerging economies do not have the same resources as the U.S. to handle the Covid-19 pandemic, and therefore, they are a few months behind the U.S. in terms of controlling that problem.