As the rest of the world goes increasingly ‘green’, with wind, solar and the electric car taking over sales, Trump has killed the market in the US, increasing tail pipe emissions, diluting pollution laws and removing rebates and incentives for electric cars, making China the new world leader in automative technology, innovation, production and sales, even as Climate Change is becoming more of a problem.

 Under the second Trump administration, the E.V. tax credit was eliminated and tailpipe-emission standards were gutted, which more or less instantly drove down sales of new battery-powered vehicles and encouraged the so-called Big Three — Ford, G.M. and Stellantis North America, the maker of the Dodge, Chrysler, Ram and Jeep brands — to refocus their considerable resources on trucks and plus-size, gas guzzling  S.U.V.s.