The U.S. invented these technologies. Then China dominated them.
And those technologies have something in common: They were all invented in the United States.
Since the early 2000s, a suite of government incentives and policies has swept China to the forefront of the market for EVs, solar panels and batteries. But most of the world's clean technologies were initially invented in the U.S. In an alternate reality, the U.S. could have become the world's leader.
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