Chinese Electric Cars Cause Fear And Loathing In High Places

The Chinese are coming! The Chinese are coming! That’s the refrain that is rocketing around the corridors of power in the UK and the US today. Top Gear , known for its whimsical embrace of everything weird in the world of automobiles, reports that professor Jim Saker, president of the Institute of the Motor Industry, recently issued a warning that Chinese built EVs could be used by Beijing to destabilize the UK economy. How would that work,exactly? Saker cautioned that hundreds of thousands of EVs could contain spyware allowing them to be immobilized remotely by officials in China, causing British roads to grind to a standstill. He…