I drove three Chinese cars — here’s why they would clean up in the US

Indeed they do. It's like the entire Chinese EV industry looked at Tesla and thought "let's do that, but cram in even more tech features and online connectivity".

I'm not a fan, either.

Sounds like you're the target demographic for the Slate truck. Seriously, it's like you are the exact center of their product audience Venn diagram.

Almost everyone I know could absolutely use a small electric vehicle with under 100mi range, since almost nobody I know travels more than 100mi/dayor needs anything other than personal, usually individual transport. The obvious solution is public transit, but we all know how much the US likes to invest in infrastructure…

This has been true since the 70s, and there have been many attempts at making vehicles like this commercially viable but none have succeeded.

Turns out that while people may only need 30 miles of range and individual transport, they want a car that can do more than that.

And that "more" is apparently touch screens and impossibility of repair.

Oh no, Legacy automakers in the US refuse to innovate, Can't let the other countries vehicles in, that would cause a disruption.

Yeah that's corporate media for you