U.S. EV efforts are now showing national security purpose, not just climate or economics

A new policy brief from Stanford says the Biden Administration's efforts break with past U.S. industrial policies, focusing as much on national security and breaking reliance on China.

President Biden may have had a lot of fun flooring the accelerator when he tested a new Ford F-150 Lightning shortly after he took office, in a demonstration of the importance he was placing on transitioning American drivers to EVs.

But there was more to it than manufacturing, job creation, and peeling out.

Emerging analysis is pointing to national secur…