A new report from the American Security Project warns the U.S. risks falling further behind China in the global electric vehicle race.

In Michigan, EV adoption is growing but still modest, making up about 4% of all registered vehicles in the state. That’s about 310,000 EVs out of eight million total vehicles on state roads.

Katherine Yusko, a research analyst and lead author of the report, explained the pace of EV sales in the U.S.

“They have slowed a little bit,” Yusko said. “They’ve been less dramatic than perhaps was expected, and this is in part because of the politicization of electric vehicles, their association with climate change, people worry. People have range anxiety. But nevertheless, the U.S. is still expanding.”

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