Robert Bryce

Robert Bryce has been writing about energy, power and politics for more than 30 years. His first book, Pipe Dreams, spotlighted the rise and fall of Enron. His sixth and most recent is A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations. He writes regularly on Substack.

The drive toward electric cars has been a disaster

Just two years ago, Mary Barra, chief executive of General Motors, declared: “We believe in an all-electric future.” She went on to claim that the challenges her company was facing in the EV market were merely temporary bumps on the road to net zero. But as Bob Dylan famously observed, things have changed. On January