Three years ago, Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA, hailed the arrival of the largest industrial investment in its history: a colossal electric vehicle battery factory anticipated to generate 2,000 jobs. Despite the factory's completion, however, the promised jobs have yet to materialize. Envision AESC, a Chinese-funded enterprise, put the brakes on its $2 billion factory project last September, and construction of another identical facility in South Carolina has also been halted. These developments underscore the transformative shifts occurring within the automotive industry.