A sweeping portrait of the EV transformation and what it means for all of us. The question is
no longer if electric vehicles will happen or even when they'll happen but how. Veteran
automotive reporter Mike Colias takes you inside the transformation in this thoroughly reported
profile of the hard pivot in the car business a $2 trillion industry undergoing the biggest
change in its 120-year history--a change that is already sending ripples across the entire
global economy. Colias documents the inevitable shift from pistons to electrons from every
angle taking you inside the boardrooms where executives battle over their EV strategies to
take on Tesla and more recently emerging Chinese powerhouses such as BYD. He brings you to
family-run car dealerships deciding if they'll sell EVs--or sell their businesses. He follows
entrepreneurs along lonely stretches of road that will soon need charging stations. He talks to
power-train engineers whose skills were once the beating heart of the automotive industry but
who now find themselves being replaced by coders. This is an epic exploration that stretches
from Detroit to Japan to Germany to China and from factories in Normal Illinois and Haywood
County Tennessee to a burgeoning mining operation along the shores of California's briny
lithium-rich Salton Sea. Inevitable is a deeply enjoyable and smart book that uses masterful
storytelling to capture the expanse and dynamism of the transition to electric vehicles in
profound detail bringing to life its seismic effects on everything and everyone.
