This book outlines a national strategy to build electric cars, buses, delivery vans, freight trucks, construction equipment, farm machines, industrial systems, batteries, components, and cleaner aircraft. Public investment should rebuild production capacity while creating safe and well-paid careers.
The chapters connect manufacturing with research in semiconductors, advanced batteries, robotics, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, biotechnology, medical equipment, materials science, aerospace, and modern production. Universities, community colleges, federal laboratories, medical centers, and regional institutes all have a role.
Publicly funded innovation should produce a public return. Grants and contracts should require transparency, safety, privacy, fair licensing, domestic production plans, worker training, competitive markets, and careful testing and certification before new transportation technologies enter widespread service.