The forty-year-long rivalry between the US and Chinese auto industries. It’s a saga full of unlikely reversals from which China has emerged the victor. China now makes more EVs than all other countries combined.

This book is an eyewitness account of how the U.S. is fast losing its dominance of the global auto industry, written by THE “car guy” who has lived this story for his whole life, in China and Detroit. It features the most controversial and powerful players on the global stage: Presidents Trump and Xi, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett.

Car Wars is just part of the high-stakes, geopolitical struggle between Washington and Beijing that will determine whether America retains its economic and military supremacy in the decades ahead.

Americans don’t see Chinese cars on the roads because of sky high U.S. tariffs, but sleek Chinese electric cars are everyplace else in the world, from Australia to Germany to Brazil. Car Wars details how a band of scrappy Chinese entrepreneurs, supercharged with Communist Party backing, spent the last three decades building a gas-powered auto industry and then an electric vehicle powerhouse that has toppled legacy brands like Ford and GM from their once comfortable leadership perch.

Michael Dunne is an entrepreneur, author and keynote speaker. In 2018, Dunne founded Dunne Insights to deliver world-class advisory services on global electric and autonomous vehicle markets. Company leaders in the United States, Europe and Asia engage Dunne for expert knowledge, keynote talks and board level briefings. He speaks 12+ times a year to major groups and is widely followed on social media with 10,000 followers on X and 16,000 on LinkedIn.