Inevitable

Colias, who has covered General Motors and Ford for the Wall Street Journal for over a decade, reports the electric-vehicle transition the way a beat reporter reports a slow-motion crisis: from inside the boardrooms where executives argued over how hard to chase Tesla, and from the factory floors where powertrain engineers who built their careers on internal combustion watched their expertise become obsolete overnight. The book's value is in its specificity — it names the internal fights, the missed timelines, the supply-chain gambles on battery materials — rather than treating the EV shift as an abstract inevitability. Colias doesn't romanticize the transition; he documents an industry lurching toward electrification under competitive pressure while its own workforce and culture resist the change.