Featured Chip shortage 2.0 starting now. Goodbye affordable EVs and hybrids.

Your article is from last Fall just before tens of billions in value in AI investments were wiped out, which means there's going to be a massive amount of chips being manufactured for AI that aren't going to be purchased as planned: https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2026-02-16/big-tech-stocks-lose-billions-as-ai-spending-fears-hit-valuations

There's also lots of dishonest Enron style accounting going on with AI investment valuation: Report Details the Sketchy Technique Allegedly Inflating Valuations of AI Companies

However it is true that prices are going up due to general corruption, tariffs, inflation, supply and demand fluctuation of lots of other essential ingredients are inevitably going to make vehicles way more expensive than projected.