Trump told autoworkers the other day that the electric car will put an end to the American car industry – and thus, put an end to their jobs as autoworkers as there won't be many jobs left when a car becomes an extruded plastic body dropped onto a generic "skate," the underlying and homogenous made-in-Chyna components of a battery-powered device.

But will also put an end to the Japanese (and German) car industries. It will put an end to the car industry being the point he missed.

Honda is a company that is known for its engines, among these benchmark designs such as the Compound Vortex Combustion Chamber – CVCC  – engine that powered Civics back in the '70s. This engine was so clean it did not require a catalytic converter to achieve federal emissions certification for sale in 1975, the year practically every vehicle available for sale had to have a chemical exhaust scrubber – which is essentially what a catalytic converter is – in order to be legal to sell in the United States.

Honda also produced incredibly efficient cars like the '80s-era Civic CRX HF – which had an engine that could deliver better than 50-miles-per-gallon with a carburetor. This is nearly as efficient as the best hybrids are, today.

In the early 2000s, it made the most fuel-efficient hybrid yet offered for sale by a major car company, the Insight. This car was capable of traveling 70 miles on a gallon of gas.