Chinese electric cars are driving into California as officials hit the panic button

A wave of low-cost Chinese-made vehicles is slipping into California through Mexico — and the issue is now headed to Washington. Panicked lawmakers are working to close a border loophole that allows cars that would never clear US safety or emissions standards to enter the country. In Mexican border cities like Tijuana’s Zona Río, dealerships are packed with new electric vehicles, hybrids, and SUVs, many of them Chinese-built and priced around $20,000. That undercuts the American market so drastically that even basic new cars cost far more in the US. Congress is now looking at the issue more critically, with...