(Darron Cummings | AP)Ford is making a multibillion-dollar bet on electric vehicles. That would be not just cheap for an electric vehicle but competitively priced for a truck — period. They’ll be assembled in Kentucky, with lower-cost lithium iron phosphate batteries from a Ford battery plant in Marshall, Mich. All together, it’s a $5 billion investment for Ford. Chinese automakers are pushing into markets around the world with appealing, competitively-priced electric vehicles. China’s automotive vision and influence are on display at the Beijing auto show The latest electric vehicles are on display at the Beijing auto show.