I am in the oil and gas industry and also the power industry specificity solar so I have spent much time in China the largest producers or high tech panels bar none and also Russia for that matter I speak Russian it was my required foreign language in university as a undergraduate. I learned it specifically to do geology in that market and they paid me handsomely for it. Moscow is baller but nothing compared to modern China again it’s a 19th century city by comparison. Same for my beloved NYC the subways are all 19th and very early 20th century relics. To get from JFK to midtown you have to take the Airtrain then transfer to the NYC metro system with luggage and with all the underclasses. In Shanghai you get on a maglev that does 268 mph as smooth as butter and it whisks you in 8 min to the ultra modern clean main station where you then get on well maintained metros to all over the megacity or get a robotaxi directly to your swanky hotel.
Yeah this.
https://www.travelchinaguide.com/cityguides/shanghai/getting-around.htm
As for China they easily have a billion their cities are teaming with the mass of humanity. Like I said visit Shanghai or Beijing or port giant of Tianjin, Shenzhen/ Hong Kong metropolis is also a prime example of masses of double digit millions closer to triple digit millions in most of those MSA areas.
China is a one party state that is run by engineers and scientists not lawyer’s and liberal arts retards they have special economic zones which are effectively cronie capitalist megazones as long as the party gets their cut they fully back the market. Again one party two China is the mantra. They are limiting the numbers of people who can leave the rural because of the flow of mass humanity to their booming mega cities not in spite of it.
Again the USA better put party politics aside and put engineers and scientists in charge of building out the much needed infrastructure of the 21st century.
As for EVs China leads the way because they are dense, urban and petroleum poor they import most of it but they have huge deserts and lots of windy mountains and not afraid of 1 million volt DC lines to send that power to the cities in the east.
They also are building 150 new nukes on top of that. The nukes alone take care of their light duty vehicles total miles per year. The average Chinese light duty vehicle drives 10,000 km a year mostly due to the fact that they have high density cities there’s somewhere between 350 and 500 million light duty Vehicles expected to be in China and the very near future their numbers look very similar to ours
Here is the math for the USA to do the same.
[Electrifying all US light-duty vehicles with energy efficiency similar to a Tesla Model 3 would require approximately 825 TWh of electricity annually, which could be supplied by about 117 1-gigawatt reactors operating at a typical capacity factor.]
Total Miles Traveled and Efficiency The total annual miles traveled by US light-duty vehicles is approximately 3.3 trillion miles. An average Tesla Model 3 efficiency is about 250 Wh/mile
3.3X10^12 miles/year} X 250 Wh/mile =8.25 X 10^14 Wh/year
This is 825 TWh/yr
A 1 gigawatt (GW) reactor (operating at 100% capacity) produces 1 GW X 8,760 hours/year = 8,760 GWh/year. Assuming a realistic average capacity factor of 90% for a nuclear plant:
Energy per reactor =8.76 TWh/year X 0.90 = 7.884 TWh/year
825/7.884= 117 reactors
This is a completely doable number the United States has 92 reactors as it is of course not everyone would drive a model 3 but it gives you the idea what a five passengers sedan driven by the average person would use
For giggle I ran the math for semi trucks using the Tesla Semi which does 82,000# full up loads at 1.7 kWh per mile PepsiCo has over a year of real.world data backing that up now in hilly California at that.
To electrify all US semi-trucks, approximately 300 to 500 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity would be needed annually, requiring the equivalent output of roughly 34 to 57 1-gigawatt (GW) nuclear reactors.
France has more than this in a country 20,000 sq miles SMALLER than Texas.
The total annual distance traveled by all US semi-trucks is approximately 300 billion miles per year (or 300,000,000,000 miles/year). To power these trucks using a Tesla Semi’s average efficiency, approximately 510 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity would be required annually. This amount of electricity could be generated by approximately 58 continuously operating 1-gigawatt (GW) nuclear reactors
Nukes are forever energy it is that simple.