They do have a lot of coal plants for charging.
When the battery dies does the owner just buy another car and also keep paying for the old car? or do they buy another battery for nearly the price of the car? Does the car work without the battery?
Either way the owner is out a lot of money when the battery dies.
“They do have a lot of coal plants for charging.”
China is petroleum poor, yet electricity rich. They have the urban density to make EVs and hybrids the dominate choice and they are 51% of the largest auto market on the planet as of last year is EV or hybrids.
China has 30 new reactors in construction as of this year and is planning 150 in the next 15 years. They have built their Tianwan 6 reactor from first shovel to critical in 61 months.
They also have built huge solar fields in the deserts and run massive HVDC lines to huge converters that feed the one million volt AC distribution lines in the high density western China. No one anywhere is doing power transfers of this scale they are unmatched in size and capacity.
https://globaltransmission.info/chinas-sgcc-makes-progress-on-1000-kv-sichuan-chongqing-uhv-ac-line/
They have huge wind fields also feeding HVDC and that massive HVAC grid. They h he more than enough electricity to have billions of EVs this has been their plan all along. Eliminate imported hydrocarbons by using nukes, solar ,wind and in the beginning coal. They import most of their coal so that is also marked for replacement it is a national security plan for them.