Chinese buy more than 500,000 EVs per year not including Teslas. Their target is urban air pollution, not some imaginary energy benefit.
“Chinese buy more than 500,000 EVs per year not including Teslas. Their target is urban air pollution, not some imaginary energy benefit.”
And they’re serious. The rest of Asia still drives gasoline scooters - in China they’re now all electric. Probably several hundred million.
It would be reasonable to expect the same for cars, although it won’t help much, due to their very high use of coal - just moves the problem a bit outside of the city centers, but even that doesn’t help, as the pollution cloud literally covers the entire eastern half of the country.
Short of going all-out nuclear and closing their coal-fired electric plants, they’re still going to have a really tough time with pollution...but at least with electric vehicles, they have that option (and maybe a few others).