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China has the world's most aggressive electric car goals. Communist leaders are promoting them to clean up smog-choked cities and in hopes of taking the lead in an emerging technology.
At the auto show, the global industry's biggest marketing event of the year, almost every global and Chinese auto brand is showing at least one electric concept vehicle, if not a market-ready model.
Heizmann said VW, which vies with GM for the title of China's top-selling automaker, expects annual sales of at least 400,000 "new energy vehicles" – the government's term for electric or gasoline-electric hybrids – by 2020 and 1.5 million by 2025.
The vast majority of Chinese get around by smog-free vehicles already. They're called bicycles.
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Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @12:04AM (4 children)
** Does SN have the possibility of a "tickler file"? This article should re-appear in a year, then we can check if 8% of the cars produced and/or sold in China are electrics as per tfs. The various electric car mandates tried here (California in particular) have failed spectacularly.
If most of their trips are short (within a metro area), maybe electrics make more sense for China. Ditto for charging, have they already started to set up masses of charging stations for apartment dwellers?
In terms of suitability for purpose, have Chinese families (with income to afford a car) spread all over the country the way they have in the USA? Or, are most families still clustered near their parents/grandparents? Even if most US trips are short, people aren't all that excited about renting (or owning two cars) to also cover the few long trips they take each year.
(Score: 3, Informative) by edIII on Friday April 28 2017, @12:13AM
Having visited China, I believe that would depend on the city. Not everyone of them is the same, built the same way, etc. A lot of variation throughout China.
As an example:
Some cities have the majority as bicycle and foot traffic.
Some cities have the majority as mopeds and rickshaws.
Some cities have the majority as small cars.
Some cities have the majority as regular cars you would see in America and Europe.
It was quite amazing to see all the variations that they had. Their version of the interstate highway system is well traveled and pretty much all buses and cars. In some cities though the car is a liability as I was not able to get around that well at all with all the bicycles and/or mopeds surrounding us.
That's my experience of being in 20+ major cities and rural areas over the course of a few weeks. About 10 years ago though, so it could've easily changed.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by ledow on Friday April 28 2017, @08:43AM (1 child)
That would be a killer feature.
The number of times that I'd like to be able to flag a comment to let me reply / update / "I told you so" in a few years time from its posting.
If we could have a article "be Revisted" and be shown your original comments on it, so you could do that. I fear the codebase isn't designed to allow such things easily, though.
(Score: 3, Informative) by tibman on Friday April 28 2017, @04:39PM
Surely posting dups is supported by slashcode?
SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by charon on Friday April 28 2017, @10:41PM