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I am a big fan of the green energy show 'Fully Charged': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaC1qgXaRvE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaC1qgXaRvE According to

I am a big fan of the green energy show 'Fully Charged': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaC1qgXaRvE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaC1qgXaRvE According to recent episodes things are looking very good for China and the electric car. The clever thing is how the Western car companies are not really needed, the joint ventures that they imposed on foreign marques doesn't apply with electric cars, here the Chinese government wan the whole pie, all made in China. I think that China will be able to get rid of ICE cars as quick as they first obtained them, in part because the build quality of a lot of them wasn't that good to start with and also because there are people that can remember a time before these filthy machines came along. It is not like the West where only one's great-grandmother can remember the horse and cart, everyone else has only known car pollution.

caltelt 9y ago
If only ICE transportation was the whole problem. It's something though. Moving in the right direction, just maybe not at a quick enough pace.
seanmcdirmid 9y ago
Car pollution isn’t the major pollutant for Beijing, it’s more industrial, power production, and heating (coal); a lot of drifts in from Hebei and gets trapped in Beijing because it is shaped like a bowl. Cars have fairly good emissions in the jing, while the gas is kept clean also. You can actually see the pollution spike higher at night when the cars are mostly off the road and blue trucks come in from hebei without emissions equipment using crappy gas. http://www.wri.org/blog/2008/07/beijings-air-pollution-it-isnt-cars http://www.wri.org/blog/2008/07/beijings-air-pollution-it-is... Electric cars will help for sure, but it isn’t going to solve the problem on its own. Shifting away from coal (especially for heating, especially in the Hebei country side), and getting factories in Hebei to obey the law is much more important.

caltelt 9y ago

If only ICE transportation was the whole problem. It's something though. Moving in the right direction, just maybe not at a quick enough pace.

seanmcdirmid 9y ago

Car pollution isn’t the major pollutant for Beijing, it’s more industrial, power production, and heating (coal); a lot of drifts in from Hebei and gets trapped in Beijing because it is shaped like a bowl. Cars have fairly good emissions in the jing, while the gas is kept clean also. You can actually see the pollution spike higher at night when the cars are mostly off the road and blue trucks come in from hebei without emissions equipment using crappy gas. http://www.wri.org/blog/2008/07/beijings-air-pollution-it-isnt-cars http://www.wri.org/blog/2008/07/beijings-air-pollution-it-is... Electric cars will help for sure, but it isn’t going to solve the problem on its own. Shifting away from coal (especially for heating, especially in the Hebei country side), and getting factories in Hebei to obey the law is much more important.