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Two things this article leaves out, both relating to China. First, China has mandated that its domestic automakers sell 12% of their vehicles as all-electric o
by phil248 9y ago
Two things this article leaves out, both relating to China.
First, China has mandated that its domestic automakers sell 12% of their vehicles as all-electric or hybrid by 2020. There's your jumpstart for demand, as artificial as it may be. Policies in parts of Europe will help as well.
Second, China has several dozen domestic automakers, which must account for a fairly large share of these 127 battery-electric models mentioned in the article. Though the article also says 75 models have been announced that will sell in the US, and as far as I know none of the purely domestic Chinese automakers are in the US market today.
- r00fus 9y agoChina smells the disruption here. The US and Japanese automakers are delusionally living in the 1900s and when it comes down to it they will be playing catchup.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoThere was a huge scandal in the last year with more than a few Chinese car companies taking advantage of EV subsidies with bogus projects, so they basically had to do a reset on their plans with the quota instead. https://apnews.com/466f3f8a95594e6287af9a806c2ebf29 https://apnews.com/466f3f8a95594e6287af9a806c2ebf29 https://www.theicct.org/blogs/staff/subsidy-fraud-reforms-china-ev-market https://www.theicct.org/blogs/staff/subsidy-fraud-reforms-ch... BYD has done well enough, I've ridden in an E5 taxi more than a few times. This and the Model S were the only electric passenger cars I saw in Beijing circa late 2016.