Lived in China 2009-2022, when I arrived they were just starting to experience the boom - and forced China-style adoption (aka "all gas scooters are banned star

Lived in China 2009-2022, when I arrived they were just starting to experience the boom - and forced China-style adoption (aka "all gas scooters are banned starting from tomorrow" out of blue) - of electric scooters. At that time I wondered, why not just "put two scooters together" with a shell, and voila, a car! Fast forward to 2020s and that's exactly what's going on. There is a lot of EV "cars" cars in China that barely qualify as a car (e.g. Wuling Hongguang) and cost as low as 20,000 RMB (~US$3,000). I would not want to buy those, though. The current EV boom is forced by planned economy with huge subsidies, which always attracts "wrong crowd" in China. There are hundreds of brands right now, but once the subsidies dry up, 99% of them will shut down, leaving unsupported hastily slapped together cars to rot.