@MrLee This is really their ploy to take over the automotive industry. They don't actual care how green it really is. The rest of the world needs to avoid falling into the trap of promoting BEVs as if it was the only idea possible. Or even as a good idea.
@Hypx
Yep. They could see this was the way forward and got on with it. The rest of the world talked about climate action but picked all the worst solutions. They put maintaining the status quo first.
Air pollution played an important part in China's decision-making and less about climate change.
The same goes with high-speed rail, too. This is a smart economic decision.
What remains to be seen is how willing China is to rapidly reduce its emissions overall. There is some hope, because Renewables are now the smart Economic decision, if you want lower energy costs.
[I'm not praising China's Socio-economic model, I'm just pointing out the failure of the rest of the world] https://cleantechnica.com/2023/10/11/chinas-oil-gas-giant-sinopec-says-peak-oil-demand-already-happened-in-china/
@MrLee China has not picked the right solutions. It is currently the world's biggest consumer of fossil fuel energy.
A lot of what it is doing is a form of greenwashing, where it is about making China look progressive when in reality it is a backwards and oppressive state. So much of what it is doing is pretend modernization, and in fact it is just waste or corruption.
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