Not for the first time when it comes to technological prowess, others put the UK to shame. China has been building charging infrastructure with such fury that the province of Guangdong has more chargers than the whole of the US.
OK. Now think of how much political control of the Chinese economy there is. So, do we think that much loss of liberty is worth the security of more EV charging points?
Now try answering the question again on the assumption that you’re not going to be one of the exalted who gets to exercise the political power over the economy…..
China has also been building hundreds of coal-fired power stations, to provide electricity for those EVs. Would it not have been more efficient to use the Fischer-Tropsch process to transform the coal into diesel, like the Nazis did?
Er this is China, does anybody actually believe it?
Apart from western shills who hope to make a buck installing chinese made crap here
The province of Guangdong has a population of ~125mn which is the same order of magnitude as the US. So it’s not some tiny “province”. Basically it’s the equivalent of saying that the Netherlands has more EV chargers than France or Germany (this is also true)
“OK. Now think of how much political control of the Chinese economy there is. So, do we think that much loss of liberty is worth
the security of more EV charging points” whatever HM Gov. / WEF / WHO / liberal elites / eco- activists know what is best for the rest of us?WE don’t think so, but absolutely they do.
Another hard of thinking article from the Telegraph. It’s almost as if they are being paid to write bollocks…
China has also been building hundreds of coal-fired power stations, to provide electricity for those EVs. Would it not have been more efficient to use the Fischer-Tropsch process to transform the coal into diesel, like the Nazis did?
China evidently doesn’t give a shit about Climate Change™ but it might have concluded that its cities are poison nightmares. With siting and extraction (maybe later) they can reduce the impact of the power stations but the diesel engines everywhere remain a problem. So electrify city transport.
What PJF says. Purely from a technical point of view, it’s much easier to deal with the exhaust of 100 central, fixed sources than with the exhaust form a couple million mobile ones.
Something that was proposed here in Europe, but got Carthage’d by the Ecowarriors.