China Is Racing to Electrify Its Future

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The country wants electric vehicles to make up 40 percent of new cars sold by 2030—but first it has to figure out how to keep them charged.

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At times that has meant charging infrastructure struggled to keep up. Shenzhen, home to EV and battery maker BYD, provided an early case study. By 2017, all of the city’s buses were electric, and its taxi fleet went all-electric a year later. At first, thereAs of January, government guidelines require that each parking space in a new residential building come with charging capabilities.

In older neighborhoods, EV charging can put a strain on the grid, and utility companies have been reluctant to make upgrades. Instead, they direct charging providers to build stations where the grid is strong enough—locations that may be less than convenient for drivers. But the chargers that are in place along highways and at public stations are frustratingly slow, Hove explains. Many outlets billed as rapid chargers offered 50-kW charging, which can take up to an hour.

 

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And they also keep building more coal plants…

Tone deaf to run an article focused on China’s economics right now. They are a cruel govt oppressing their people and this is something you can lose to research and print?

Our grid is not ready and worst yet, our politicians act as if it was !

it almost like a total number of chargers matters :)

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