Did no one tell them that that is up to battery technology improvements, not edicts from bureaucrats?
It’s a silly plan but it breaks my heart to say this:
the leader in new nuclear power generation is actually China.
now they won’t have the required infrastructure in the next year too but in ten years you might be China.
China is way way way more mature in their view about nuclear power generation.
What could possibly go wrong?
Call their bluff. It will not gappen anytime soon.
Good for them, it’s all just words.
This is just for timing and image points. No real timetable. Just words.
Rickshaw revolution? Mao power. Faster footsoldier.
If China does this, and continues to rely on and expand the use of nuclear power instead of burning coal for electricity, they actually will make a significant dent in emissions.
So we now have proof of what we knew all along, the move to electric cars IS A COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY!
Gasoline instead will be burned in order to recharge the car’s lithium batteries, giving a double whammy to the environment.
Peasants shouldn’t have cars. It gives them the idea that they might question the Party. If they can’t just pack up and drive off, they’ll just shut up.
I think this is a good move by China. They will be building up their own energy infrastructure while defunding the pathologic Middle East states, in the long run. By 2040, battery technology should be substantially higher improved over today.
The reason this is happening around the world is not because of an ecological concern but an economical one. The total cost (political and military) of acquiring oil and gas from hostile sources (Russia and the Middle East for the Eurozone, the USA for China) has become too great for many countries to bear. We’ll see every sort of cockamamie scheme we can imagine set up to find energy alternatives, all of which are likely to fail bigly (like wind and solar).
As for the USA, we’re truly blessed here in North America. We’re awash with oil, gas, and coal in our own territories, with the technical abilities for extraction and the market structures to enable production, making us completely energy independent. No other top-tier country can make that claim.
How would you like to be i Miami and the only transportation out is an electric car???
More horsepucky. For decades the Chicoms have been developing their oil reserves all over the WORLD. From all over south African countries to the Caribbean and beyond the Chicoms pursue oil. They may eventually have more cars with the hybrid option, but not just electric.
I’m at the point of concluding that the Chinese government are morons. They seem to be unable to think for themselves and instead latch onto every Western fad, and then take that fad to an unsustainable level.
We measure a country’s economy by GDP. So, what does China do? They game the numbers and (over) build empty cities. A high stock market looks good, so they overheat it. They encourage people to move from the country to the cities but without giving them the internal passport permission. And the (former) one child policy’s lingering effects. I don’t think the 21st century will be China’s century.
and build more Coal fired power plants to get the power to recharge to cars ,Oh wait ,LOL
I don’t get the desire for electric cars. I remember California with rolling blackouts due to people using to much electricity. Add billions and electric usage will skyrocket to where people end up with a few hours of electricity a day...maybe
Oh goody, more gasoline for us :-)
You can not run a major country on predominately electric.
Maybe 5?