In China an electric revolution is taking place. Across the country, electric cars Australians might consider to be luxury items are now standard issue vehicles in China. Massage seats, big screens and even fridges are the minimum requirement for Chinese EV drivers and with charging stations at shopping centres that can recharge a battery in under 5 minutes, there’s no such thing as range anxiety.

On Foreign Correspondent, reporter Allyson Horn, now based in the ABC’s reopened China bureau, examines how this nation became the dominant global force in electric vehicles. With 75 per cent of the world’s EVs being made in China she gets an inside look at what’s rolling off the production lines in record time and she previews the newest range of EVs including a futuristic flying car that will be on sale by the end of the year. With a global shortage of oil and increased petrol prices in the wake of the US and Israel’s war with Iran, China’s long term EV strategy is leaving the rest of the world behind with surging demand and record-breaking profits.

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    china isn’t living in the future, they are living in the present. it’s us here who are stuck in the past.

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      6 days ago

      Democracy must be immediatly abolished on all decent countries. Democracy = Majority dooming all people on so many ways.

      It has no compromise with reason: what most people decide defeats reason, no matter how dumb it is

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        6 days ago

        to be fair democracy is a misnomer in this case.

        they equate democracy with liberalism, which isn’t actually democratic lmao.