Here’s a good piece in the New York Times about China’s homegrown electric car companies, which are actually shipping lots of cars people are buying, instead of endlessly launching vaporware. Anyway, this paragraph is so deeply revealing: it contains so many solutions to transportation problems. A small gas generator in a popular battery electric car to solve for range anxiety and bullet trains! Imagine.
Mr. Cao said he doubted he would need the backup engine. He plans to drive the S.U.V. for day trips to large parks on the outskirts of Shanghai, recharging it at home each night. Such outings have become popular in China with the end of “zero Covid” quarantines and municipal lockdowns. For longer travel to other cities, he said, he would fly or take one of China’s many bullet trains.
[The New York Times]
