China builds world’s largest EV charging network with 167,000 stations
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Their "recommended reading" includes an article titles "The miracle called Communist Party of China"[1] written by the Chief Minister of Punjab Province, Pakistan.
The CPC defies conventional wisdom and logic pertaining to political outfits. This dizzying pace of transformation defies logic, for this was done in barely a few decades and only could have happened because a robust body like the Chinese Communist Party stood behind the strategy.
Whether or not communism is good or bad is basically defined by whether or not the country is US-friendly.
It's not surprising really - if your government is predictable you can learn to work around most things. If they keep changing the way you have to relate to them, it's much harder.
The perhaps slightly more surprising thing is when you start comparing more countries and see how little internal political factors seem to matter at all. E.g. changing governments rarely produces more than a blip as long as the handover itself is not disruptive.
I tried to read more about it two years ago and was surprised to see academics complaining about the lack of a political science model of the Chinese government (apart from the one provided by the PCC propaganda). In one word: we don't know how it works.
Source - https://www.economist.com/news/china/21725338-would-he-prefe...
Sun is Bo's successor in the same province. When you remove the leader of a crime ring, the ring still exists. I think that these accusations are pretty credible. 2 members in 15 years, in a country that's supposed to be struggling with corruption, that's nor something that looks that unusual.
collaborators? trump seems to have a good supply of such collaborators
how trump got the Muslim ban, transgender ban, quit Paris agreement. oh, let's don't forget his ongoing efforts to build the wall, kill the public healthcare, stop global trade...
US democracy is nothing else but free Internet entertainment
What really ruins the US is the large amount of apathetic people who don't actually care enough to vote or participate in civic duties.
This is about the billing system. That's what they mean by "the telematics platform of the SGCC". The key point here is that China's electric car charging infrastructure is being standardized.[1] Unlike in the US, the standardization includes the billing system and the system by which cars and customers identify to the charging station.[1]
[1] https://www2.unece.org/wiki/download/attachments/12058681/EV...
That's largely untrue. In urban Chinese cities, the tailpipe exhaust is one of the biggest cause of the smog and air pollution. The anecdotal evidence is that I was raise in a small city that has virtually no major factories yet still have been suffered from air pollution and smog. While small factories were forced to be closed (due to environmental regulations in recent years) the number of the motor vehicles (cars, trucks and motorcycles) on the road has raised 10x. As a result, air pollution has been getting worse.
It's unrealistic to expect 100% of the power in the grid coming from green energy sources, let alone the idea of waiting till then to pushing EV adoption. Green energy transition should be gradual, one step at the time.
Even if 100% of the electricity was produced by coal, anytime you reduce the sources of pollution from millions of tailpipes to a few thousand power plants, you can easily regulate and install scrubbers to reduce the pollutants.
True, but with China it never helps much to look at where they are instantaneously. It's all about the rate of change. They are extremely aggressive with their renewables goals. Far beyond the US or EU.
http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2107354/china...
The new AP1000s are almost done. Hopefully they get the costs under control so they can build 100 of them.
Bill Gates’ Terrapower is developing the next gen plants in China:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2015/10/02/bill-gate...
China has no plans to reduce their dirty energy consumption. None what-so-ever (which is why they are not). All of their publicly stated plans regarding renewable energy, is for future energy consumption growth, not as a replacement for existing dirty energy production. China won't be reducing their total coal consumption over the next 20 years for example.
They will probably fix that eventually, but it just goes to show about the weirdness of rapid growth.
Also, china will never have the renewable capacity of Norway, which gets almost all of its electricity from hydro.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-voltage_electricity...
As other comments point out even if the CO2 per kilometer were the same the reduction in urban pollution is a big win.
That said, this article is way out of date. China's electricity mix is much greener today than in 2009.
- every electric car has no local emissions, so it has a direct impact from day one
- if the grid gets cleaner, electric cars will pic that up and get cleaner too
- even at 60% coal, the electric car has a slight advantage, as electric cars are way more efficient, especially in congested traffic, than combustion engines.
- getting all cars electric will take 30 years, from the day no more combustion engines are sold, it still takes 10-15 years, so this needs to be done in parallel with cleaning up electricity production.
Quick summary: about 34% natural gas, 30% coal, 20% nuclear, 15% renewables, 1% other. Coal is on a pretty strong downward trend so expect that number to go down, and others to go up.
Of course, it's a big country so your local power generation is probably more relevant. You can find out about your local generating mix here: https://oaspub.epa.gov/powpro/ept_pack.charts
Saving grace is being able to charge for free or discounted at work.
But with that high electricity charge it makes them closer than you'd think. In Washington state our prices avg out to 11.x cents per kwh, without any special pricing, and I get the all green power option.
This is an honest question. I've been thinking about getting a Leaf for a while, but living in Gilroy, we're stuck with the same crazy-expensive electric tiering you are. But there's also a dealership less than a mile from my home.
AFAIC, if you own your home, it's a complete no-brainer. And our time to payoff is going to be around 4 years, tops.
From what I understand, the plan we're on is going to be forcibly retired in 2020. Hopefully by then powerwalls will be cheap enough to get us through the 5-9 hump during summer on the Time of Use system.
[1] http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1082737_electric-car-eff...
For example, the Volt is capable of 48 mpg with no charging on gas only. On electric only with no gas, it does 31 kWh/100miles.
Of course, that depends upon the weather. I get 30% better range in the Summer than the Winter in mine.
It's likely that owning a car will be a silly thing to do in the future though, so it won't really matter
If it's anything like the USA they'll all be vandalized or worn out in a few years, and no one will spend any money to fix 'em because they don't make anyone any money.
I find this fellow's assessment accurate, if you want a brief overview.
That said, if any government could make a widespread EV grid, it would be china. In prosperous times, an authoritarian outlook can be a real boon for widespread adoption.
I'm not saying that 167,000 stations isn't impressive, because it is, but it's not the power output of these stations that makes it impressive really.