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> Electric cars. For new car sales … 50% in China.

This seems to be incorrect unless you lure in Plugin-Hybrids into the "electric cars" category. Also, the real driver of this "electric cars" market share growth in China seems to be PHEVs ("electric cars" with a combustion engine in it) while BEVs growth seems to be stalling. [1]

[1] https://cleantechnica.com/2024/07/02/47-plugin-vehicle-marke...

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OK, "Plug-in vehicles".

I considered getting one of those, but it only has 22 miles of electric range. If they got to 50 miles, I could run on electricity almost all the time.

This is where the US is the outlier. A very small percentage of people I know in Europe and elsewhere in the developed world drive more than that on a regular workday. Perhaps the hybrid car's batteries just need to be bigger.

Yeah, interesting why there isn't a US version of hybrids yet

Plugin hybrids are great. Electric is used in daily commutes, but there is no range anxiety and no problem with a long trip.

Pure electric sales are actually stalling, and multiple car brands (Volvo, and Volkswagen) are backing down on their electric ambitions and pivoting towards plugin hybrids as a better intermediary.

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