Environment China China’s booming EV market - with Tu Le and James Gao
By popular request, the podcast turns to the topic of electric vehicles and trying to look at this from a market perspective instead of a policy perspective, and really examine how the market works and how it breaks down in terms of EV characteristics and market shares. Today we are speakng to two EV experts: Tu Le of Sino Auto Insights, a mobility consultancy, and of China Evs and More podcast; and James Gao (Gao Tianjian) of Mercedes and the Beijing Energy Network.
In this podcast we discuss:
- Why EV sales in China are surging
- What types of vehicles are seeing the most growth, and how similar Chinese vehicles are to EVs abroad
- How the market breaks down in terms of foreign vs domestic
- How China is able to scale up manufacturing of potentially globally competitive products, and which EVs have the most export potential
- The situation with battery swap, which is now expanding from NIO and BAIC to new players
- The charging situation for China's apartment dwellers
We end the podcast with a game of buy-sell-or-hold, where we challenge our guests to identify the probability of different future EV scenarios, such as whether a Chinese EV will be a top seller worldwide (outside of China) in 2025.
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