China’s Electric Car Goals
China’s recent focus on green technologies and
renewables, specifically electric cars, has encouraged other countries around
the world to increase their focus on electric vehicles in order to compete with
China’s expanding market. The proposed policies would allow China to become the
center for the global auto industry, completely restructuring this market.
Although China is looking to expand the use of electric vehicles to increase their
global presence and economy, this will also help their air pollution, as well
as their reliance on other countries for oil extraction. Because of China’s
pressure for global electric development, many countries have begun to move
their research and development to China. This has encouraged technologies to be
shared amongst countries. Currently, Chinese cars are produced for
practicality, not luxury, which has prevented them from becoming globally
popular. Their current battery technology supports short travel distances in
city China’s city environments, but the goal is to produce a technology that is
globally marketable.
China’s global pressure has helped the development and
subsequent sharing of technologies which will hopefully result in better, more
affordable, and easily accessible electric cars. This could drastically change
both the transportation and the energy industry, shifting energy away from oil.
In the process of shifting away from oil, this has the potential to allow
countries to produce their energy domestically, rather than relying on oil
imports that may be obtained in countries with little environmental regulation.
Although this could have a positive impact on the environment globally, the
major caveat with marketing these cars as a way to help air pollution is that
coal is used to produce nearly three-quarters of China’s power.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/business/china-hastens-the-world-toward-an-electric-car-future.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld&action=click&contentCollection=world®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=74&pgtype=sectionfront
China is an example of a nation that definitely needs to decrease air pollution. A good way to do this is to focus on green technologies. Although electric cars has been around for a long time now, everyone still drives cars that depend on fuel. A large nation like China looking for a more sustainable future can really influence the rest of the world, especially the ones in the East. Shifting energy away of oil is good idea because our focus needs to trying to figure out how we can rely on renewable resources. Resources like water, air and the sun can guide us to more sustainable future.
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