What the World Could Learn from China’s EV Dominance
The world's policymakers and automakers have real lessons to draw from how China built its electric vehicle industry, and the useful ones have little to do with copying an all-powerful state. Start with technological range: China backed multiple pathways simultaneously, battery-electric, hybrid, fuel-cell, and alternative fuels, rather than committing early to one winner. That flexibility let policy adjust as the technology and market matured, in contrast to the European Union's narrower post-Dieselgate focus on batteries and EVs alone. A second lesson concerns subnational government. Empowered local or regional authorities, given real incentives and accountability for failure, can generate more competition and experimentation than a single centralized program typically manages. A third lesson is…
