everything but improving and taking public transport, eh?

Your right i think about the need for e-vehicles in china, if they can’t work here, they cant work anywhere. Chinese drivers are much more city bound than american and European commuters and drive less reducing the impact of e-cars reduced range, also the key environmental need at the moment is to reduce particulate commissions within cities rather than pure Co2 considerations (where e-cars offer rather suspect benefits)

What seems strange is that the govt doesn’t role out a massive e-taxi scheme. China’s large taxi firms are all govt controlled and generally buy their vehicles on mass then lease them to the drivers. One would have thought this would implementing such a policy relatively simple. One could use a car such as the Nissan leaf where the battery can be switched out and create a series of ‘swap shops’ only for the taxis around the city.

If nothing else the Santanas here in Shanghai are very old in the tooth and could do with a change.

I imagine that much of the opposition to such policies comes from the various departments who would stand to take a hit to profitability.

this was a fairly interesting article on the diplomat

http://thediplomat.com/2013/10/23/how-the-chinese-bureaucracy-decides/