China currently is the world's biggest car market and made 28 million cars last year which is almost a third of the global total. Global car firms like Nissan, Ford and General Motors are all working to develop electric cars in China. China hopes to have electric battery cars account for one fifth of its vehicle sales by 2025. This shift will also cause the demand for oil in China to decrease drastically. China currently is the worlds second largest oil consumer behind the U.S.
China not wanting to use diesel and petroleum cars is a positive move for them in getting rid of their CO2 emissions. The past 50 years China has been actively involved in expanding all of their industries is still sort of in their industrial revolution. Their air is some of the dirtiest air in the world due to all of the fossil fuels being burned. The damage to the environment is mostly due to the factories emitting CO2's into the air. Most Chinese people don't even own a car. So its a nice thought to change their focus to electric cars but the factories will still be fully operational and still will be emitting CO2's into the air. The problem isn't mainly due to how many cars are there. I'm sure if all the cars there were electric it would benefit their environment. But the constant use of their factories to produce as much as they can is going to continue to pollute the air, so going electric wont really make a difference.
I find it very interesting that many Chinese people do not own a car yet their government is trying to help the environment by having less emissions from cars. Since there are so many people in the Chinese labor force it makes sense that have a lot of output from factories. They need to work on a solution to be cleaner.
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ReplyDeleteI disagree that China's push for electric cars won't make a difference. While the factories used to produce them will still give off pollution, it's certainly a step in the right direction to improving and developing clean energy for the long-term survival of the environment.
ReplyDeleteJust like the comments and the post itself, I don't think the abolition of cars that use oil as fuel will make a large difference. The main causes of pollution are the factories and how they treat the environment (example: their way of treating with waste). It is quite terrible and I think they would have to approach the matter in a more practical way.
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