China's EV Explosion, with Ilaria Mazzocco of CSIS

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We've got offerings like the China Global South podcast. James Carter's This Week in China's History, The Ultimate China bookshelf, Andrew Methman's Seneca Chinese Phrase of the Week, and even more offerings like a new podcast from our friends at Johns Hopkins CIS and a new weekly podcast from Trivium China to help you get caught up in the big political and economic news. China's phenomenal surge in electric vehicle production and adoption just in the last several years has really astonished and in some cases quite shocked the world with its apparent rapidity and sheer scale. During my first post-pandemic trip back to China in July of this year, I was pretty blown away by the dramatic increase in the number of EVs on the road in Beijing. I mean I had been told that this was the case, but still, by, you know, the fact that the taxi fleet with virtually no exceptions was electric.

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