I visited last year…no…two years ago! Before the latest ten mmmmillion EV chargers!
And was already shocked at the number of public electric bicycle chargers that had been installed in the 2 years since I had been and the number of EVs on the road. I took rideshares a couple times a week there, and a hundred percent of the cars were EVs.
They’re also adding twice as much solar capacity as every other country in the world combined every year.
Not to mention its battery grid storage, which is accelerating crazy. Last December, In one month, China installed 25% of the global battery grid storage installed for all countries over the entire year.
That’s craaaazy, I might have to change my plans and angle on over to see the future in Chongqing . And to eat food in Chongqing.
Yeah. Cities are well over 50% electric vehicles.
I was driving through Xinjiang last year and I thought I was approaching some sort of inland sea or huge lake. As I got closer it resolved into the biggest solar farm I have ever seen. It stretched to the horizon and took me about 30 minutes to drive past at around 100km/h. Also there were colossal wine turbines all over Xinjiang for thousands of kilometers and wherever you were on the freeways there would always be a truck somewhere on the road transporting new wind turbines.
It’s insane how much progress they are making. It literally boggles the mind to see it
It really is difficult to grasp the scale of their infrastructural development.
Every time I go back I just try and measure the ratio of electric cars on the road versus the last time I was there.
And every couple of years it jumps by 10%.
I saw a large solar farm, but nothing like you’re talking about, although I completely believe it.
Thanks, it’s fascinating to hear about.
Did you see any of those balloon wind turbines yet?
No I didn’t, but I’ll be back there next year and I’m sure they’ll be everywhere by then
1-1.5km up, I guess they’ll just be a dot at best above with massive cables trailing down.
Looks like they actually have two types, turbines and then kites that somehow crank a generator or pull a generator on the ground.
