Flyer, most of those EVs that make up the Chinese 40% share are glorified golf carts too underpowered and lacking in safety features to be sold here. That is great for them, since middle class in China means about $10,000 to $15,000 a year, so something like the Leaf is out of reach to the large majority. We are the clear leader in EV and China is behind the US, Japan, and Germany in making actual practical electric vehicles that displace dirty hydrocarbon burners.

China’s closest thing to Tesla is Kandi, which was and still is a maker of shoddy go-karts before it hopped on the EV bandwagon to take advantage of government subsidies.

The big Chinese green tech success story is rooftop solar panels, where they dominate the world.