[adventured]

> Chinese sales of domestically-built new energy vehicles in 2017 totaled 777,000 units

Those are gasoline electric hybrids, no more impressive than a Prius technologically from a decade ago that has been brought down in price.

China is not mass producing EVs, which is why it's 777,000 "new energy vehicles." That phrasing is the give-away. Otherwise we could just pretend the Prius was the first mass produced EV, when it was not.

[Certhas]

You are right that this figure includes hybrids (PHEV), but the vast majority, 652.000, are pure battery (BEV):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_energy_vehicles_in_China#/...

I did check that before but copy pasted the wrong line.

[nikofeyn]

yes they are. in a recent trip to china nearly all of my didi trips were in electric vehicles from two or three different manufacturers. all of these cars were nice but clearly affordable. and as the other commenter pointed out, china still sells more electric vehicles than anyone else in the world. china also has a high-end electric vehicle maker in nio.