| ▲ | ZeroGravitas 2 days ago | |
There's a big Chinese auto show happening this week so there's a lot of announcements. The same site has an overview post: https://electrek.co/2026/04/26/beijing-auto-show-2026-insane... > In a single hall at the show, there were more EV models on display than there are available ones in the entire United States. There are 17 halls at this show. Seventeen. And they all have more EVs than the US market. > The show features 1,451 vehicles, including 181 world premieres and 71 concept cars, sprawling across a record-breaking 380,000 square meters of exhibition space at two venues. It’s now the largest auto show in the world — and it’s not even close. | ||
| ▲ | sigmoid10 2 days ago | parent [-] | |
No surprises here. China is already the biggest car market, both by production and units sold. And the gap is substantial. The US and EU automotive industries are getting left in the dust. A powerful industrial base and an authoritarian regime that is not completely in the dying fossil industry's pocket seem to be a winning combination this century. If anything stops them, it will be the long term consequences of the one child policy, which turbocharged the usual developed country population issues. | ||