According to this, 14911 were BYD, VW were 80 behind.

https://www.globalchinaev.com/post/byd-edges-out-vw-to-becom...

Incidentally, it's far from what you'd expect, but the US is actually probably more influential in public transport than private transport on an export basis; Cummins is very competitive in the diesel engine space for buses, and the ridiculously-named Wabtec (previously GE and Westinghouse's train-y divisions) is big in locomotive tech.

Though AIUI US companies are largely failing to keep up there, now, too; diesel city buses are on the way out, and electric bus powertrains are largely Chinese or European.

> EVs were sold in the US as muscle cars for rich people

Yeah, the Nissan Leaf was a high-torque monster. Though to describe the BMW i3 as a muscle car is... not the descriptor I would use.

EVs were not sold by every OEM as high-power drag-strip rock stars - that's just what it took to get Americans to pay attention

3. Sweden/Norway have a lot of EVs while distances are not small like Netherlands etc and are also less urban than the US.

3. Will change soon enough. Except in the land of the free, oil.

parts? theres different voltage residential supply in different parts of the country? wild.

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You are wrong and right.

Wrong because Brazil DOES fuel cars on sugarcane alcohol. Most petrol stations in the country have pumps for sugarcane alcohol, nearly all the ICE cars sold in the last two decades have a flex engine (in the past you had to chose when buying the car if you wanted a alcohol engine or a gasoline engine, now the engines just takes whichever you trow at it and adjusts the injection accordingly), and roughly half the personal vehicles in the country run daily on alcohol. That fact has softened this oil crisis a tiny tiny bit in the country (when oil is expensive many people just pump alcohol instead of gasoline).

And right that electricity is much cheaper than gasoline or alcohol, so people are changing to EVs because of the cost savings in fuel. In fact electricity was already much cheaper even when the price of oil was down, what was holding back EV adoption in the country was never the price of oil, but the relatively high purchase prices of EV vehicles (the average upper-middle-class Brazilian can't afford a Tesla like an American or European can), but the latest batch of basic EVs (like the BYD Dolphin-mini/Seagul) started to break that barrier about one or two years ago, and are now on the top sales charts.

> Brazil does not "fuel" cars on sugarcane any more than the US fuels its cars with corn.

In Brazil "ethanol" is sold separately from normal gasoline, and as far as I know it's entirely made from sugar cane, without fossil fuels. It's why flex cars are so popular there, since they can use either fuel depending on what's cheaper.

Meanwhile, you can't buy 100% corn-based fuel in the US.

> this is the exact kind of misinformation that prevents progress.

lol

> Brazil does not "fuel" cars on sugarcane any more than the US fuels its cars with corn.

Brazil has been building cars which can run on 100% ethanol since the 1970s.

These are not obscure facts; this is common knowledge the US teaches to schoolchildren.

In the US gasoline is a 10% ethanol blend, sometimes 15%. E85 is available only in some midwestern states (I've NEVER seen it for sale anywhere on the west coast) and it's only good for flex-fuel vehicles, which most manufacturers stopped building ~ 10 years ago when the free money from the government shifted towards EV incentives.