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Electrify China: Street Smarts, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love China

Posted on July 09, 2008

By Genevieve Bennett, Breakthrough Generation FellowThis post is part of our week-long Special Issue exploring ways to sever the link between transportation and oil by electrifying transportation. Stay tuned for more...There may be a pretty mournful tune coming out of Detroit these days, but over in China, everyone's gone car-crazy. Consider this: in 2000, the private vehicle stock numbered about ten million automobiles. A McKinsey report out in June projects that ten million cars will be sold in 2008 alone. China is now the second-largest automobile market in the world after the U.S. China's ...

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