Chinese Electric Cars Will Take Over The World – If We Let Them

A few years ago, the cars coming out of China were the object of derision. They were either obvious copies of popular Western models, or they were utterly ridiculous. The Land Wind X7 was the spitting image of a Range Rover Evoque, the CH Auto Lithia Sports bore an uncanny resemblance to the Audi R8, and the rather lengthily named Dongfeng EQ2050 Brave Soldier could easily have been mistaken for an American military Humvee. On the other hand, the Li Shi Guang Ming The Book Of Songs didn’t just have a silly name; its looks were so bizarre even a cartoon character would have been embarrassed to drive one.   ...more

Ken Notes: I have been writing about this for years now, if we are not proactive China has plans to skip an entire generation of auto technology and enter the world markets with state of the art next generation electric vehicles. Don`t think it can happen, I`m old and I remember when we thought Japanese cars we laughable - Who`s Laughing now???