There’s a lesson to take from China’s abandoned electric cars that are going viral right now, and it’s not that EVs won’t work.
Over the last month or so, you might have seen many videos and articles about “thousands of abandoned electric vehicles in China.”
EV naysayers have used those stories to argue that electric vehicles will fail. However, that’s not really the lesson to take away from this unfortunate situation.
First off, it’s true that there are thousands of electric vehicles abandoned in fields around cities in China – possibly tens of thousands. However, almost all of them are electric vehicles that were part of car-sharing or ride-hailing services that have failed in the country.
Inside China Auto recently posted a video showing one of those so-called “Chinese EV graveyards.”
