"Right now, extended-range electric vehiclesEVs with gas engines that serve as generators to recharge their batteriesare a hot ticket. They promise the best of both worlds, with gas serving as a backup to boost range and aid towing and hauling for larger vehicles. But what if advances in battery technology and charging infrastructure make EREVs and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) obsolete?"
"China Daily highlights a dramatic change in the proportion of electrified vehicles purchased in China this year compared with 2024. It reveals that in November of last year, 57% of buyers chose a pure battery-powered EV, with 43% opting for an EREV instead. That has changed significantly this year, with 73% going electric and 27% opting for EREVs, respectively, indicating a clear trend away from EVs with onboard gas generators."
"The country's charging infrastructure is not only rapidly expanding, densifying and covering a wider area, but chargers are also getting quicker and more powerful. There are public chargers in China today that offer 1 megawatt of power and commercially available passenger EVs that can take that kind of power and charge up in five minutes. We know they exist because we actually saw one in action and it blew us away."
Cheap, long-range, fast-charging battery electric vehicles in China are rapidly displacing extended-range EVs and plug-in hybrids as batteries and charging networks improve. Buyer preferences shifted from 57% BEVs and 43% EREVs in November last year to 73% BEVs and 27% EREVs this year. Public charging infrastructure is expanding, densifying, and delivering higher power, including public chargers offering up to 1 megawatt and passenger EVs capable of using such power to recharge in about five minutes. Over 19 million active electric vehicles are on Chinese roads. EREVs and PHEVs are increasingly seen as transitional technologies.
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