Kun Tang, founder of HiNa Battery, explains to Nikhil Kamath how Chinese government funding and pilot programs built China's nationwide EV charging network.
“Today's situation in China is a national drive for last decades. So, you know, so the pure EV car, it can get easily charged in China, in most cities, but you cannot guarantee that happen in India, or even in Germany. I don't think there's too many charge stations, but you know, the government have spent a lot of money, and at 10 years before, we call it 10 cities for 1000 EVs 10 years before, and the government gave a lot of subsidies for these EV cars, and there's a lot of car companies, they try to earn this subsidy with cheating.”
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