Auto| Huw Andrews

If you were trying to create conditions for electric vehicles to flourish, then you might end up with a country like China.

It is the world's largest vehicle market, and it has a massive urban population, with all the traffic and pollution challenges that this entails. China needs and wants hybrid and pure electric cars, collectively called xEVs. It also has a growing xEV industry and infrastructure, and its consumers might be more disposed to adopt xEVs than those in other countries.