【龙腾网】为什么中国几乎所有的小型车辆都是电动的？

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在中国，几十年来，几乎所有的小型车辆（踏板车、轻便摩托车、小型机动车）都在使用电池作为动力。为什么西方世界没有采用这种技术？

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David Annett
, Embedded systems engineer, EV enthusiast，Lives in Levin, New Zealand2019–present
For the same reason people in the west stopped riding motorcycles for transport. Cars became cheap and easy and the society adapted around that. In many places where traffic is too heavy people have failed to adapt, still cling to the comfort blanket of their cars.
While the problem in the west is a failure to adapt China actually has a different problem. Cars are a status symbol there. Once they have a car they will not go back to using a scooter. I lived in China for a couple of years. I like motorcycles for transport when the weather is good so as soon as I could I purchased one. Later I saved up a bit of funds and brought a car. However I kept the motorcycle and continued to use to commute when the weather was good as it was faster and easier in the traffic. That confused the local staff, they could not understand why I would still use a motorcycle once I had a car.

出于同样的原因，西方人也不再骑摩托车出行，在汽车变得便宜和容易获得之后，社会也随之适应了这一点。但在许多交通过于拥挤的地方，人们无法适应，他们仍然希望开车出行。
虽然西方存在的问题是有些人无法适应不依赖汽车，但中国实际上有一个不同的问题。在那里，汽车是地位的象征，一旦他们有了汽车，他们就不会再使用踏板车了。我在中国生活了两年，我喜欢在天气好的时候骑踏摩托车，所以我会尽快买一辆。后来我存了一点钱，买了一辆汽车。然而，我保留了摩托车，我会在天气好的时候继续使用它上下班，因为它在繁忙的交通中更快更容易。这让当地的同事感到困惑，他们无法理解为什么我有了汽车后还会用摩托车。

Michael Ciao
, Business Owner Investor (1977-present)，Lives in San Francisco Bay Area
Because the western world excel in internal combustion engines. That is one thing China never really conquered. There are dozens of car manufacturers in China making more cars than any other countries, but they build on foreign technologies and foreign engines, and they still pay hefty loyalties to foreign auto companies, even today. The engines are mostly imported. The success seen is just a mirage.
Electric vehicles are completely different than internal combustion engines vehicles, in fact, all early vehicles were electric, but they were abandoned over the success of internal combustion engine vehicles.

因为西方世界擅长内燃机，这是一件中国从未真正征服过的东西。虽然中国有几十家汽车制造商，它们生产的汽车比其他任何国家都多，但他们依靠的是外国的技术和外国的发动机，即使在今天，他们仍然对外国汽车公司忠心耿耿。由于中国汽车公司使用的发动机大多是进口的，所以我们所看到的中国汽车产业的成功只是海市蜃楼。
电动汽车与内燃机汽车完全不同，事实上，早期所有的汽车都是电动的，但它们被内燃机汽车的成功所抛弃。

Electric vehicles is the salvation for Chinese auto industry, this is one rare and only chance Chinese auto industry can leapfrog pass all western and Japanese auto makers in this once in the lifetime opportunity.
China has been quietly pouring all resources into electric vehicles for many years, now it leads in many subcategories in this field, most critically, the battery. China did that openly but nobody was watching, they are all busy bashing China.
The west and Japan are too successful in internal combustion engines to go into this new direction. All their revenue are from internal combustion engines.

电动汽车是中国汽车产业的救星，是中国汽车产业能够在这千载难逢的机会中超越所有西方和日本汽车制造商的难得的也是唯一的机会。
多年来，中国一直在悄悄地将所有资源投入电动汽车产业，现在它在该领域的许多子类别中处于领先地位，最关键的是：电池。中国公开在做，但没有人注意，他们都在忙着抨击中国。
西方和日本在内燃机方面过于成功，以至于它们无法转向这一新方向，因为他们所有的收入都来自内燃机汽车。

Mike Azeka
13 years experience with large scale solar power，Lives in The United States of America1965–present
As of 2020 China had 17 million gasoline powered motorcycles but at least 300 million electric scooters. A big reason is likely cost, electric scooters are ten times cheaper than a gas powered car, and about half the price of a gasoline motorcycle, and cheaper to run than a gas powered motorcycle. Gas powered cycles are also banned in some Chinese cities due to air pollution. The 300 million owners don't have the much larger incomes that westerners have, most Chinese earn 1/4 to 1/2 as much as their western counterparts. By western standards, these Chinese are poor. Very few westerners drive low cost electric scooters like are common in China. Why didn't westerners buy cheap, small, slow electric scooters? Because they can afford gasoline powered cars.

截至2020年，中国有1700万辆以汽油为动力的摩托车，但同时至少有3亿辆电动踏板车。一个重要的原因可能是成本，电动踏板车的价格比以汽油为动力的汽车便宜十倍，大约是以汽油为动力的摩托车的一半。由于空气污染，中国一些城市也禁止使用以燃气为动力的摩托车。
3亿踏板车主没有西方人那么高的收入，大多数中国人的收入是西方同行的1/4到1/2。按照西方的标准，这些中国人很穷。很少有西方人会像中国人一样驾驶低成本的电动踏板车，为什么西方人不买更便宜、更小、更慢的电动踏板车呢？那是因为他们买得起以汽油为动力的汽车。