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How is their infrastructure for charging?
it's the only place I know where it's common to have your whole battery pack swapped out, much quicker than recharging a battery, and leaves the difficult job of battery maintenance up to professionals
I only saw a conceptual video on this but didn't know it was an actual thing yet. Pretty neat
https://jalopnik.com/you-can-swap-an-ev-battery-in-china-for-7-1848277018
https://hackaday.com/2022/02/09/china-loves-battery-swapping-evs-but-will-they-ever-make-it-here/
Complicated, within the city limits is quite good, many malls have charger in their parkings and many solar charger parkings are appearing, however long distance driving is still not ideal (either no charging stations or charging stations are broken), people mainly purchase EVs as backup car.
so it's good except for Long distance?
Yup, it is quite ideal for inner-city traffic.
What I question the most is how would you charge it if you live in the city. Most people, at least here, don't have a garage or a spot in an indoor parking, and just leave the car on the street or somewhere inside the blocks.