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I'm not particularly surprised about China. They're making big advances in this area. Their continued growth in carbon emissions is alongside growth in renewables because their total energy usage is growing insanely fast.

With cars specifically, think about cars you've seen on the road here in Australia. Of the EVs, where have you seen them from? Apart from Teslas, the vast majority I've seen have been either Chinese or Korean.

China have some very big cities and the pollution alone has been causing lots of health related problems. They have an incentive to migrate to EV's on those grounds alone.

They introduced regulations that fossil fuel motorcycles were only allowed every other day. Electric mopeds were allowed any day.
Most mopeds in Chinese cities are electric ones now. Out in the sticks you'll still find combustion ones.

But they seriously needed that. The smog in the cities back then were live-threatening.

I'm also surprised about China, not for any other reason than their track record on pollution hasn't been great.

That's because they're not deinstitutionalizing like Europe, and in fact their industry is still growing. A lot of European advances in reducing pollution came because they simply exported it elsewhere.