Skip to main content
Climate
Search

Main navigation

  • Climate 101
    • What We Know
    • What Can Be Done
    • Climate Primer
  • Explore
    • Explainers
    • Ask MIT Climate
    • Podcast
    • For Educators
  • MIT Action
    • News
    • Events
    • Resources
  • Search
MIT

Main navigation

  • Climate 101
    • What We Know
    • What Can Be Done
    • Climate Primer
  • Explore
    • Explainers
    • Ask MIT Climate
    • Podcast
    • For Educators
  • MIT Action
    • News
    • Events
    • Resources
  • Search
PostFebruary 19, 2019

China is leaving the US in the dust on electric-vehicle chargers

Now with 808,000 electric vehicle (EV) chargers in place, China has taken the lead in the EV market. This number overshadows the approximately 500,000 EV chargers found in the United States. In this piece posted by James Temple, MIT Technology Review's senior editor for energy, the facts are presented surrounding China’s surge to the frontlines in this era of the new automobile.

Read the full article at: https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612890/china-is-leaving-t…

Photo from: NIO

by MIT Technology Review
Topics
Energy
Electrification
Industry & Manufacturing
Transportation
Cars

Related Posts

PodcastJuly 10, 2025

E8: Transmission: power to the people

TILclimate Podcast
TILclimate logo
PostJuly 4, 2025

Robotic probe quickly measures key properties of new materials

MIT News
Scientists are striving to discover new semiconductor materials that could boost the efficiency of solar cells and other electronics. The pace of innovation is bottlenecked by the speed at which researchers can manually measure important material properties, but a fully autonomous robotic system developed by MIT researchers could speed things up.
PostJuly 2, 2025

3 Questions: How MIT’s venture studio is partnering with MIT labs to solv...

MIT News
David Cohen-Tanugi has been the venture builder for Proto Ventures’ fusion and clean energy channel since 2023.
PostJuly 2, 2025

Confronting the AI/energy conundrum

MIT Energy Initiative
At the 2025 MIT Energy Initiative Spring Symposium, Evelyn Wang (at lectern), the MIT vice president for energy and climate, joined MITEI Director William H. Green to discuss how collaborations across campus can help solve the data center challenge.

MIT Climate News in Your Inbox

 
 

MIT Groups Log In

Log In

Footer

  • About
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Accessibility
  • Contact
MIT Climate Project
MIT
Communicator Award Winner
Communicator Award Winner