ABSTRACT
This chapter reveals how the same combination of four factors-political, economic business, technological scientific, and consumer demand that created the world's largest automobile market and manufacturer. It will also lead China to play a similarly central role in the future of automobiles and the attempts to offset the problems created by them through an ecomodernity: the development, implementation, and international spread of green automotive technologies, particularly electric vehicles (EVs). As the recent development of internal combustion automobility in China reveals, the intersection of four key realms allowed China to develop the world's largest Chinese manufacturing facilities and culture market: politics, business, technology, and consumer attitudes. Understanding the interaction of these four allows observers to anticipate the future direction of automobiles in China in the push to develop two-wheeled and four-wheeled electric vehicles which, although still fueled by carbon, show promise in transitioning China and the world toward an ecomodernity.
