After conquering China’s rich megacities, electric-vehicle makers are shifting focus to the country’s less affluent heartland in a bid to kill off internal combustion engines in the world’s biggest car market.
EVs account for half of all vehicle sales in China and already outsell petrol cars in most of the so-called first- and second-tier cities, which include megalopolises such as Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Shenzhen.
But in lower-tier cities, which account for about 80 per cent of the country’s urban centres, fewer than 40 per cent of cars are electric.
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