cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/54386930

China’s gasoline-vehicle exports alone – not including EVs and plug-in hybrids – were enough last year to make it the world’s largest auto-exporting nation by volume, industry and government data show.

Even in some wealthier economies, fossil-fuel vehicles are a big part of Chinese brands’ line-up. Almost all of the cars Chery has sold to date in Australia have gasoline engines. The company only recently started to introduce plug-in models.