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So Strange to Call EVs New Energy Vehicles
China created a term for electrical vehicles - new energy vehicles (NEV). I don't know how you feel, the first time I saw it, I just felt very strange. New energy? There is no new energy. Energies (god created? who knows?) are all there in different forms, coming from different channels. Human being doesn't create new energy. Electricity has been used for so many years and has been in our everyday life for generations, how come it becomes a new energy? As to where comes the electricity, it could come from many possible sources including burning coal and oil, which is even worse than driving the cars with fossil fuel.
Renewable energy is a global world for the energy obtained from nature resources like sun, wind, water. I would guess those who came up with the term "new energy" might be confused and tried to simplify the word "renewable". Certainly renewable is not new, totally different. In fact the electricity we use today mostly are not from renewable energy sources anyway, then why would we want to associate EVs with it? May just try to say we are doing a great thing for protecting the environment, but we are not. There're arguments made about how clean or dirty EVs really are - a subject for scientists to continue investigate and the answer certainly depends on where comes the electricity and how batteries or other (better) ways to store energy.
I have not found any foreign articles using the word "New Energy Vehicles" expect those reporting China news as they have use the same word China is using. When I helped a Chinese OEM to polish a ppt related to EV chargers, I changed "new energy vehicle" to simply "electrical vehicle", and they changed it back :-)
It's surprising no one in China has stood up to abolish this bad term.
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ArthurMistakes are parts of history! :)
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Leo Qin
Maybe，cars with fossil fuel is considered as traditional energy, and these with electricity，hydrogen-powered fuel， etc.， are called new energy.
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chrisWise see wisdom.Maybe this is Chinese language art.
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