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Article
| Stanford Social Innovation Review
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Spring 2013
China's Quest to Adopt Electric Vehicles
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Christopher Marquis, Hongyu Zhang and Lixuan Zhou
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Abstract
The Chinese government's effort to create an electric vehicle industry is a bold experiment in local and system-level innovation. It also provides a window into understanding the promise and peril of economic development policies, both for China and for the rest of the world.