炒作商总有过度宣传的习惯，但不可否认的是，中国在电动汽车领域让美国显得颇为过时。部分原因在于车联网服务的深度整合，以及汽车作为车主数字生活延伸的概念——想想额外的信息娱乐屏幕和AI个人助手，但更新节奏却像安卓手机厂商那样，而非传统车企。其他进步听起来更具吸引力。中国的主机厂正在展开谁充电最快的竞争，本周吉利发起了最新一轮攻势。
Hype merchants have a habit of overdoing it, but there’s no denying that China is making the US look more than a little antiquated when it comes to electric vehicles. Some of that is due to a deep integration of connected services and an extension of the car as part of the owner’s digital life—think additional infotainment screens and AI personal assistants, but with an Android phone-maker’s cadence of updates rather than that of a traditional car company. Other advances sound more appealing. China’s OEMs are in a battle over who can charge the fastest, and this week, Geely fired its latest salvo.
中国的驾驶文化可能比北美或欧洲年轻得多，但时间足以让那些驾驶者习惯了加满一箱油需要多久。尽管电动汽车在许多方面优于内燃机车辆——效率高得多、扭矩即时、NVH（噪声、振动与声振粗糙度）极低、可靠性更高等等——但电动汽车充电仍比给燃油车加油耗时更长。至少直到现在，似乎不再如此。
China might have a much younger driving culture than North America or Europe, but it has still been long enough to condition those drivers to how long it takes to fill a tank of gas. For all their many improvements over internal combustion engine vehicles—far greater efficiency, instant torque, very little NVH, more reliabiity, and so on—EVs do still take longer to recharge than it takes to refuel a car with a liquid. At least until now, it seems.