正文翻譯

在中國，幾十年來，幾乎所有的小型車輛（踏板車、輕便摩托車、小型機(jī)動(dòng)車）都在使用電池作為動(dòng)力。為什么西方世界沒有采用這種技術(shù)？

評(píng)論翻譯

David Annett
, Embedded systems engineer, EV enthusiast，Lives in Levin, New Zealand2019–present
For the same reason people in the west stopped riding motorcycles for transport. Cars became cheap and easy and the society adapted around that. In many places where traffic is too heavy people have failed to adapt, still cling to the comfort blanket of their cars.
While the problem in the west is a failure to adapt China actually has a different problem. Cars are a status symbol there. Once they have a car they will not go back to using a scooter. I lived in China for a couple of years. I like motorcycles for transport when the weather is good so as soon as I could I purchased one. Later I saved up a bit of funds and brought a car. However I kept the motorcycle and continued to use to commute when the weather was good as it was faster and easier in the traffic. That confused the local staff, they could not understand why I would still use a motorcycle once I had a car.

出于同樣的原因，西方人也不再騎摩托車出行，在汽車變得便宜和容易獲得之后，社會(huì)也隨之適應(yīng)了這一點(diǎn)。但在許多交通過于擁擠的地方，人們無法適應(yīng)，他們?nèi)匀幌Ｍ_車出行。
雖然西方存在的問題是有些人無法適應(yīng)不依賴汽車，但中國實(shí)際上有一個(gè)不同的問題。在那里，汽車是地位的象征，一旦他們有了汽車，他們就不會(huì)再使用踏板車了。我在中國生活了兩年，我喜歡在天氣好的時(shí)候騎踏摩托車，所以我會(huì)盡快買一輛。后來我存了一點(diǎn)錢，買了一輛汽車。然而，我保留了摩托車，我會(huì)在天氣好的時(shí)候繼續(xù)使用它上下班，因?yàn)樗诜泵Φ慕煌ㄖ懈旄菀?。這讓當(dāng)?shù)氐耐赂械嚼Щ?，他們無法理解為什么我有了汽車后還會(huì)用摩托車。

Michael Ciao
, Business Owner Investor (1977-present)，Lives in San Francisco Bay Area
Because the western world excel in internal combustion engines. That is one thing China never really conquered. There are dozens of car manufacturers in China making more cars than any other countries, but they build on foreign technologies and foreign engines, and they still pay hefty loyalties to foreign auto companies, even today. The engines are mostly imported. The success seen is just a mirage.
Electric vehicles are completely different than internal combustion engines vehicles, in fact, all early vehicles were electric, but they were abandoned over the success of internal combustion engine vehicles.

因?yàn)槲鞣绞澜缟瞄L內(nèi)燃機(jī)，這是一件中國從未真正征服過的東西。雖然中國有幾十家汽車制造商，它們生產(chǎn)的汽車比其他任何國家都多，但他們依靠的是外國的技術(shù)和外國的發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)，即使在今天，他們?nèi)匀粚?duì)外國汽車公司忠心耿耿。由于中國汽車公司使用的發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)大多是進(jìn)口的，所以我們所看到的中國汽車產(chǎn)業(yè)的成功只是海市蜃樓。
電動(dòng)汽車與內(nèi)燃機(jī)汽車完全不同，事實(shí)上，早期所有的汽車都是電動(dòng)的，但它們被內(nèi)燃機(jī)汽車的成功所拋棄。

Electric vehicles is the salvation for Chinese auto industry, this is one rare and only chance Chinese auto industry can leapfrog pass all western and Japanese auto makers in this once in the lifetime opportunity.
China has been quietly pouring all resources into electric vehicles for many years, now it leads in many subcategories in this field, most critically, the battery. China did that openly but nobody was watching, they are all busy bashing China.
The west and Japan are too successful in internal combustion engines to go into this new direction. All their revenue are from internal combustion engines.

電動(dòng)汽車是中國汽車產(chǎn)業(yè)的救星，是中國汽車產(chǎn)業(yè)能夠在這千載難逢的機(jī)會(huì)中超越所有西方和日本汽車制造商的難得的也是唯一的機(jī)會(huì)。
多年來，中國一直在悄悄地將所有資源投入電動(dòng)汽車產(chǎn)業(yè)，現(xiàn)在它在該領(lǐng)域的許多子類別中處于領(lǐng)先地位，最關(guān)鍵的是：電池。中國公開在做，但沒有人注意，他們都在忙著抨擊中國。
西方和日本在內(nèi)燃機(jī)方面過于成功，以至于它們無法轉(zhuǎn)向這一新方向，因?yàn)樗麄兯械氖杖攵紒碜詢?nèi)燃機(jī)汽車。

Mike Azeka
13 years experience with large scale solar power，Lives in The United States of America1965–present
As of 2020 China had 17 million gasoline powered motorcycles but at least 300 million electric scooters. A big reason is likely cost, electric scooters are ten times cheaper than a gas powered car, and about half the price of a gasoline motorcycle, and cheaper to run than a gas powered motorcycle. Gas powered cycles are also banned in some Chinese cities due to air pollution. The 300 million owners don't have the much larger incomes that westerners have, most Chinese earn 1/4 to 1/2 as much as their western counterparts. By western standards, these Chinese are poor. Very few westerners drive low cost electric scooters like are common in China. Why didn't westerners buy cheap, small, slow electric scooters? Because they can afford gasoline powered cars.

截至2020年，中國有1700萬輛以汽油為動(dòng)力的摩托車，但同時(shí)至少有3億輛電動(dòng)踏板車。一個(gè)重要的原因可能是成本，電動(dòng)踏板車的價(jià)格比以汽油為動(dòng)力的汽車便宜十倍，大約是以汽油為動(dòng)力的摩托車的一半。由于空氣污染，中國一些城市也禁止使用以燃?xì)鉃閯?dòng)力的摩托車。
3億踏板車主沒有西方人那么高的收入，大多數(shù)中國人的收入是西方同行的1/4到1/2。按照西方的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，這些中國人很窮。很少有西方人會(huì)像中國人一樣駕駛低成本的電動(dòng)踏板車，為什么西方人不買更便宜、更小、更慢的電動(dòng)踏板車呢？那是因?yàn)樗麄冑I得起以汽油為動(dòng)力的汽車。