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The whole world has always been hesitant about electric vehicles, especially Western countries, who are twisted into a twist deep in their hearts.

The trend of electric vehicles in history was caused by 2008.

When talking about 2008, many people think of the economic crisis, but in fact, for Chinese people who have experienced 2008, the most memorable thing they are probably the crazy international oil prices.

On January 2, 2008, international oil prices officially exceeded the price of US$100 per barrel, and then began to rise continuously, and finally reached its peak in July 2008, with the price of crude oil per barrel as high as US$150.

You should know that in 2002, the price of crude oil per barrel was only US$20, and it increased by nearly 7.5 times in 6 years.

Not to mention the reason for the surge in international oil prices, the most important point is that this made humans realize that gasoline cars may not be such a perfect thing.

Before 2008, many environmentalists actually called for not using gasoline cars to pollute the environment. What impressed Boss Jia the most was that in a novel, the male protagonist Tao Ge relied on a car exhaust purifier device and achieved the peak of his life.

Ahem, I won’t talk about this. Anyway, the call for environmental protection before 2008 was very high, but the market has never moved. Except for the occasional one or two car companies that can’t think of have done some electric car research and development, all car companies choose to turn a blind eye to electric cars and still build their fuel vehicles.

After all, if you build an electric car, it is to smash the fuel car market, which is equivalent to suicide.

However, as international oil prices soared to $150 per barrel, the direct consequence was that car sales fell by 60% that year, and all auto companies fell into huge losses.

General Motors and Chrysler Motor, which were also ranked among the top 500 in the world in 2005, finally announced in 2008 that they were ineffective and insolvent, and eventually went bankrupt.

Of course, the more important reason is that the financial crisis in 2008 broke the bank's capital chain, which also led to the breaking of the capital chains of these two companies.

But if these two companies did not see a huge decline in sales in the second quarter of the year, it would not make all financial institutions desperate about the debt repayment ability of these two automobile companies, which would lead to the collapse of the stock market and eventually buried it directly.

What’s ridiculous is that although car sales have declined and many automobile companies have gone bankrupt, oil prices have risen even harder, because the sales volume of crude oil exploiters such as Saudi Arabia has declined due to the surge in crude oil prices. If sales cannot increase in a short period of time, they can only increase oil prices to ensure their own profits.

This cannot be blamed on these countries being too dark. It is because the region is too chaotic and many countries have stopped production. Some countries have also had high welfare policies and their own enjoyment must be maintained. The country's fiscal policy is in a serious deficit crisis. If the profits of crude oil fall, they will also collapse. They have to continue to increase the unit price of crude oil.

In addition, the financial crisis at that time, countless people were unemployed and lost their income, and there was no money to buy cars or buy gasoline. Walking was the most economical and cost-effective way, which further led to a decline in car sales and gasoline consumption.

This formed an unsolvable closed loop. At that time, auto manufacturers were frightened to find that if this situation lasted for another two or three years, 80% of the global automobile industry would go bankrupt, and gas stations would also be over, everyone would die together, and everyone would walk to work!

So the automobile industry at that time took the initiative to join forces and announced that they would support environmental protection and electric vehicles. Many countries with relatively large automobile industries even set up a timetable, saying that their country would completely cut off the sales of gasoline vehicles many years ago, so that all the whole country would sell environmentally friendly and clean electric vehicles.

For example, Italy announced that it will completely stop selling fuel vehicles after 2024.

Mexico, Norway and other countries are in 2025

The United States in 2029

Fuso is 2035

Moreover, these automobile companies are not joking. They are investing real money to develop electric vehicles, and many research centers have been established.

Seeing this scene, OPEC's member states panicked. They found that the energy market they rely on might be over, so international oil prices began to slowly fall and no longer surged.

So before 2005, the automobile industry around the world was not forced by oil prices and was indifferent to electric cars. However, recently, these international automobile companies have begun to care about electric cars because in China, which they regard as the largest market in the future, their cars cannot be sold.

Everyone in the automotive industry is smart. Although they always speak of China, they all know that China is destined to become the second largest automobile consumer market in the future after the United States. Whoever can occupy the Chinese market will be able to gain the dominant position in the future.

European automobile companies here seem smarter. For example, Volkswagen began to deploy China in the 1970s, and then the BAT, which is familiar to the Chinese people, also successively deployed China in the 1980s.

Then there were Fusang and the Koreans, and they all came.

After 2000, the entire Chinese automobile market was basically in a state of chaos. Dozens of internationally renowned automobile brands have established joint ventures in China to sell cars, and the Chinese market has occupied their most important profit margin.

During this period, these foreign car companies lived the most comfortable life.

However, since 2002, these comfortable days have passed away. These companies were frightened to find that the sales of their joint venture vehicles in China have more than doubled, and they are falling every year. It is estimated that in a few years, sales will fall directly.

What's even more fucking is that many companies that originally had a joint venture with them and founded a joint venture car company suddenly expressed their intention to withdraw from the cooperation, and then they automatically withdrew from all their shares in the joint venture. These local Chinese companies actually abandoned them, such noble foreign merchants. It was simply unbearable for uncles and aunts.

But this is a fact. These foreign companies are about to lose the entire Chinese market.

Later they found out that the culprit of all this was Daqian Group. This company in China uses almost free prices to promote their electric vehicle technology, and also spends huge amounts of money to build a new battery swap station. It completely repels the original fuel vehicle system in just three years. Now almost all driving on the roads in China are electric vehicles.

Especially in 2005, with the collapse of YLK's SDM regime, the Americans took over the oil wells that originally belonged to the YLK government, and international oil prices began to soar. Now international oil prices have exceeded US$60, while China's oil prices have risen from 3 yuan to 6 yuan.

How could Chinese people tolerate such oil prices? It would be fine if they had no choice before. Now that they have electric cars, who can still be slaughtered by this oil price?

As a result, the sales of fuel vehicles fell to the bottom. Many joint ventures noticed the general trend and naturally threw away the foreign companies that were originally joint ventures and went to build electric vehicles wholeheartedly.

After all, you have cooperated with foreign companies so well. Technical patents and brands are always owned by others, and you can only make some money by yourself.

But electric cars are completely their own things. Which one will they choose is a choice that fools understand.