In the long term, electric driving is cheaper than driving on fossil fuels. EVs are simply getting better and cheaper, and local solar, wind, and batteries will shape our electricity grid.
Valérie Hoeks is a business strategist who has spent years working at the intersection of European and Chinese business cultures and understands how Chinese business works from the inside out. In that time, one pattern has become increasingly clear to her. China is no longer operating on the sidelines of the energy transition. It is part of the system Europe is building. As a supplier of technology and materials, as a competitor, and as a partner. That reality does not call for alarmism, she argues, but for strategic awareness.
“The dependency is already there,” she says. “And it has been there for quite a while. The real question is how we deal with it.”