In the essay of the final project, you're expected to complete the following two tasks in the project: 1. Conduct a Comparative study of the global market competition in electric cars (or electric vehicles, EVs). Your essay may include: Review or survey of the global EV market; Where Chinese EVs stand in the global competition; Pattern of the global market (e.g.: US providing subsidies, EU hurrying their development; traditional giants in Japan, Korea and France etc. facing challenges during transition) 2. From both the supply side and the demand side, identify the key driving factors of EV development in China. You may include: Did China enjoy a first mover's advantage? Or is it because of that China has a developed battery industry in the first place? Other factors and how they affected the development of Chinese EVs

Please demonstrate your arguments with statistical evidence.