everyone i know who has driven an e.v. loves it. -- love striving it. -- loves driving it.competitive, the range has to be strong, and there has to be charging infrastructure everywhere. emily: tesla is obviously in the lead. where are you seeing competition from competitors, audio, mercedez, and what companies should tesla be worried about? cathy: every car company and board room in the world said my goodness. they need to be worried about everybody. but we see in the u.s. is so much progress. general motors is great. nissan has been around for a long time. gm and nissan now have over 200 mile cars that are affordable. that is really big. ford has historically been a laggard, and now it is moving forward on making an electric f-150. i don't think there is a car company in the world that is serious that is not investing seriously in electrification. emily: how far are we out from mainstream adoption and fully -- mainstream adoption of electric cars and fully relying on charging stations? cathy: we have a million cars already. we expect 6 million or 7 million in the next fiv

in shanghai, china has built the largest e.v. database in the world.hua: yeah. >> williams: ding xiaohua is deputy manager of the shanghai electric vehicle data center, which collects millions of bits of information every day on nearly 200,000 electric cars on this city's streets. so let's find a tesla. >> xiaohua: so this is only tesla brands. >> williams: these are all teslas? >> xiaohua: yeah, all teslas. >> williams: inside every electric vehicle in the city is a black box, automatically transmitting data to the center every 30 seconds. >> xiaohua: for example, the speeds, the mileage, the battery temperature. >> williams: and does that help the government plan for the future? >> xiaohua: yes, public charging points, how many public charging points? and where it is best place for the public charger. >> williams: there is nothing like this in the u.s., or anywhere else. because it's in real time? china is paving the way for the electric cars of the 21st century. and the blue ones are in use? >> xiaohua: yes, moving. >> williams: most of the country'

. >> you and the e.v. coalition which includes car companies that have a skin in this game as well. how successful do you think you will be in convincing washington in adjusting these tax credits wh when the president of the united states does not want to have it at all? >> it is hard to call. >> everything in washington is. >> i will say that even there is not a u.s. manufacture right now for gm obviously, tesla, that's not in supportive of this. >> we got the auto stemsees ain america that's supportive of this. >> we are not seeing a lot of distribution in the middle of the country. how do you think we are going to be able to bring adoption into the middle of the country and people are driving longer distancesndnd they'll go through their range really fast in the city, ten miles here and ten miles there. >> there are two answers to that question. first of all, there is success problems with the state, it has been a challenge right now. >> euro emissions vehicle, it is actually under challenge by the federal government, california, and coalition of states have put together standard

e.v. ample and maintenance access and then the intensity or volume of use. this really goes to how much use is expected in each area, the width of paving areas to make sure that the volume of circulation is accommodated and the materials are durable through time. with accessibility really focused on universal access, working closely with the department of public works access coordinator and the mayor's office on disability to ensure that treasure island and are accessible as possible and set a standard for accessibility. with pedestrian and bike safety, a lot of emphasis on making sure that bile asks and pedestrians are linked at the intersection in ways that allow to allow for pedestrians to see the bicyclists and ensure there aren't conflicts. we worked to make sure there's color differentiations and divide the biactivists from the -- bicyclists from the pedestrians. making sure that the pavement types are slip resistant and jointing design to ensure comfort for a wheelchair users. and then, lastly, real focus on design for the visibility impaired. and we

to accelerate the market, then fully there are some people who would expect 70% of easy sales -- of e.v could be electric vehicles by 2030. no one thinks the u.s. market will move that fast. it has to do with creating policy reasons for the manufacturing to go ahead fast. emily: what are the risks you see to tesla, which is in the lead in this market in particular? over the next few years, where are the biggest challenges? cathy: the market is growing so quickly. the market for non-luxury vehicles. there is going to be a lot of market entrance. i think that tesla will have to compete with them and compete on cost. they have got beautiful, beautiful vehicles. but look at the vehicles that kia and nissan and others are bringing to the market. they will compete with tesla, which is great. emily: good for you. cathy: exactly. emily: my interview there with the ev-go ceo. coming up, president trump boasted foxconn's expansion into wisconsin last summer, but on the ground things are not turning out as planned. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: foxconn says it still plans to build a manufacturing pl