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After 2015, more than 500 electric car manufacturers emerged in China thanks to the incentives provided by the Chinese government. This means hundreds of small manufacturers. Although these small manufacturers could not sell vehicles, they continued to produce electric cars. Because the Chinese government paid incentives to manufacturers for every car produced, regardless of whether the cars were sold or not. Therefore, small manufacturers continued to produce in order to survive. Since the cars produced could not be sold, they were abandoned in open-air warehouses. In the same years, there was a car sharing fleet craze in China. When most of these fleets went bankrupt, the vehicles were sent to the graveyards. On the other hand, manufacturers such as Byd Chery were constantly releasing new models because they were developing technology rapidly, and every passing day, the ranges were increasing, charging times were shortening and the efficiency of the vehicles was increasing. For this reason, these manufacturers started exchange campaigns and took back old technology vehicles. They sent these vehicles to the graveyards. Since China produced more than the demand, the country was filled with electric car graveyards.