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China to introduce Chinese IV emission vehicles this month with new policy
Gasoline powered passenger vehicles under Chinese III emission standard will be phased out of China’s auto market soon according to new policies that will come into affect on July 1st. China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection announced recently that gasoline cars, dual-fuel (LPG/Gasoline mix) cars and pure LPG vehicles made, imported or sold after July 1 [...]
China’s MIIT Putting Together Proposal for China’s New Energy Car Industry
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced on its official website on June 22 that it has basically completed the drafting of the development planning for energy-efficient and new energy vehicle industry (2011-2020). It will make in-depth research into the concerned automakers, key parts suppliers, and institutes in the country, so as to [...]
Driven by stimulus policies, Pangda bids to become dealer of Zotye’s EV range
The all-electric car buyers in Beijing will get a total subsidy of 120,000 yuan in the second half of this year. The buyers won’t need to join the license plate lottery drawing. Besides, the latest news says that the government will exempt the travel taxes for all-electric vehicles, fuel-cell vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles to [...]
BYD to roll out EV models across China
The sales region of BYD’s new energy vehicles will expand from Shenzhen to the pilot cities like Shanghai, Changchun, Hangzhou and Hefei from the second half of this year. In the past year, BYD sold more than 400 F3DM cars and no more than 100 E6 all-electric taxis in Shenzhen. Despite subsidies as high as [...]
Driven by new energy vehicle strategy, China’s Li-ion battery industry may see explosive growth
China’s Li-ion battery industry may see explosive growth in the next three to five years due to the factors like new energy vehicle strategy, environmental problems of lead-acid batteries, and the transfer of Japan’s Li-ion battery industry to China after March 11 earthquake. The Li-ion battery manufacturers intending to attend the 3rd China (Shanghai) International [...]
Beijing’s new energy car policy has been given the go-ahead
Chinese media are reporting that the 12th five-year development planning for Beijing’s auto industry, put forward by Beijing Automotive Industry Association, was approved by the Beijing Economic and Information Technology Commission in April this year. According to the plan, the number of all-electric vehicles in Beijing is expected to reach 100,000 units by 2015, and [...]
BAIC’s C60 all electric Saab based sedan spotted out testing
Beijing Auto Industry Corporation (BAIC) are eager to get their electric sedan into the market, they have come late to the part with their self developed cars and their own home market has been put on lock down with only 20,000 new car sales happening each month. However, the Beijing municipal government are planning to [...]
Hafei to make its mini vans mild hybrids
Which company would you say is the biggest hybrid producer in China? The smart money would be on BYD, but it seems that Hafei is about to become the biggest hybrid maker in a few weeks time. By using mild hybrid technology, which is essentially a larger than normal alternator and larger battery, together the [...]
More information on the Kai Li from VW
The Kai Li brand is VW’s latest brand for the Chinese market, it is expected to be a pure electric brand but others say that its first model is likely to be electric but the rest of the models could be regular gasoline models but attached to a low cost brand. The first model from [...]
BYD releases EV taxi testing results
From Hybrid Miles: Chinese automaker BYD Auto initiated a fleet-scale test of plug-in vehicles in April 2010. This testing process included 50 BYD e6 taxis in Shenzhen as well as a handful of F3DMs used by the Housing Authority of Los Angeles. Representatives from BYD Auto announced initial test results from these plug-in fleets a [...]
FAW to produce plugin electric Besturn and Xenia MPV in July
FAW are gearing up for the future by producing a series of plugin electric vehicles, the first model will be a plugin hybrid Besturn B70 sedan whilst the second one will be the Xenia MPV which will be available as a pure electric model. According to Chinese media reports the Besturn B70 and B50 plugin [...]
Toyota aims new start in China with green technologies
Toyota president Akio Toyoda announced at the Shanghai Auto Show that the company plans to introduce all of its green technologies to China, which surprised the assembled crowds and also automotive industry analysts. It also means Toyota starts to fulfill its “new vision” in Chinese market. Actually, Toyota has been the first automaker to make [...]
Zotye Lang Yue Electric Car Commits Self Immolation in Hangzhou
Being a taxi is a hard knock life, you run up millions of clicks on the odometer and you are never really loved by driver or the millions of passengers that frequent the back seats, it comes as no surprise that this Zotye Lang Lang had seen the writing on the wall and burst into [...]
Stop start stop start: Geely Emgrand EC7 GSG mild hybrid to launch soon
The price gas in China is practically on par with a liter of locally made wine, Chinese drivers are looking to various widgets to install in their cars to lower gas prices or even moving to lower grade gasoline if they can find it in the city limits. Hybrids are something that never took off [...]
China plans to make 5,000,000 new energy vehicles in 2015?
China is a mystery land. In 2010, we produced 7,181 new energy vehicles, but 5 years later, we want a nearly thousand-fold increase, up to more than 5,045,000. That is not a groundless figure. Instead, this figure comes from detailed plans of provinces and cities. Among China’s 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities (excluding Hong [...]
Chevrolet Camaro gets green car subsidy in China
The Chevrolet Camaro is set to officially launch in China in the first quarter of 2011, although since it jumped to fame as Bumblebee in the Transformer movie franchise plenty of yellow Camaro’s have been available in China through unofficial channels. The starting price for the 3.6L model is expected to be between 400,000 and [...]
First real world reviews of F3DM leaking out
A few weeks ago the Los Angeles Housing Authority received a fleet of F3DM hybrid sedans from BYD USA for fleet testing, the initial results appear to be quite good with users reporting around 50 miles of continual power when using its electric drive train, a little less than the claimed 60 by BYD but [...]
2010 Green Car Round Sales Round Up
China is often touted as the savior of the green car industry with the majority of car manufacturers working on the development of electric cars, it seems that many of these projects may just be to win foreign investment and governmental support to gain greater access to markets. The Chinese market for new energy vehicles [...]
BYD working with LA’s Housing Authority department on fleet testing
BYD has delivered a series of BYD F3DM hybrid sedans to Los Angeles Housing Authority (HACLA) which will see the F3DM’s under go road testing in the USA. The F3DM will be able to travel for 40 to 60 miles per day on its electric power pack and can also be charged up overnight and [...]
BYD planning to kick start US business with K9 electric bus
BYD’s plans for the US market were delayed earlier this year due to BYD’s plans to make their flagship EV model more roomier in the rear as the E6′s battery pack was reportedly taking up far too much room (we say reportedly, as we’ve never seen one), however earlier this year BYD bought the Hunan [...]
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