New Energy Vehicle
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As China stares down climate change and smog alerts in numerous cities, the central government has extended its tax rebates for hybrid and electric vehicles for another three years. Announced on December 27, the move is one of many recently that will eventually see traditional internal-combustion cars all but eliminated from new vehicles sales in the country. The changes to vehicle policy in China have sparked a growing electric vehicle industry, with both new and established companies vying for customers amid the shift. DON'T MISS: 2017's most important green car story: internal-combustion...
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Honda to launch electric car in China next year too, joining Toyota, reluctantly
While corporate average fuel-economy standards through 2021 remain in place in the U.S., automakers are preparing their case to argue for delays in further tightening. Meanwhile, China is turning the policy screws on automakers operating in the country, telling them they must sell more electric...
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Electric-car winds in China shift again: goals to be cut after sales fall?
Eight weeks ago, China seemed to be preparing to loosen its famously strict car-manufacturing rules for foreign makers. The government leaders who direct economic policy had seemingly concluded that Chinese makers could not succeed in selling cars in Europe and North America. So the country...
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NEVS gets production nod for electric-car plant in China
Since it bought the assets of bankrupt automaker Saab in 2012, Chinese-backed consortium National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) has been working toward mass production of electric cars. But despite ambitious plans for a multi-model lineup of electric cars, the company has made relatively little...
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China to loosen electric-car rules for foreign makers, because they didn't work
It has long been official Chinese government industrial policy to dominate the world's production of lithium-ion battery cells and to establish a commanding electric-car industry. This would not only position the country in crucial industries of the future but give it a way to start attacking the...
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China to crack down on green-car subsidy cheating: report
China plans to tighten regulations related to its electric-car subsidies.
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It has been an official goal of the Chinese government to encourage the development and sale of plug-in electric cars for several years now. They are intended not only to help fight the choking air pollution in many parts of the country, but also give China's auto industry an edge in future decades. And because the country makes more lithium-ion battery cells than any other, it would all seem to fit together nicely. DON'T MISS: Chinese Car-Share Dispenses Electric Cars Like A Vending Machine (Dec 2013) That said, however, various national, state, and local efforts to incentivize the sale and...
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BYD electric-car sales may triple this year, Chinese maker says
China's BYD eked out a global victory in electric-car sales last year, selling more plug-in cars than BMW, General Motors, Nissan, Renault, or Tesla. The company delivered nearly 62,000 battery-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles last year, almost entirely in China. Now, the company projects that...
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All Those Plug-In Hybrid Models? They're For China, More Than The U.S.
Between now and 2020, the three German luxury brands--Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz-- will collectively add more than a dozen plug-in hybrid models to their lineups. The goal is to offer a plug-in hybrid version for almost all of their most popular vehicles, most with U.S. range ratings of 15 to 25...
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2017 Cadillac CT6 Plug-In Hybrid To Be Imported From China To U.S.
Of the three vehicles using GM's newest hybrid system, we know rather less about the 2017 Cadillac CT6 Plug-In Hybrid than we do about either the Chevrolet Volt or the Chevy Malibu Hybrid. But with first media drives of the conventional CT6 now published, we know a bit more than we did before. For...
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Who Sold The Most Plug-In Electric Cars In 2015? (It's Not Tesla Or Nissan)
Five years after the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt first went on sale, plug-in vehicles represent slightly less than 1 percent of U.S. new-car deliveries. With about 200,000 sold, the Leaf is the world's most popular electric car. But which carmaker sold the most cars with plugs last year, worldwide?...
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NEVS Cuts Deal For Sale Of 150,000 Electric Saabs In China
Saab owner NEVS says it will provide 150,000 electric cars to a Chinese leasing firm.
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The Chinese government is expected to enact more electric-car friendly measures in its next five-year plan.
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China Built 25,000 Electric Cars & Plug-In Hybrids In June Alone
The Chinese vehicle market is now the world's largest, and has been for a few years now. And the country's government-industrial complex has ambitious plans to dominate global production of plug-in electric vehicles, both for reasons of competitiveness and as one effort to start to reduce its...
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What If China's Plug-In Hybrids Were Never Actually Plugged In? (Or California's?)
China has had difficulty getting its New Energy Vehicle program off the ground for a number of reasons. While it was initially focused on battery-electric vehicles, buyers have proven more receptive to plug-in hybrids--and virtually every carmaker selling in China will offer one or more in the next...
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Cue Kandi Store Jokes: Small Electric Car Goes On Sale In China
Kandi Technologies Group plans to expand beyond carsharing to actual electric-car sales.
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Will China Overtake The U.S. In Electric-Car Sales This Year?
Modern plug-in electric cars have been on sale in the U.S. since December 2010, and in China even longer. The BYD F3DM, a compact plug-in hybrid sedan, went into very limited production in 2008, though early deliveries were strictly to fleets and government agencies. DON'T MISS: China Overtook U.S...
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2016 BYD Tang: Plug-In Hybrid SUV Is First Of Four To Come
It's been more than six years since fabled investor Warren Buffet bought 10 percent of BYD Autos, one of the few independent Chinese automakers. At that time, the company had big plans to become China's largest producer of plug-in electric vehicles--and then export them to the U.S. DON'T MISS: BYD...
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A lottery prioritizing electric-car purchases failed to produce the desired results.
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China Adds More Electric-Car Subsidies, Still Ignores Hybrids
Under its "new energy vehicle" policy, China will subsidize the purchase of electric cars, plug-in hybrids, and hydrogen cars, but not hybrids.
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China Rigs Electric-Car Incentives Against Chevy Volt, Foreign Cars
Here in the U.S. the government, both at the federal and state level, offers an array of incentives for eco friendly vehicles such as clean diesels, plug-in hybrids and electric cars. However, the U.S. isn’t the only major automotive market with such incentive programs in place. Over in China...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran