"While American, the UK and Consumer Reports all try to figure out how to make electric and hybrid cars more appealing to consumers, China has made a bold statement that electric cars are the future, like it or not. China has announced plans to put more than a million electric vehicles onto the road each year – yes, each year, by 2015. That’s according to a report by the state-run People’s Daily, so be aware that it is most likely information being framed with a point.
According to the report, new plans for the Chinese auto industry are about to be published (most likely around the time of the new five year plan in March) and will make “new energy” cars (electric and hybrid cars) a national priority. This probably shouldn’t be shocking since most of what’s coming out regarding the new five year plan shows a heavy emphasis on carbon reduction and green energy.
China has announced a long term target of a hundred million new cars and busses to be produced each year by 2020, so in reality making a million of those each year electric or hybrid is still only fractional. But China is backing the clean energy car focus. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will be investing more than a hundred billion yuan over the next ten years to support “new energy” vehicle research and production. Then end goal? “To make China the world’s largest new energy automobile production country.” Let it not be said that they don’t always aim big in China.
Meanwhile, in India, electric vehicle production is also getting a boost. The government is offering support in developing an electric vehicle market domestically via a subsidy package in the form of tens of millions of dollars between now and 2011 that will represent 20% of each new electric vehicle sold to Indian customers. Perhaps they can save the Taj Mahal from car emission pollution after all."
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