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China to make one mln new-energy vehicles in 2012
September 03, 2008
Shanghai, September 3 (Gasgoo.com) With four or five years of efforts, there will be at least one million new-energy vehicles to be produced in China by 2010, accounting for 10% of the country's total auto output that year, a technology official in China said recently, as reported by state media today.
On a new-energy auto forum held on August 31, China's Science and Technology Minister Wan Gang first made clear the production goal of one million new-energy vehicles in 2010 in China. He said that if 10% of China-made vehicles can use new energy, the country would save 780 million liters of oil and reduced the carbon dioxide emissions by 2.3 million tons each year. But currently new-energy vehicles only have gained less than 1% market share in China.
During the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in August, the operation of many new-energy vehicles proved to be a great success. Wan noted that this successful practice is expected to boost the development and production of new-energy vehicles in China's auto industry. About 600 new-energy vehicles, including 55 electric-lithium-cell buses, 25 hybrid buses, 75 hybrid sedans, 20 fuel-cell sedans, and 410 electric cars, were used for ferrying athletes and spectators of the Olympics last month.
The Beijing Olympics is seen as a landmark in China's energy-efficiency drive and new-energy vehicle development. The global sports event had offered a golden opportunity for Chinese carmakers to develop new-energy vehicles independently with cutting-edge technologies, but it is no easy task to for them to produce one million such vehicles in 2010, said the minister.
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Chery A5 hybrid cars have done chauffeur duty at the Beijing Olympics
http://www.gasgoo.com/auto-news/1007621/China-to-make-one-mln-new-energy-vehicles-in-2012.html
September 03, 2008
Shanghai, September 3 (Gasgoo.com) With four or five years of efforts, there will be at least one million new-energy vehicles to be produced in China by 2010, accounting for 10% of the country's total auto output that year, a technology official in China said recently, as reported by state media today.
On a new-energy auto forum held on August 31, China's Science and Technology Minister Wan Gang first made clear the production goal of one million new-energy vehicles in 2010 in China. He said that if 10% of China-made vehicles can use new energy, the country would save 780 million liters of oil and reduced the carbon dioxide emissions by 2.3 million tons each year. But currently new-energy vehicles only have gained less than 1% market share in China.
During the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in August, the operation of many new-energy vehicles proved to be a great success. Wan noted that this successful practice is expected to boost the development and production of new-energy vehicles in China's auto industry. About 600 new-energy vehicles, including 55 electric-lithium-cell buses, 25 hybrid buses, 75 hybrid sedans, 20 fuel-cell sedans, and 410 electric cars, were used for ferrying athletes and spectators of the Olympics last month.
The Beijing Olympics is seen as a landmark in China's energy-efficiency drive and new-energy vehicle development. The global sports event had offered a golden opportunity for Chinese carmakers to develop new-energy vehicles independently with cutting-edge technologies, but it is no easy task to for them to produce one million such vehicles in 2010, said the minister.
Chery A5 hybrid cars have done chauffeur duty at the Beijing Olympics
http://www.gasgoo.com/auto-news/1007621/China-to-make-one-mln-new-energy-vehicles-in-2012.html
State Grid to build electric car charging stations
September 16, 2008
Shanghai, September 16 (Gasgoo.com) State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), the largest electric power transmission and distribution company in the world, has instructed its subsidiaries to speed up construction of electric car charging stations in Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin and other large cities in the country, said xinhuanet.com today.
After the power charging stations for electric cars are built in several big cities as a pilot project, these stations will serve the electric buses and electric sedans in a trial run. The nationwide coverage of the charging station network will be launched as soon as possible if the pilot project operates well enough and gets approved by the nation's top economic regulator, said a sales executive with the State Grid. The cost of building an electric car charging station is estimated at 250,000 yuan ($36,600) to 300,000 yuan.
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China's sci-tech minister Wan Gang, an expert on electric cars, recently said that, with four or five years of efforts, there will be at least one million new-energy vehicles, mostly electric ones, to be produced in China by 2012, accounting for 10% of the country's total auto output that year. This will bring huge market potentials to China's electric car makers such as BYD Auto as well as to the country's giant power distributor State Grid Corp.
To satisfy the increasing needs of electric cars, State Grid will speed up its pace of building charging stations and standardize power chargers. The company set up a charging station network around venues of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and will build more in Shanghai for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo to serve electric vehicles and future networks.
About 600 new-energy vehicles, including 55 electric-lithium-cell buses and 410 electric cars, were used in the Beijing Olympics last month. As the world's second largest car market, China strongly urges its automakers to manufacture energy-efficiency, low-emission and eco-friendly vehicles.
http://www.gasgoo.com/auto-news/1007757/State-Grid-to-build-electric-car-charging-stations.html
September 16, 2008
Shanghai, September 16 (Gasgoo.com) State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), the largest electric power transmission and distribution company in the world, has instructed its subsidiaries to speed up construction of electric car charging stations in Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin and other large cities in the country, said xinhuanet.com today.
After the power charging stations for electric cars are built in several big cities as a pilot project, these stations will serve the electric buses and electric sedans in a trial run. The nationwide coverage of the charging station network will be launched as soon as possible if the pilot project operates well enough and gets approved by the nation's top economic regulator, said a sales executive with the State Grid. The cost of building an electric car charging station is estimated at 250,000 yuan ($36,600) to 300,000 yuan.
China's sci-tech minister Wan Gang, an expert on electric cars, recently said that, with four or five years of efforts, there will be at least one million new-energy vehicles, mostly electric ones, to be produced in China by 2012, accounting for 10% of the country's total auto output that year. This will bring huge market potentials to China's electric car makers such as BYD Auto as well as to the country's giant power distributor State Grid Corp.
To satisfy the increasing needs of electric cars, State Grid will speed up its pace of building charging stations and standardize power chargers. The company set up a charging station network around venues of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and will build more in Shanghai for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo to serve electric vehicles and future networks.
About 600 new-energy vehicles, including 55 electric-lithium-cell buses and 410 electric cars, were used in the Beijing Olympics last month. As the world's second largest car market, China strongly urges its automakers to manufacture energy-efficiency, low-emission and eco-friendly vehicles.
http://www.gasgoo.com/auto-news/1007757/State-Grid-to-build-electric-car-charging-stations.html
On the Green Road
SEPT.18, 2008
China's automakers look to energy-saving hybrid vehicles as a hedge against high fuel prices
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Several Chinese automobile manufacturers are now producing
energy-efficient hybrid vehicles, hoping more car buyers will opt for
this kind of vehicle given the rising price of gasoline
China's automotive manufacturers already have won over some of the country's most hard-nosed auto consumers to the nascent hybrid vehicles market-taxi drivers.
"Hybrid vehicles are indeed much more fuel efficient," Yang Fusheng, a Beijing taxi driver who worked for the recently concluded Olympic Games, told Beijing Review. "The Chery A5 hybrid vehicle that I'm driving now saves nearly 2 liters of fuel per 100 km compared with its predecessor, a Fukang."
China's Chery Automobile Co. Ltd. (Chery) had outbid an array of domestic rivals with its 50 hybrid vehicles to offer transport services for athletes and visitors between the Olympic venues during the Games. Yang said the vehicle had remarkable engines and control systems, and more importantly was less fuel-consuming. He said he could save around 1,500 yuan ($219) per month, which would add up to about 20,000 yuan ($2,926) a year, on gas.
The lower-emitting and energy-saving vehicles feature two power systems-an onboard rechargeable electric energy storage system and a fueled power source for vehicle propulsion. They have been deemed as the future of China's automobile sector. A string of automakers have been engaged in developing them, including the joint-venture Shanghai General Motors Co. Ltd. and Guangzhou Honda Automobile Co. Ltd., as well as local players such as the Shenzhen-based BYD Auto Co. Ltd.
Wang Hewu, an associate professor with the Vehicle Engineering Department of Tsinghua University, told Beijing Review that new-energy automobiles such as hybrid, electric and hydrogen vehicles would eventually displace traditional fuel- and diesel-powered automobiles. Deficient global power supplies and soaring oil prices have been quickening the process, he said.
Wang said that hybrid vehicles have raced ahead of other new-energy automobiles in terms of market penetration, because their maturing technologies combine combustion engines and electric motors. A variety of hybrid vehicles are now on offer in China, catering to different consumer groups, he added.
The dawn of hybrids
The debut of hybrid vehicles in China dates back to 2006 when the Toyota Prius first went on sale, but their high price tags, usually around 300,000 yuan ($43,892), turned off many consumers.
The Chery A5 Hybrid, which is the lowest priced of its kind in China, has been a relative market hit. The car sells for no more than 100,000 yuan ($14,631) domestically. Brisk hybrid vehicle sales have helped make Chery one of the country's top auto brands.
Large hybrid buses are also proving popular in China and are grabbing market shares. This January, Guangzhou-based Beiqi Foton Motor Co. Ltd. (Foton) put its first 30 EuroV hybrid buses into use-a landmark stride for the Chinese automotive industry. The company has projected that its annual hybrid bus sales will surpass 500 units by 2010 and that its annual production capacity will reach 1,500 units by 2012.
The hybrid ambitions of Foton, Chery and others are not unfounded.
An online survey conducted in April by TNS Inc., the world's largest customized research company, highlighted the huge potential of China's hybrid automobile market. Of the 1,251 potential hybrid vehicle purchasers surveyed in 24 cities nationwide, 76 percent said they were well acquainted with hybrid engine technologies and would prefer buying hybrids over the fuel-powered automobiles at the same price. Wang of Tsinghua University said he believes that China's hybrid automobile market would peak around the year of 2010.
Government support
The Chinese Government has supported the research and development of new-energy vehicles, demonstrated by favorable policies enacted last November to encourage and help fine-tune the country's automakers into the sector.
In May, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) approved seven hybrid vehicle varieties for production. It is the first time that automakers have been allowed to produce so many hybrid vehicle brands.
According to Chen Quanshi, Director of the Automobile Research Institute at Tsinghua University, hybrid vehicles become a top priority for the government because they are the most instrumental in easing power shortages that are crimping the country's automobile industry. While China still lags behind such developed countries as the United States and Japan in developing fuel and diesel vehicles, it has been almost on equal footing with them in producing hybrid engine technologies, he said.
Automakers could get a further boost if the government reduces or cancels its 10-percent vehicle purchase tax on new-energy automobiles later this year as part of its energy-conservation endeavors. The draft policy adjustment has been submitted to the NDRC for approval.
Problems ahead
Despite all the good news, the country's hybrid automakers are still concerned about sagging sales. A recent report in the Automobile Observation newspaper said China's sales of Toyota Prius in July decreased a monthly 15 percent to 32 units. Jia Xinguang, chief analyst at the China Automobile Industry Consulting and Development Corp., attributed the wilting sales to the car's high price, which is unaffordable for most domestic consumers. High maintenance costs and patchy after-sale services also have upset consumers, he added.
As an emerging alternative to established traditional automobile brands, hybrid vehicles still need time to be embraced by consumers both in China and around the world in terms of their quality and prices, Jia said.
But it is widely believed in the industry that hybrid vehicles will not become a mainstay in China's automotive market over the next 50 years, because their high prices will remain a barrier to sales.
"The price cannot be lower, as it costs more to have double power systems after all," Jia said.
Even if the government reduces or exempts the tax on the sales of hybrid vehicles, their prices will still be higher than comparable fuel-powered cars, Jia said. That would remain unacceptable for domestic price-sensitive customers.
Meanwhile, expensive maintenance costs that have mainly resulted from a lack of hybrid vehicle part suppliers, also have hindered demand, said Zhang Chao, General Manager of Beijing Zhonglian Auto Market, in an article in Automobile Observation. It has been imperative for the country to fill the gap in hybrid vehicle part supplies, Zhu Jun, a manager in the technology center at Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., told the newspaper.
Chen Qingquan, President of the Asian Electric Vehicle Association, echoed Zhu's opinion, saying that China should make further efforts to ensure part supplies for hybrid vehicles and higher-quality batteries for the autos.
Jia Xinguang said domestic automakers should not expect instant success in promoting hybrid vehicles, but focus on exploring the market's potential. He added that their current promotional efforts amount to preparations for future development and sales. The more they pump into developing the hybrids now, the more returns they will be rewarded in the future, he said.
http://www.bjreview.com.cn/business/txt/2008-09/16/content_152268.htm
SEPT.18, 2008
China's automakers look to energy-saving hybrid vehicles as a hedge against high fuel prices
Several Chinese automobile manufacturers are now producing
energy-efficient hybrid vehicles, hoping more car buyers will opt for
this kind of vehicle given the rising price of gasoline
China's automotive manufacturers already have won over some of the country's most hard-nosed auto consumers to the nascent hybrid vehicles market-taxi drivers.
"Hybrid vehicles are indeed much more fuel efficient," Yang Fusheng, a Beijing taxi driver who worked for the recently concluded Olympic Games, told Beijing Review. "The Chery A5 hybrid vehicle that I'm driving now saves nearly 2 liters of fuel per 100 km compared with its predecessor, a Fukang."
China's Chery Automobile Co. Ltd. (Chery) had outbid an array of domestic rivals with its 50 hybrid vehicles to offer transport services for athletes and visitors between the Olympic venues during the Games. Yang said the vehicle had remarkable engines and control systems, and more importantly was less fuel-consuming. He said he could save around 1,500 yuan ($219) per month, which would add up to about 20,000 yuan ($2,926) a year, on gas.
The lower-emitting and energy-saving vehicles feature two power systems-an onboard rechargeable electric energy storage system and a fueled power source for vehicle propulsion. They have been deemed as the future of China's automobile sector. A string of automakers have been engaged in developing them, including the joint-venture Shanghai General Motors Co. Ltd. and Guangzhou Honda Automobile Co. Ltd., as well as local players such as the Shenzhen-based BYD Auto Co. Ltd.
Wang Hewu, an associate professor with the Vehicle Engineering Department of Tsinghua University, told Beijing Review that new-energy automobiles such as hybrid, electric and hydrogen vehicles would eventually displace traditional fuel- and diesel-powered automobiles. Deficient global power supplies and soaring oil prices have been quickening the process, he said.
Wang said that hybrid vehicles have raced ahead of other new-energy automobiles in terms of market penetration, because their maturing technologies combine combustion engines and electric motors. A variety of hybrid vehicles are now on offer in China, catering to different consumer groups, he added.
The dawn of hybrids
The debut of hybrid vehicles in China dates back to 2006 when the Toyota Prius first went on sale, but their high price tags, usually around 300,000 yuan ($43,892), turned off many consumers.
The Chery A5 Hybrid, which is the lowest priced of its kind in China, has been a relative market hit. The car sells for no more than 100,000 yuan ($14,631) domestically. Brisk hybrid vehicle sales have helped make Chery one of the country's top auto brands.
Large hybrid buses are also proving popular in China and are grabbing market shares. This January, Guangzhou-based Beiqi Foton Motor Co. Ltd. (Foton) put its first 30 EuroV hybrid buses into use-a landmark stride for the Chinese automotive industry. The company has projected that its annual hybrid bus sales will surpass 500 units by 2010 and that its annual production capacity will reach 1,500 units by 2012.
The hybrid ambitions of Foton, Chery and others are not unfounded.
An online survey conducted in April by TNS Inc., the world's largest customized research company, highlighted the huge potential of China's hybrid automobile market. Of the 1,251 potential hybrid vehicle purchasers surveyed in 24 cities nationwide, 76 percent said they were well acquainted with hybrid engine technologies and would prefer buying hybrids over the fuel-powered automobiles at the same price. Wang of Tsinghua University said he believes that China's hybrid automobile market would peak around the year of 2010.
Government support
The Chinese Government has supported the research and development of new-energy vehicles, demonstrated by favorable policies enacted last November to encourage and help fine-tune the country's automakers into the sector.
In May, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) approved seven hybrid vehicle varieties for production. It is the first time that automakers have been allowed to produce so many hybrid vehicle brands.
According to Chen Quanshi, Director of the Automobile Research Institute at Tsinghua University, hybrid vehicles become a top priority for the government because they are the most instrumental in easing power shortages that are crimping the country's automobile industry. While China still lags behind such developed countries as the United States and Japan in developing fuel and diesel vehicles, it has been almost on equal footing with them in producing hybrid engine technologies, he said.
Automakers could get a further boost if the government reduces or cancels its 10-percent vehicle purchase tax on new-energy automobiles later this year as part of its energy-conservation endeavors. The draft policy adjustment has been submitted to the NDRC for approval.
Problems ahead
Despite all the good news, the country's hybrid automakers are still concerned about sagging sales. A recent report in the Automobile Observation newspaper said China's sales of Toyota Prius in July decreased a monthly 15 percent to 32 units. Jia Xinguang, chief analyst at the China Automobile Industry Consulting and Development Corp., attributed the wilting sales to the car's high price, which is unaffordable for most domestic consumers. High maintenance costs and patchy after-sale services also have upset consumers, he added.
As an emerging alternative to established traditional automobile brands, hybrid vehicles still need time to be embraced by consumers both in China and around the world in terms of their quality and prices, Jia said.
But it is widely believed in the industry that hybrid vehicles will not become a mainstay in China's automotive market over the next 50 years, because their high prices will remain a barrier to sales.
"The price cannot be lower, as it costs more to have double power systems after all," Jia said.
Even if the government reduces or exempts the tax on the sales of hybrid vehicles, their prices will still be higher than comparable fuel-powered cars, Jia said. That would remain unacceptable for domestic price-sensitive customers.
Meanwhile, expensive maintenance costs that have mainly resulted from a lack of hybrid vehicle part suppliers, also have hindered demand, said Zhang Chao, General Manager of Beijing Zhonglian Auto Market, in an article in Automobile Observation. It has been imperative for the country to fill the gap in hybrid vehicle part supplies, Zhu Jun, a manager in the technology center at Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., told the newspaper.
Chen Qingquan, President of the Asian Electric Vehicle Association, echoed Zhu's opinion, saying that China should make further efforts to ensure part supplies for hybrid vehicles and higher-quality batteries for the autos.
Jia Xinguang said domestic automakers should not expect instant success in promoting hybrid vehicles, but focus on exploring the market's potential. He added that their current promotional efforts amount to preparations for future development and sales. The more they pump into developing the hybrids now, the more returns they will be rewarded in the future, he said.
http://www.bjreview.com.cn/business/txt/2008-09/16/content_152268.htm
Chinese company produces 1st solar-powered car
October 15, 2008
One of China's first group of solar-powered cars went on display last Friday at the 29th Zhejiang International Bicycles and Electric-powered Cars Exhibition in Hangzhou, eastern China's Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou.com.cn reported.
The mini car produced by Zhejiang's 001 Group was designed to target the increasingly serious energy crisis. The group has so far produced over 10 such cars and each of them will sell for 38,000 yuan (US$5,560).
Sheng Gangxiang, an engineer at the Zhejiang 001 Group, told reporters that the vehicles have solar panels on their roofs that turn the sun's rays into energy to get them going. The car can absorb 95 percent of the solar energy it takes in, however, it can only transform 14 to 17 percent of that into electricity, roughly the same as solar cars manufactured elsewhere.
The solar-driven car can travel 150 kilometers after 30 hours of solar charging. But an only one-hour charge will get the car going for only five kilometers.
At present, solar energy is mostly used in water heaters in China.
http://www.gasgoo.com/auto-news/1008035/Chinese-company-produces-1st-solar-powered-car.html
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Another Daewoo Matiz ?
Another thing here http://www.gasgoo.com/auto-news/1007664/China-s-first-solar-electric-car-unveiled-in-Anhui.html
so which one is the first ?
October 15, 2008
One of China's first group of solar-powered cars went on display last Friday at the 29th Zhejiang International Bicycles and Electric-powered Cars Exhibition in Hangzhou, eastern China's Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou.com.cn reported.
The mini car produced by Zhejiang's 001 Group was designed to target the increasingly serious energy crisis. The group has so far produced over 10 such cars and each of them will sell for 38,000 yuan (US$5,560).
Sheng Gangxiang, an engineer at the Zhejiang 001 Group, told reporters that the vehicles have solar panels on their roofs that turn the sun's rays into energy to get them going. The car can absorb 95 percent of the solar energy it takes in, however, it can only transform 14 to 17 percent of that into electricity, roughly the same as solar cars manufactured elsewhere.
The solar-driven car can travel 150 kilometers after 30 hours of solar charging. But an only one-hour charge will get the car going for only five kilometers.
At present, solar energy is mostly used in water heaters in China.
http://www.gasgoo.com/auto-news/1008035/Chinese-company-produces-1st-solar-powered-car.html
Another Daewoo Matiz ?
Another thing here http://www.gasgoo.com/auto-news/1007664/China-s-first-solar-electric-car-unveiled-in-Anhui.html
so which one is the first ?
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