China's New Energy Vehicle Surging

[cirr]

The latest figures show that production and sales of new-energy vehicle continue to gain momentum.

China's new energy vehicle production rises rapidly

Aug 05,2015

BEIJING, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Chinese automakers produced 20,400 new energy vehicles in July, 3.5 times as many as the month last year, after the government promoted the sector, official data showed on Wednesday.

They produced 12,345 new energy passenger vehicles last month, up 159 percent year on year. Production of new energy commercial vehicles surged 677 percent to 8,045 units, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

The July data brought total output of new energy vehicles in the first seven months to about 98,900 units, up 300 percent over the same period last year.

The MIIT did not provide figures for sales of such vehicles.

The Ministry of Commerce announced earlier this year that China will continue to build charging facilities in cities and allow tax exemptions and subsidies on new energy vehicle purchases.

In March, the Ministry of Transport set a target of having 300,000 new energy commercial vehicles on China's roads by 2020: 200,000 new energy buses and 100,000 new energy taxis and delivery vehicles.

China's new energy vehicle production rises rapidly | Shanghai Daily

 

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China Zhongwang and Brilliance Bus partner to develop all-aluminum new energy public buses
20 July 2015

China Zhongwang Holdings Limited, the second largest industrial aluminum extrusion product developer and manufacturer in the world and the biggest one in Asia, has successfully designed, manufactured and developed all-aluminum new energy electric buses for Brilliance Bus (Dalian) Company Limited. This co-operation marks China Zhongwang’s inauguration as the first and only aluminum processing enterprise in China to have the capability of undertaking both the design and manufacturing of all-aluminum new energy public buses.

The frame and body of this new public bus model use aluminum alloy as the key material. Its weight is reduced by 40% compared to its steel counterparts. Aluminium-bodied vehicles are more durable, corrosion resistant and have better vibration absorption capabilities. The lighter auto bodies increase the vehicles’ driving range, thereby conserving energy and reducing operating costs.



In order to reduce the urban air pollution problem, China has enacted policies to encourage the development of new energy vehicles. These policies have played an important role in driving the growth of aluminum applications.

China Zhongwang has now completed two vehicle prototypes for Brilliance Bus, of which the first prototype is for display, and the second is currently undergoing road tests. It will commence mass production after passing the road test.

China Zhongwang has been focusing on the light-weight development of transportation, machinery and equipment and electric power engineering sectors through the provision of quality industrial aluminum extrusion products. It now has 93 internationally advanced aluminum extrusion production lines including 21 production lines of large-scale aluminum extrusion presses of 75MN or above.

In addition, to further leverage its existing strengths in the industry, the Group is developing the high value-added aluminum flat-rolled product project. With a total designed annual production capacity of 3 million tonnes, the project is scheduled for development in two phases.

Phase I of the project with a planned annual production capacity of 1.8 million tonnes consists of two production lines. Plant construction has been completed and equipment installation and testing is underway, to be followed closely by trial operation. This new business venture will not only enable the Group to further capitalize on its leading edge in aluminum alloy smelting and casting and product research and development, but also achieve synergies with its existing industrial aluminum extrusion and deep processing businesses by taking full advantage of their customer and market resources in related downstream application sectors.

Brilliance Bus (Dalian) Co., Ltd. was established on July 29, 2010 with investments from Brilliance Automotive Investment (Dalian) Co., Ltd, as an automobile manufacturing enterprise. Brilliance Bus is committed to the development and manufacturing of new energy buses, new energy transportation vehicles and high-end private cars.

The company’s current products include city buses, group tourist buses, clean energy LNG buses, new energy all-electric buses, non-tank conversion transportation vehicles, all-electric sanitation vehicles and more. As well, the company is also involved in the entire vehicle production line from welding, painting, assembling and manufacturing to vehicle performance tests and processing of various equipment parts.

In addition to the manufacturing of passenger vehicles and expansion of new product categories, Brilliance Bus also serves as the production platform for Dalian’s special category coaches, new energy vehicles and school buses.

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[cirr]

All aluminium for light weight？

Lithium-aluminium or lithium-manganese would be even better！

For a given weight，light vehicle body means more battery which in turn leads to longer range。

China is one of only a few countries that are abundant in lithium（both brine and spodumene），not to mention that Chinese companies control two of the world's largest spodumene mines in Australia。

 

[cirr]

Industry insiders: China to become world's largest market for new energy vehicles

Xinhua News Agency

Aug 12, 2015

BEIJING, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- China is set to pass the U.S. and become the world's largest market for new energy vehicles this year as supporting measures from the government start to pay off, industry insiders observe.

"The market for new energy vehicles is moving from demonstration to growth, and the Chinese market is likely to be the world's largest this year," said Dong Yang, vice chairman of the country's automobile guild.

In the first seven months of this year, sales of new energy vehicles increased by 2.6 times year on year to nearly 90,000 despite sluggish auto sales in general. Production exceeded 95,500, up 2.5 times from the same period last year.

Greener growth and cleaner air is part of China's national strategy. Governments at central and local levels keep rolling out encouraging policies to attract private consumers, including tax exemptions, price subsidies and free number plates.

In the national capital Beijing, where exhaust emissions largely contribute to the notorious smog, a fresh round of "special treatment" for new energy vehicles include free parking and exemption from number plate traffic controls were established.

Many Beijingers are so tempted that, in the lotteries through which number plates are allocated, the chance of getting a plate for an electric car has sharply dropped from 100 percent to 40 percent within two months since applicants surged dramatically.

"Although not suitable for long-distance trips, driving it in the city is good enough," said Shu Xiaomei, a college professor in Beijing who bought a pure electric car in June.

Shu considers the deal "cost-effective", as the new vehicles cost only half the price of their gas counterparts thanks to government subsidies. But a lack of charging facilities remains a major inconvenience, she added.

Industry regulators and automakers have been pushing for supporting infrastructure to further increase the appeal of electric vehicles.

Guangzhou City government specified that at least 18 percent of new residential or public parking lots should be installed with charging facilities.

U.S. electric car maker Tesla promised to help build more public charging facilities in China. It now has hundreds of supercharging stations and more than 1,400 public charging poles across the country.

By 2020, China plans to have five million new energy vehicles on its roads as well as 4.5 million charging stations.

Chinese consumers prefer plug-in hybrids to pure electric cars as they run for longer and are not so reliant on charging facilities, according to the latest report by China Association of Automobile Manufacturers and global marketing research firm Nielsen.

However, as pure electric cars enjoy more preferential policies, sales almost doubled compared with hybrids in the first half of 2015.

The number of pure electric cars and plug-in hybrids produced domestically should top 1 million by 2020, according to the "Made in China 2025" plan for Chinese manufacturing released by the cabinet in May.

Industry insiders: China to become world's largest market for new energy vehicles | GlobalPost

 

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Dongfeng, Saab-parent company to develop new-energy cars
August 17, 2015

Chinese automaker Dongfeng Motor on Monday entered into a deal with the owner of Swedish auto brand Saab to develop new-energy vehicles.

Dongfeng and National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB (NEVS), which bought Saab Automobile in 2012, will collaborate on pure electric and extended-range electric vehicle research.

Dongfeng will support the construction of NEVS R&D and production bases in Tianjin by sharing its local expertise of suppliers, dealers and auto production.

NEVS will help with Dongfeng's own brands meet European legal and technical requirements, and aid Dongfeng access major auto markets around the world.

Based in central China's Hubei Province, Dongfeng is a state-owned commercial and passenger vehicle enterprise, it also deals in auto parts and vehicle manufacturing equipment.

The company's Shanghai-listed share surged by the daily limit of 10 percent on Monday.

China's production and sales of new energy vehicles saw explosive growth this year following government incentives, including subsidies, tax cuts and discounts.

In the first seven months, Chinese automakers made 95,530 new-energy vehicles, up 250 percent from a year earlier, while sales surged 260 percent to 89,549 vehicles.

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GM China JV builds 200,000 new energy vehicle plant
August 21, 2015

SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co. on Friday started construction of a new energy vehicle plant with the intention of turning out 200,000 vehicles each year.

Investing 3 billion yuan (470 million U.S. dollars), SAIC-GM-Wuling joined many rivals in the new energy vehicle sector betting on huge market potential.

China pays high subsidies on new energy vehicles to reduce pollution.

In the first seven months of this year, sales of new energy vehicles increased by 2.6 times year on year to nearly 90,000 despite weak auto sales in general.

On Friday, the automaker also started operations of an assembly plant with an annual production capacity of 400,000 conventional vehicles.

The company sold 217,000 Baojun cars in the first seven months of the year, up 424 percent.

Established in 2002, the automaker is a joint venture between General Motors, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. and Liuzhou Wuling Motors Co. Its sales in 2014 exceeded 1.8 million vehicles.

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[TaiShang]

China new energy vehicle output surges in August
September 9, 2015

Chinese automakers produced 24,500 new energy vehicles in August, up 372 percent from a year earlier, official data showed on Wednesday.

The output was also higher than 20,400 vehicles manufactured in July, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in a statement.

Among them, about 65 percent were new energy passenger vehicles, while the remainder were commercial vehicles, the statement said.

In the first eight months, production totaled 123,500, up 297 percent from the same period last year.

The sector has seen explosive growth in the past two years, as the government promotes the use of new energy vehicles with subsidies and tax cuts in a bid to cut emissions and save energy.

 

[TaiShang]

China to deliver 500 new-energy buses to Thailand
September 29, 2015

Chinese bus maker BONLUCK will deliver 500 new energy buses to Thailand by the end of this year.

The gas buses were ordered by a Bangkok bus company in a 50-million dollar deal signed in 2014, said Li Han, vice general manager of CHTC BONLUCK BUS Co., Ltd.

The buses are designed to carry a maximum of 100 passengers each, Li said.

The Jiangxi-based company has been exploiting new markets outside China, Li said. It signed a deal to export 100 buses to Turkmenistan in Central Asian earlier this year.

"We're a beneficiary of the Road and Belt Initiative," Li said, adding that the countries along the Silk Road have become a new focus of the company's overseas expansion.

Proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013, the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road center around overland and maritime trade routes that once linked China with the rest of Asia and Europe.

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[cirr]

A nice little earner。

New-energy vehicles are all the rage in China right now，constituting another menifestation of the New Normal。

 

[AndrewJin]

China goes greener with plans to add charging network to handle 5 million new energy vehicles

By the turn of the new decade China’s subsidies will have to handle the addition of more electric car recharging stations, looking the build the necessary infrastructure to handle 5 million new energy vehicles.

The term refers to China’s designation of the category that includes not only electric vehicles (battery and hydrogen powered) but also plug in hybrids and governmental support to erect new charging facilities will be expanded – local government have also been asked to highlight their policies and incentive offers on the matter, commented the State Council in guidelines posted on its website, without giving specific details though. The cabinet added that all newly constructed residential buildings should be equipped with charging facilities or have a reserved space for them. This new green strategy comes after Vice Premier Ma Kai has urged local governments to hasten the addition of charging infrastructure – seen as a major issue that handicaps the development of the electric auto industry.

China has turned its attention to the development of electric and plug in hybrid cars as a strategic part of its plan to become an automotive technology leader, cut the country’s pollution and lower its dependence on imported oil. While the government and local authorities have enabled subsidies and incentives to both carmakers and consumers, electric auto sales have been well below envisioned state levels also because buyers feared they would have no easy access to charging networks.

 

[cirr]

Will Next Chinese Five-Year Plan Boost Electric Cars Dramatically?

By Stephen Edelstein

Oct 18, 2015

BYD e6 electric taxi in service in Shenzhen, China

Over the past few years, the Chinese government has aggressively promoted electric cars with incentives and preferential policies.

Those policies may finally be paying off, as multiple analyses have shown a major increases in sales of electric cars and plug-in hybrids in China this year.

But China is still reportedly falling behind previously-set sales targets, which may force the government to take even more aggressive action.

DON'T MISS: China Built 25,000 Electric Cars & Plug-In Hybrids In June Alone

The country's next five-year plan could emphasize electric-car adoption to a greater extent, according to Bloomberg.

The Communist Party--which will present the 13th Five-Year Plan at a plenum later this month--may emphasize the building of charging stations and improving the efficiency of batteries.

This would help address some of the major drawbacks to electric cars in China.

Kandi electric car vending machine in China (Image: Aaron Rockett, video screen grab)

In particular, lack of charging infrastructure has kept sales of all-electric vehicles down. Many of the plug-in cars sold in China are plug-in hybrids.
But without readily available charging stations, many of those cars hardly ever get plugged in, and so spend little time operating on electric power.

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The national government hopes that promoting electric cars, plug-in hybrids, and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles--collectively known as "New Energy Vehicles"--will help reduce the country's infamous air pollution.

It's offered subsidies to buyers of new electric cars, while local city governments have given electric-car buyers priority in lotteries for vehicle registrations.

Yet there are reportedly just 220,000 plug-in cars on Chinese roads, or about 22 percent of the goal originally set for 2015.

Venucia E30 (Chinese version of Nissan Leaf electric car), Guangzhou Auto Show [photo: ChinaAutoWeb]

The next five-year plan is also expected to emphasize consolidation of the Chinese auto industry, which is currently comprised of more than 100 manufacturers of varying sizes.

Last week, China's State Council reiterated its support for New Energy Vehicles, and warned local governments not to interfere with that policy.

MORE: Will China Overtake The U.S. In Electric-Car Sales This Year?

It warned against any local-level policies that might restrict the sale or use of electric cars.

It also threatened to cut back on fuel and operating subsidies if cities were seen to be dragging their feet on adoption of cleaner buses for public transportation.

Will Next Chinese Five-Year Plan Boost Electric Cars Dramatically?

 

[tranquilium]

From technical perspective, electric vehicle is a more suitable for China than US (relatively speaking). Most of the US population is rather spread out due to early availability of vehicles. It is rather common for people in US to travel twenty to thirty mile to get to their work location. In comparison, the Chinese population tends to stay in one place, thus requiring short travel distance. One of the main problem with electric vehicle within the next five year will be the capacity of the batteries and by extension the size and range of the vehicle. Shorter travel distance will help offset this weakness.

 

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China to become world's No.1 electric car market
December 6, 2015

Electric cars get charged at a rental station in the Tsinghua University Science Park in Beijing, capital of China, May 23, 2013. [Xinhua]


Electric car sales in China are expected to reach 220,000 to 250,000 this year, surpassing the U.S. to rank first worldwide, China Association of Automobile Manufactures (CAAM) forecast.

Worldwide electric cars sales will hit 600,000 and the figure for the U.S. market is estimated to be 180,000, said Xu Yanhua, deputy secretary-general of CAAM.

Although China has achieved rapid development in electric vehicles, quality instead of quantity should be focused on for the sustainable development of the industry, Xu told an industry conference.

In particular, vehicle safety and the quality of batteries should be carefully examined and supervised, she added.

China's new energy vehicle sector has seen explosive growth in the past two years, thanks to the government's support policies including subsidies and tax cuts.

In the first ten months, the sales of electric cars surged 290 percent year on year to 171,145, CAAM data showed.

 

[Beidou2020]

Another area where China is number 1.

Good.

 

[GoldenRatio1618]

electric jet engine will be appreciated if china will lead in this field jointly with Pakistan now for drones and in future for 6th generation jet fighters by 2040..

 

[cirr]

Looking forward to sales in excess of 500000 for 2016.