Chinese companies increasingly developing electric, hybrid cars
Chinese consumers bought nearly 300 electric cars more this year compared to 2014.
electric car fans are obsessed with Tesla Motors tiny high-tech fleet sedans six figures, through a California ocean plant automaker a revolution in transportation electrified place China, the largest car market the world since 2009, is becoming the first place for car plug-in.
To give you an idea of how a combination of aggressive government incentives and urban smog crippling quickly transformed the market for electric vehicles in the country, consider these Chinese consumers bought more electric cars in the first 10 months of the year - almost 114,000 units, according to official industry figures - that 100 000 cars Tesla has sold since the company was founded 12 years ago.
And after the air pollution levels in China's capital hit red alert levels for the first time this week, homeowners in new car grass would have flooded local dealers asking questions about the growing list of China electric vehicles manufactured in the country at low cost.
I am considering an electric car like the new policy means electric cars aren t limited to drive on days with high pollution while other types are, Wang Chao, a car customer of 26 years in Beijing, told Reuters Chao was curious about electric cars made by BYD, maker of the electric sedan and e5 e6 electric SUV in China's major cities, petrol cars are regularly forbidden to drive on certain days when smog emergency.
A forecast published on Sunday by the China Automotive Manufactures Association CAAM predicts Chinese consumers will buy as much as 250,000 electric vehicles and rechargeable hybrid gas-electric in 2015, a massive jump of nearly 75 000 electric cars and electric partially purchased the last year's domestic automakers, including BYD, BAIC, Chery and Changan.
The forecast didn t say how many of these cars would be fully electric, but the latest figures show a massive increase in demand for cars that don t use gasoline During the first nine months of the year, Chinese bought nearly three times more electric cars than in the same period last year, from 22,258 to 87,531 sales are generated by lucrative manufacturer subsidies, tax breaks and registration fees and city driving restrictions petrol cars.
Meanwhile, American cars electric sales slow down due to lower fuel prices, which attract American car buyers for the least efficient vehicles American consumers fuel bought hybrid plug-in electric 90923 and gas-electric in the first 10 months of the year, 7 percent decrease from the same period last year, an estimate of the Electric Drive Transportation Association reported.
While the electric car demand is flying in China, it is interesting to note these zero emission or partial zero emission vehicles are a ribbon of the total market as elsewhere in the world, these cars are still such an insignificant part of the market that they have negligible effects on barely emissions.
Chinese consumers bought May 16th million passenger cars excluding commercial vehicles in the first 10 months of the year, which means that the plug-in cars account for just 1 percent of the total market.
China's electric cars are becoming hot items in the automotive market in the country over a woman passes a BYD car in a Shanghai street March 25, 2013 Photo Peter Parks AFP Getty Images.
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