China gives automakers more time in world’s biggest EV plan
Bloomberg
China is giving automakers an extra year to prepare for phasing out fossil-fuel powered vehicles in the world’s largest auto market, reports Bloomberg. Carmakers will need to fulfil e-car quotas from 2019, one year later than originally planned, or face penalties. “China is sending a clear signal to large automakers that had been dragging their feet on EVs that it’s time to get on board,” said Colin McKerracher, a London-based analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
German automakers BMW AG and Volkswagen AG said they welcomed the introduction of the quotas. The companies had lobbied fiercely for a relaxation of China's e-car ambitions.
Read the article here.
Find background in the dossier The Energiewende and German carmakers.
All texts created by the Clean Energy Wire are available under a
“Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0)”
.
They can be copied, shared and made publicly accessible by users so long as they give appropriate credit, provide a
link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.