New Energy Vehicles Difficult to Sell
2013-05-06 Source:www.chinabuses.org
www.chinabuses.org: New energy vehicles highlight 2013 Auto Shanghai, and the development of new energy vehicles are driven by the deteriorating environment and central government's policies. But sales of the vehicles are influenced by difficulties to charge, short driving mileages, non-complete mating devices and high prices etc.
SAIC has invested 6 billion Yuan on development of new energy vehicles, and they have adopts water-cooing to avoid explosion of the battery, and the safety of the vehicles can be guaranteed after 40 crash tests.
World research institutes are full of expectation on China new energy vehicle markets, and PWC auto department predicts that the market shares for hybrid and new energy vehicles will reach 6.3% in 2020, and China maybe become the largest markets with more than five million new energy vehicles running on the road.
China released Energy-saving and New Energy Vehicle Development Plan 2012-2020, and they are expecting production and sales of pure electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles will amout to 500,000 units in 2015, and the amount will reach two million units in 2020.
According to statistics from CAAM, 12,791 new energy vehicles were sold in 2012, accounting for 0.7% of China auto markets. There is a long way to go for promotion and sales of new energy vehicles.
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