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20:08, 18-Oct-2017
China's electric car output to hit one million next year: BAIC chairman
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China’s electric vehicle (EV) production could touch 1 million units next year and 3 million units by 2020, likely exceeding the target, said Xu Heyi, chairman of carmaker BAIC Group, on Wednesday.
China is aiming to produce 2 million EVs a year by 2020 and 7 million units five years later, amounting to a fifth of total car production by 2025.
The country produced 424,000 new energy vehicles in the first three quarters of this year, including hybrids, up 40.2 percent compared with the same period of 2016, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.
“The trend is definite,” Xu told reporters on the sidelines of the ongoing 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
“Rather than the time when gasoline-fueled cars are withdrawn, it is more important to consider the extent to which new energy vehicles are popularized, or their market share,” Xu said.
An industry ministry official said last month that China was already looking into setting a timetable to ban the production and sale of cars using traditional fuels.
Wang Chuanfu, chairman of leading EV producer BYD, said in September that all of China’s vehicles could be “electrified” by as early as 2030.
Source(s): Reuters