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Volkswagen to Roll Out an Electric Car in China. Can It Help Reduce the Smog?

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday April 27 2017, @11:33PM   
from the check-the-software-first dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

China has the world's most aggressive electric car goals. Communist leaders are promoting them to clean up smog-choked cities and in hopes of taking the lead in an emerging technology.

Regulators have jolted the industry with a proposal to require electrics to account for at least 8 percent of each brand's production by next year.

At the auto show, the global industry's biggest marketing event of the year, almost every global and Chinese auto brand is showing at least one electric concept vehicle, if not a market-ready model.

Heizmann said VW, which vies with GM for the title of China's top-selling automaker, expects annual sales of at least 400,000 "new energy vehicles" – the government's term for electric or gasoline-electric hybrids – by 2020 and 1.5 million by 2025.

The vast majority of Chinese get around by smog-free vehicles already. They're called bicycles.

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• Re:Wrong way... (Score: 3, Informative) by bob_super on Friday April 28 2017, @12:18AM

  by bob_super (1357) on Friday April 28 2017, @12:18AM (#500969)

  We wouldn't want to learn from L.A. losing its permanent smog. That's California Libtard politics.

  Maybe someone should point out to the D.C. crowd that under the "predominant winds" Chinese conspiracy, their families are breathing the sum of all the pollution emitted west of them.
  West of my kids is the Pacific, how about yours?

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