China Economic ReviewSiemens has launched an Inside Electric Cars division that aims to provide an entire range of technologies for electric car designers and manufacturers. The goal of the new unit is to be one of the world’s principal providers of key components for automobiles and light commercial vehicles powered only by electricity. It will initially focus […]
French carmaker Peugeot will probably sell more vehicles on the mainland than in its home market of France by 2015, the Wall Street Journal reported. According to Timothy Zimmerman, a Peugeot China executive, the carmaker plans to sell 500,000 units on the mainland within four years, compared with annual sales of 400,000 in France. Zimmerman […]
Vanadium is a low-cost alternative to cobalt in batteries. And it has higher energy storage potential. Thus, lithium/vanadium batteries may be the wave of the future in hybrid and electric automobiles as well as many other devices. Jon Hykaway, Byron Capital Markets analyst, said, "The charge-discharge rate for [lithium/manganese-oxide] is 10C (where C stands for […]
China’s northeastern Jilin province will aim to have a new-energy vehicle production capacity of 100,000 units a year by 2015, with fully electric vehicles making up over half of that amount. Jilin will soon issue a policy to subsidize research and development and the construction of infrastructure related to new-energy vehicles. This may coincide with […]
More new automobiles will be sold in China this year than have ever been sold in any nation ever in a calendar year. The largest car buying nation on earth New-car sales in China will jump about 30% to 18 million units this year. These sales have not just been in the cities but also […]