The Energy Saving and New Energy Vehicle Industry Development Plan (2011-2020) is to be implemented early next year. The required standards for battery charging equipment should be working in the first half of 2011. This is vital if electric cars are going to forge ahead. Standardised battery charging is totally essential.
Chen Quanshi, director of the electric vehicle branch of SAE and head of the Automotive Research Institute of Tsinghua University, said that the plan means electric vehicles will play a key role in the strategic transformation of China’s auto industry in the next few years.
Gasgoo reported that Tang Xiaosen, manager of the strategic planning department of Nanjing Lvzhan technology, said, ‘It is an industrial consensus that China should develop electric vehicles, but the non-uniform standards of the battery charging equipment is a big obstacle for automakers.’ The new rulings will hopefully change that.
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