This New Year is not as good for domestic automakers as the government's fuel efficiency standards for new energy vehicles have led to the suspension of 553 vehicles as of January 1. The affected companies include Beijing Benz, Chery, FAW-Volkswagen Wait.
It is still not clear what measures these car companies will take to restart the production line, but they are likely to need to re-develop and debug the energy consumption of the powertrain.
China has started to vigorously promote new energy vehicles (NEVs), mainly electric vehicles and electric powertrains, and in 2019 China will require that electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids account for 10% of new car sales.
In December 2017, government agencies indicated that they should raise their supervision over vehicle emission standards. And last year, the implementation period of tax incentives for the purchase of new energy vehicles was extended to 2020.
As a big country of automobiles, our country resolutely takes the road of replacing fuel vehicles with hybrid vehicles or full electric vehicles on the issue of automobile development in the future.
This is very different from the status quo in the United States, although the government's newly introduced tax policy retains the preferential policies for the purchase of new energy vehicles, but the government has taken a firm stand on traditional fuels.
This may be related to the environmental problems that the two countries are facing: the air pollution in our country should be more severe and the government therefore needs to adopt more radical means to promote new energy sources.