China wants to price fossil fuel-powered vehicles in favor of electric and hybrid vehicles, due to the pollution problems that the country suffers.
It seems that China is realizing that it cannot keep burning fossil fuels at this rate and that it has to do something to solve the problem of so much pollution. The Asian giant begins to see things in perspective and is considering making a massive introduction in the country of the electric vehicle and they do not intend to look at the long term, the idea of China would be the adoption of the electric vehicle practically overnight. The Asian giant is considering banning the sale and production of vehicles that use fossil fuels as early as next year.
China's Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology Xin Guobin, who participated on Sunday with industry officials in a forum on the future of the motor vehicle industry, commented that they would be working on a strategy to end with gasoline and diesel vehicles. Guobin also commented that they look to the near future and that the details would be ready soon and 2025 would be a key year for the sector. China has been the market where the most vehicles are sold for eight years, some 24 million vehicles sold each year.
Pollution in China is a serious problem and cities like [amazon_textlink asin = '1465440046 ′ text =' Beijing 'template =' ProductLink 'store =' hardwa028-21 ′ marketplace = 'ES' link_id = 'b0e085de-9871-11e7-ac51 -ed5318e9c630 ′] have a serious pollution problem that drastically affects the health of citizens. China also wants the country to be a leader in the technological world and that is why they have been developing and selling hybrid and electric vehicles for years, selling more than half a million units last year. Guobin himself proposed establishing sales quotas for electric and hybrid vehicles for this next 2018. The government would like 8% of total sales in 2018 to be electric and hybrid vehicles, 10% in 2019 and 12% in 2020 .
China also wants to ban fossil fuel vehicles, but the Asian giant's market is huge and could not reach a ban on these in 2030, as France and the United Kingdom will do, that is why they would mark 2040 to make them illegal. This is a clear wake-up call to vehicle manufacturers, who should think about stopping manufacturing vehicles powered by fossil fuels and betting on hybrids and electric vehicles, something that can greatly favor Tesla, BMW, Nissan or General Motors .
