Plug-in passenger car sales amounted to 468,000 BEVs and 111,000 PHEVs – 579,000 total. The rest were commercial vehicles.
The overtime piece, currently at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhpQ6TEGpZ8 talked about Nio's (owner only) "club houses". Interesting... seems like Tesla's partway there w/that.In Shanghai, China has built the largest EV database in the world.
Holly Williams: This is a map of all the electric cars in Shanghai?
Ding Xiaohua: Yeah.
Ding Xiaohua is deputy manager of the Shanghai Electric Vehicle Data Center, which collects millions of bits of information every day on nearly 200,000 electric cars on this city's streets.
Holly Williams: So let's find a Tesla.
Ding Xiaohua: So this is only Tesla brands.
Holly Williams: These are all Teslas?
Ding Xiaohua: Yeah. All Teslas.
Inside every electric vehicle in the city is a black box, automatically transmitting data to the center every 30 seconds.
Ding Xiaohua: For example, the speeds, the mileage, the battery temperature.
Holly Williams: And does that help the government plan for the future?
Ding Xiaohua: Yes, public charging points, how many public charging points? And where it is best place for the public charger.
There is nothing like this in the U.S. or anywhere else. China is paving the way for the electric cars of the 21st century.
Unclear if they really are "fast" chargers, say over 20 kW. In China, they use GB/T standards for AC and DC charging. From what I've seen, their DC ports look similar to CHAdeMO but isn't. Their AC inlet resembles Mennekes Type 2 but w/the wrong gender.An electric taxi charging station in China’s hi-tech city of Shenzhen has reportedly become the largest EV charging station in the world, as a second phase of construction adding 172 fast chargers to total 637 fast chargers was completed this week.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A micro electric vehicle (EV) by General Motors’ (GM.N) local Chinese joint venture becomes the most sold EV model in China, with 15,000 cars sold in China last month, followed by Tesla Inc’s (TSLA.O) 11,800 Model 3 sedans, industry data showed.
The model, the Hongguang MINI EV, is a two-door micro electric vehicle launched by the joint venture between GM, SAIC Motor Corp (600104.SS) and another partner, SGMW, in July.
The starting price for the Hongguang MINI EV is 28,800 yuan ($4,200), less than 10% of the 291,800 yuan starting price for Tesla’s China-made Model 3 vehicles before they get government subsidies.
The plug-in hybrid CR-V is the first Honda PHEV for the Chinese market, which doesn’t receive the Clarity sold in other markets. It’ll be exclusive to the Chinese market.
It’ll go on sale there in January 2021 and promises the “most EV-like feel” from its plug-in hybrid system, which is based on Honda’s current Sport Hybrid i-MMD system used in the CR-V and Accord.
BEIJING — Demand for luxury electric sedans is on the rise in China.
In just over two months, orders for the “Han” line of electric cars from BYD — a Chinese automaker backed by billionaire Warren Buffett — have topped 40,000, the company disclosed at the Beijing auto show this past weekend.
The luxury sedan was announced on July 12 and will initially be sold in China. The vehicle maker said 4,000 vehicles were delivered in August.