VW takes the right leadership in the electrical mobility
The VW group has announced in a recent press release that it set itself the ambitious target is the market leader in the field of cars to be electrically driven and the leader position in 2018 is already taking. So will be the largest European car manufacturer, up to at least eight years to play in the new section of electric cars, the market leader and deliver innovative vehicles.
As initial steps to plan for next year a fleet test of 500 electric-powered VW Golf. Just one year later, in 2012, Volkswagen released in the U.S. a hybrid version of the popular VW Jetta there and dares to get started in the electrical industry in the important U.S. market. Later, as a pure electric vehicles and the small car Up! and follow the Jetta and Golf, and clear the way for the electrical mobility for small and compact cars.
Group Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn was already known at the annual press conference of the Volkswagen Group, that plans to continue to strengthen our own brands and to publish innovative vehicles. So be it, according to statements by Winterkorn extremely important to ensure progress and affordable electric vehicles. As forecasts Winterkorn presented, inter alia, the small batch production of electric sports car, Audi e-tron end of 2011 outlook and also pointed to the hybrid version of the Seat Leon in 2014.
Fuel cell buses make 60 million each
Following the recently made it clear in Beijing, Jinan and other cities in 13 energy-saving and new energy vehicle demonstration and extension of experimental work, the Ministry of Finance recently issued a document to further confirm the central government on the purchase of energy-saving and new energy vehicles will provide subsidies to the object and standards, including car allowance the highest standards for the fuel cell bus, the promotion of each vehicle will receive 60 million subsidy.
News from the Provincial Department of Finance Economic Planning and Development Department that the state "energy saving and new energy vehicle demonstration and extension of financial subsidies for Interim Measures" has been issued. Saving and new energy vehicles mainly refers to hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles. Early in the demonstration and extension, the main choice of the city's public transportation, rental, service, sanitation and other public services and postal pilot. The central government on public services related to the pilot demonstration cities to promote units to buy and use energy-saving and new energy vehicles off fixed grants. Local governments to certain funds, to purchase energy-saving and new energy vehicles, facilities construction and maintenance of appropriate subsidies and other related expenses.
Subsidies based primarily on energy-saving and new energy vehicles based on conventional cars of similar differences, with due consideration of scale, technological progress and other factors identified. One public service passenger cars and light commercial vehicles with a demonstration and extension of the specific grant criteria: fuel-efficient hybrid vehicle based on electrical power rates and the maximum ratio, vehicle subsidies from 0.4 million to 5 million range; pure electric vehicles per grant 6 million vehicles; fuel cell vehicle 25 million per grant.
Meter above the city bus demonstration and extension of subsidy standard is: hybrid car battery under the fuel rate and the use of different vehicle subsidy from the standard 5 million to 42 million range; pure electric vehicles 50 million grant; Fuel cell vehicles 60 million per grant. In addition, special vehicles subsidies determined with reference to the subsidy standards.
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