China’s Electric Vehicle Production To Rocket Into The Millions By 2025

China has declared its intention to concentrate on all-electric and hybrid models over the next five years, along with ‘connected’ vehicles.

Speakers at the Global Automotive Forum revealed Chinese authorities have sent the word down to the country’s carmakers - and the orders are to ‘leapfrog’ the west with green and connected technologies.

China wants one million EVs on its roads by 2020; which might seem easy in a country with a population of 1.3 billion, but Autocar reports the country’s current EV and hybrid tally is a measly 83,000.

Following 2020, authorities want a further two million EVs to be built by 2025, with around 10 percent of those destined for export.

These targets are actually a backward step from China’s original plan, which called for five million EVs by 2020.

Much like the western markets that China is seeking to overtake, the hurdles for growing EV sales are seen as limited charging infrastructure, limited range from EV batteries and high purchase prices.

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