中文导读
随着全球环境恶化和能源问题的突出，燃油汽车已经成为世界各国关注的焦点，继英法等国之后，中国也于近日宣布将要禁售传统燃油汽车。这对于中国的电动汽车行业来说无疑是一个重要的发展机遇，在巨大的市场潜力和先进技术加持下，中国汽车产业能否弯道超车，我们拭目以待。
China puts its foot down on the road to electrification
“A DEFINING moment for the auto industry.” That is how usually restrained analysts at Sanford C. Bernstein, a research firm, described the news that China’s government wants to move towards a ban on gas guzzlers. On September 9th, Xin Guobin, vice minister of industry and information technology, told an automotive conference in Tianjin, a grimy industrial city near Beijing, that the government is developing a long-term plan to phase out vehicles powered by fossil fuels.
The news reverberated around car firms, for which China is the largest market. William Russo of China’s Gao Feng Advisory, a consultancy, who was previously a senior executive at Chrysler, says China is simply far too big to lose out on. “If China says no more fossil-fuel powered cars, global carmakers must follow.”
No timeline for a ban was suggested. China already has ambitious medium-term goals for automotive efficiency and climate change, including a cap on carbon emissions by 2030. Experts reckon this new ban might come into force around then. It is unclear whether the ban will include only pure-petrol cars or also plug-in hybrids that combine petrol engines with electric motors.
