China Makes Japanese Protectionism Policies Look Good With New Green Car Program

After months of waiting, Beijing announced a pilot scheme on Tuesday for five Chinese cities in its bid to promote green cars in the world's largest and fastest growing auto market.

The handouts favor electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids, a relatively undeveloped field with no clear champions, reflecting Beijing's resolve to foster domestic brands.

"It's clear the government want to push electric vehicles because this indeed is supposed to be the area where Chinese carmakers can compete very quickly," said Klaus Paur, director at industry consultancy TNS's North Asia automotive division.

"The Chinese car manufacturers are the main target for the subsidies and they should be the main beneficiaries."




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dlin - 6/3/2010 3:21:55 AM

0 Boost

? Your comment leaves me wondering....

1. China bought more US brands than Japan or Korea per capita. Therefore, the latter 2 are bad guys if you want to go that route.
2. Foxconn made iPhone so are you calling Apple crap?
3. Define 'adopt plug-ins'? Toyota Prius was lunched in Japan in 1997, and later in US in 2000. R U calling American monkeys?
4. Define 'global relevance'?

bfghemicuda - 6/3/2010 10:59:27 AM

+1 Boost

My Cuda is green [lime lite] and built in 1970. LOL

dlin - 6/5/2010 2:34:18 PM

+2 Boost

1. See the link:
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/18/gm-aims-to-double-sales-in-japan-by-2011/

2. Agreed.

3. Same thing US consumers buy German car, say, VW, isn't it?

4. Same can be said of Japan and nearly every other countries. Without exporting to US, even German cannot survive. Based on your logic only US matters - world is simply not that simple. China's social problem is not my business.