New Energy Vehicle Subsidy Follow-up Policy May Be Issued in the First Half of the Year

During the two sessions, Ms. Miao Wei, Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology at the 2013 Auto Industry Conference and Conference held by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, said that at present the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the National Development and Reform Commission have done a series of work. Study new energy-saving and new energy subsidy policies and strive to introduce them in the first half of the year; the current subsidy idea is not based on the hybrid and pure electric technology route. Instead, the energy-saving vehicles will be divided into 16 levels according to the fuel-saving rate. Well, the more subsidies,

"Energy-saving vehicle subsidies will also be increased on the basis of the current 3,000 yuan. We must encourage the leader system and encourage the company's advanced products." Miao Wei said that in the past our country was mainly based on buses, but recently private purchases of new Energy vehicles are starting to take off, and the next step will be to step up efforts to start private purchases of new energy vehicles.

Statistics from the Ministry of Science and Technology show that currently 25 pilot cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen in China only demonstrate and promote 27,400 various types of energy-saving and new energy vehicles. Among them, there are 23,000 public services (including passenger cars, taxis, and some government vehicles), and 4,400 private sectors. At the end of March 2013, the financial subsidy will be cleared, and the scale of demonstration and promotion is expected to reach 39,700 vehicles.

A car company analyzed in an interview with this newspaper that the promotion of new energy vehicles is far from the expected goal, and thus the subsidy policy is necessary to continue. Previously, hybrid vehicles were included in energy-saving cars, and they only enjoyed a subsidy of 3,000 yuan. If the new subsidy for subsidy by fuel-saving rate is divided, the subsidy for hybrid technology may be expected to increase significantly.

Mixed technology has received strong support from Miao Tao, pointing out that the new energy automobile industry has grown from scratch and has begun to take shape. However, the gap between technology and international advanced level is still very large, especially key technologies such as batteries and electronic control. It needs to be solved through development.

“Developing new energy vehicles is a long-term and future plan. Energy-saving vehicles are the immediate concern. Now we can achieve the goal of energy conservation and emission reduction.” Miao Wei emphasized that in the development of energy-saving and new energy vehicles, we must continue to pay attention to traditional energy vehicles. Reduce emissions and encourage multiple development.

Miao Wei publicly stated that in order to comply with the current energy and environmental conditions, the energy saving and new energy vehicle subsidy continuation policy will make some necessary adjustments. For example, energy conservation will formulate subsidy quotas based on different fuel savings, and the fuel saving rate is divided into 16 grades. The greater the amount of subsidies for fuel-efficient vehicles, the more stringent the fuel-saving standards than the existing policies.

"This means that China's 'pure electric vehicles for the development of new energy vehicles and the transformation of the automotive industry's main strategic orientation' in order to realize the curve of overtaking the new energy vehicle technology route or will be adjusted." The car manufacturers to the newspaper said.

Since 2008, the country has vigorously promoted the new energy auto policy. At that time, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology led the development of pure electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles as the "two legs" of new energy vehicles.

However, the wind direction began to change after 2010. The new energy automobile industry development plan was jointly led by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the technology route was also readjusted to “the main strategy for pure electric vehicles as the development of new energy vehicles and the transformation of the automobile industry. "Oriented", overtaking the curve, strongly supporting the development of pure electric vehicles.

Correspondingly, the state gives a large amount of subsidy to pure electric vehicles, each with a maximum subsidy of up to 60,000 yuan. Some local governments subsidize another subsidy of 60,000 yuan per unit on the basis of state subsidies. At the same time, pure electric vehicles are reduced by 5%. The tax rate levies vehicle purchase tax.

However, in China, promotion of hybrid vehicles has been stagnant because of no policy encouragement. Hybrid technology is only classified as an energy-saving vehicle type, and consumers can only receive a subsidy of 3,000 yuan.

Miao Wei stressed that enough emphasis should be placed on energy-saving cars, especially hybrid power. He said that the average fuel consumption of passenger cars is reduced by 20%, which is equivalent to producing 20% ​​of zero-emission, zero-fuel consumption models, and contributes greatly to energy saving and emission reduction. On the existing basis, it is not difficult to reduce the fuel consumption by another 10%. Because the technology is mature, the investment will not be great, and the effect will be faster.

There are also industry analysts, the effect of hybrid energy-saving emission reduction in Japan, the United States and other places have been classified as new energy vehicles are encouraged to develop. According to the information disclosed by Miao Wei, the hybrid cars that have been left out before are expected to receive greater support.

Zhong Faping, deputy chairman of the National People's Congress, vice chairman of the China Battery Industry Association and director of the National Engineering Research Center for Advanced Energy Storage Materials, also submitted a proposal to support the hybrid vehicle industry with mature technology and industrialization conditions.

Zhong Faping’s criticism and suggestion pointed to the “misstep” of the new energy auto industry's New Deal: Since 2008, the relevant ministries have been vigorously supporting the pure electric vehicle industry and proposed to achieve the goal of 500,000 units of sales by 2015. Up to now, the investment has exceeded 10 billion yuan, but due to the bottleneck of technological immature and lack of industrialization support, sales have so far been only 27,400 units.

Contrary to this, the global sales volume of hybrid vehicles has exceeded 7 million units, and the technology and industrialization conditions have matured.

In the United States, which previously pushed pure electric vehicles, the US Department of Energy acknowledged that the target of deploying 1 million pure electric vehicles by 2015 could not be achieved, and officially abandoned the development plan for pure electric vehicles.

Dong Yang, Secretary General of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, also recently stated that China Automobile Association supports the promotion of hybrid power as a mainstream technology. At present, the association is communicating with related departments. “Either from energy saving or emission reduction, or from basic supporting conditions such as charging Hybrid technology should be promoted as soon as possible."

"The biggest change in the new policy is that it will no longer be differentiated according to the technical route. Instead, the subsidy will be based on the fuel saving rate. The more subsidy the technology will be, the more it will be for a car company with mature hybrid technology. Significantly positive," said the car maker.

New Deal for Beijing Pure Electric Vehicles: Private Buying and Shakeout In May 2010, the “Circular on Launching a Privately-purchased Subsidy for New Energy Vehicles” was issued, which stipulates that the pilot period for private purchases of new energy vehicles will be from 2010 to 2012. However, as of September last year, only 4 cities in 25 pilot cities completed more than 30%.

Although the follow-up policies of the four ministries have not yet been introduced, some local governments also stated that they will introduce policies to encourage and support private purchases of new energy vehicles this year.

On March 7, Chen Guiru, deputy director of the Beijing New Energy Automobile Development Promotion Center, revealed to reporters: "This year we will introduce a policy of encouraging and supporting private purchases of pure electric vehicles in Beijing."

At the same time, Shanghai also recently reported that it will provide free licenses for electric vehicles and subsidies.

Beijing is about to start the bidding for electric vehicle models and determine the list of short-listed models. The first batch of finalized models can be sold in the Beijing market, enjoying the financial subsidies for electric vehicles in Beijing, and not needing to shake the “Beijing” brand.

"In view of the current status of hard-to-find car licenses, the private car-free yams are very attractive to pure electric car consumers," said one auto industry analyst.

“In terms of private purchases, we plan to have 30,000 vehicles in three years. This year, the overall plan for pure electric vehicles is 5,000, including the demonstration of the group and the purchase of 2,000 private vehicles.” Chen Guiru stated publicly that Beijing’s electric car policy will not target a certain A certain model of a company will not formulate a policy with a protective color. It will treat all car companies in the country equally.