Harley Lover Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 Presuming they go through with the plan (no reason to think they won't), this creates a very big influence on manufacturer's plans. VW and GM are very reliant on the Chinese market, and of course Ford has built (and is building) a much larger production footprint there: China is joining France and Britain in announcing plans to end sales of gasoline and diesel cars. China’s industry ministry is developing a timetable to end production and sale of traditional fuel cars and will promote development of electric technology, state media on Sunday cited a Cabinet official as saying. The skeptic in me thinks that perhaps the Lincoln electrification announcement might have been influenced by this: Beijing has supported electric development with billions of dollars in research subsidies and incentives to buyers, but is switching to a quota system that will shift the financial burden to automakers.Under the proposed quotas, electric and hybrid gasoline-electric vehicles would have to make up 8 percent of each automaker’s output next year, 10 percent in 2019 and 12 percent in 2020. Automakers that fail to meet their target could buy credits from competitors that have a surplus. http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/mobility/2017/09/09/china-gasoline-car-ban/105462466/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harley Lover Posted September 10, 2017 Author Share Posted September 10, 2017 I think the other implication for Ford products (and Lincoln) is that if a product is sold in China, then we most likely will have an electrified version here - be it hybrid, PIH, or full electric. Presumably hybrid and PIH will be most common. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jpd80 Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 (edited) The Chinese used coal fired power plants to rapidly expand the nation's power grid. Be under no illusion that their plan is to move off coal in the next 20 years or so and replace coal with either gas or more likely Nuclear plants.The transition plan would be like that of France who went Nuclear and switched off all their old coal fired power plants and now claim to be clean and green... When the rest of the world measures greenhouse gas emission targets, reductions in CO2 of that magnitude would catapult China to pin up status... Edited September 13, 2017 by jpd80 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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