The Wall Street Journal | By: Yoko Kubota in Beijing & Trefor Moss | September 28, 2017:
Auto makers will have to start manufacturing electric vehicles by 2019, after deadline was pushed back by one year.
China will force auto makers to accelerate production of electric vehicles by 2019, a move that will ripple around the globe as the industry bends to the will of the world’s largest car market.
The move is the latest signal that officials across the globe are determined to phase out traditional internal combustion engines that use gasoline and diesel fuels in favor of environmentally friendly vehicles powered by batteries, despite consumer reservations.
The U.K. and France are aiming to end sales of gasoline and diesel vehicles by 2040. India has a goal to sell only electric vehicles by 2030.
In the U.S., the head of California’s Air Resources Board recently suggested the state could move to eventually replace vehicles running on combustion engines in the nation’s largest auto market with electric cars or those running on other renewable energy. The state has long been a front-runner in setting ambitious future targets for auto makers including sale of zero-emission vehicles.
China’s long-awaited plan, announced Thursday, calls for gradually escalating quotas for pure-electric cars, plug-in hybrids and fuel-cell cars, as Beijing seeks to curb air pollution and nurture a domestic green-car industry.
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