China is now concentrating to boost its under developed electric vehicle industry. The country is now looking forward to make the industry more competitive in the global market.
The plans from the central government has called for producing 500,000 electrical and hybrid cars by the year 2015 with the output of both type of vehicles. The electric car market is expected to grow to 2 million units by 2020. With the implementation of the new plan, the average fuel consumption per vehicle is expected to go down to 6.9 litres of gasoline per 100 km by the year 2015. BY the year 2020 the average fuel consumption is expected to be 5 litres and for the energy saving cars it will be below 4.5 litres.