According to the announcement by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in China, the Chinese government will start to supply a certain percentage to companies that produce and import automobiles in China from new years, such as electric cars and plug-in hybrid vehicles It is obligatory to make it an energy car.

Specifically, after making the number of production / imports of each company a point, we are making new energy vehicles 10% of the whole in the next year and 12% the following year. In addition to being a mechanism that increases the point of a car running a longer distance by one charge, the remaining points can be sold to manufacturers that have not reached the regulation, such as more advantageous to manufacturers that are advancing EV shift It is content.

The Chinese government, being forced to respond to serious air pollution problems, initially planned to introduce this regulation next year, but due to a request from the manufacturer, we postponed a year . The number of cars sold last year was 28 million, the world's largest car market China, the number of electric vehicles sold also exceeded 400,000 in the world and became the largest in the world, China's EV If the shift further progresses, manufacturers in each country including Nikkei will be forced to respond further.