China's electric car production surges
China Daily | Updated: 2015-04-10 08:19
China's new-energy vehicle production jumped threefold to 25,400 vehicles year-on-year in the first quarter of 2015, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on Thursday.
The output of pure electric passenger cars rose 400 percent from a year earlier to 11,000 cars, with plug-in hybrid passenger cars rising nearly 500 percent to 7,257 in the first three months of this year.
The output of pure electric and plug-in hybrid commercial vehicles went up by 500 percent and 61 percent, respectively.
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