Hong Kong's Environmental Protection Department announced the approval of 13 applications for funding support on the trial of green and innovative transport technologies under the Pilot Green Transport Fund. The government set up the HKD300 million Fund to encourage the public transport sector to test out green and low-carbon transport technologies. The Fund has been [...]

U.S.-based electric car firm Zap is working in Shanghai to develop eco-friendly transportation. Zap has reportedly begun project planning with the government of Shanghai's Yangpu District to develop a Green City Zone in Yangpu's downtown area. Based on a memorandum of understanding partnership agreement signed in San Francisco on November 19, 2010, the project plans [...]

Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation has announced that it will unveil its Roewe 750 hybrid car at the end of 2010. The 1.8L new energy car has a fuel-saving factor of around 20% and is scheduled to hit the market later this year. The Roewe 750 is powered by a lithium-ion battery. In addition, SAIC's Roewe [...]

Hu Maoyuan, the president of Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, has disclosed to local media that SAIC Group will invest CNY6 billion over the next two years for research and development on new energy vehicles.
At the China Clean Energy International Summit, Hu said that CNY2 billion of the CNY6 billion investment, will be used to set [...]

Xu Liankuan,the president of Chinese auto maker Zonda Group, has said that the company plans to expand their new-energy automobile base in Beijing.
According to Xu, Zonda Group will expand the existing Beijing Zonda Yanjing Automobile New Energy Automobile Base, which is based on Beijing Zonda Yanjing Automobile Auto Company.
Gou Zhongwen, the vice mayor of Beijing, [...]

Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation Group says it will invest more than CNY12 billion to develop new energy vehicles and actively progress the industrialization of the key components of new energy automobiles.
Li Jirong, the vice president of SAIC Group, has disclosed to the Chinese media that the company will adjust its product structure and mainly focus [...]

China's New Energy Automobile Manufacturers and Products Access Management Rule, which was published by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China on June 25 2009, was formally enacted on July 1, 2009.
The new rule covers new energy vehicle products at various levels of development as well as the corresponding management methods that MIIT [...]

Chongqing Energy Saving and New Energy Automobile Alliance, which local media reports is the second of its kind in China, has been formally unveiled in Chongqing.
Headed by Chana, a leading Chinese automobile maker, the alliance takes advantage of new energy resources in Chongqing and aims to become the largest new energy alliance in the middle [...]

Mazda Motor Corporation and the China Center for Business Cooperation and Coordination together held the 2008 Beijing Mazda Environmental Technology Forum in the Shangri-la Hotel, Beijing.

The Chinese Ministry of Finance and State Administration of Taxation has issued a notice that the automobile consumption tax will be adjusted from September 1, 2008.