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 [...]

According to Wan Gang, China's minister of science and technology, China's output of electric cars will hit one million by 2020. The Ministry of Science and Technology says that by the end of 2010, 20,000 new energy cars will be used for public transportation and another 150,000 will be used in the labor market. A [...]

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 [...]

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.

Sixteen environmental organizations including Friends of Nature, Global Village of Beijing, China Environmental Protection Foundation, and Green Home in Beijing, have made a joint proposal to citizens and environmental volunteers for a car-free day on August 8, 2008, — the day on which the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics … Read More>>

About 500 environmental automobiles have been delivered to the Transport Department of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, and will be used during the Beijing Olympic Games and Paralympics.

The Cowry and Hover models built by Great Wall Motor Company Limited have passed certification by China Environmental Labelling, and obtained "China Environmental Labelling Product Certificate" awarded by the Ministry of Environmental Protection.