In my reports to the Beijing mayor (at that time, Guo Jinlong) and vice mayor I urged the Beijing government to allow e-cars to drive every day in Beijing, unlike other cars that are taken off the roads one day in the week.
See: Exclusive Dialogue with Vice Mayor of Beijing Ms. Cheng Hong,
https://blog.strategy4china.com/?p=5343
Well, finally they did it and as for now the e-cars face no more restrictions as from 11 April 2015 till 10 April 2016. Hopefully they will extend that as in my opinion this could be a major factor to convince people to buy an e-car. Other incentives are that it is practically easy to get a license plate, while for normal cars the lottery is pretty hard to get one. Obviously there is still a lot to do to increase the amount of charging stations.
Indeed, the government goals for e-cars are 500,000 new energy vehicles on the road by the end of 2015 and 5 million by 2020, but sales in 2014 were well below the target: 74,800 all-electric and plug-in hybrids.
It will be interesting to see the impact on sales later this year.
Read the full story here:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/motoring/2015-04/13/content_20420375.htm