{"id":546453,"date":"2010-04-28T07:45:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T11:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3313"},"modified":"2010-04-28T07:45:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T11:45:20","slug":"chinese-electric-minivan-to-hit-u-s-market-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546453","title":{"rendered":"Chinese electric minivan to hit U.S. market this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/business\/6977025.html\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/photos\/2010\/04\/26\/21417170\/260xStory.jpg\" width=\"298\" align=\"right\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/Greenwire\/2010\/04\/27\/9\/\" >Greenwire<\/a>: Chinese automaker BYD is hoping to start selling its all-electric  minivan in America this year as the first Chinese-made car on the U.S.  market. The five-seat e6 would reach the West Coast later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese automakers are working on a series of green vehicles,  powered by everything from batteries to small wind turbines. At the  Beijing auto show this week, Chinese firms are working hard to show they  will not lag behind Western rivals in gas-free cars. The government  introduced a series of tax breaks and subsidies in March to promote  Chinese technology, but automakers are still waiting on details on how  it would affect them.<\/p>\n<p>If the e6 hits the market, BYD would be in the same league as  General Motors Co., which is releasing the Chevrolet Volt, and Tesla  Motors Inc., with its Roadster. Other Chinese producers have tried to  export their cars, but none has met American emission standards, and  analysts say the cars simply aren&#8217;t good enough to compete. The electric  car would clear those standards easily.<\/p>\n<p>Among the other firms hoping to capture the green market was  Dongfeng, which displayed its I-Car, an all-electric hatchback with  glowing hubcaps and touch-pad buttons. Geely debuted six alternative  energy vehicles to be released on the market next year (Chi-Chi Zhang, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/business\/6977025.html\" >AP\/<em>Houston  Chronicle<\/em><\/a>, April 26). <strong>&#8211; JP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3313&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3313\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwire: Chinese automaker BYD is hoping to start selling its all-electric minivan in America this year as the first Chinese-made car on the U.S. market. The five-seat e6 would reach the West Coast later this year. Chinese automakers are working on a series of green vehicles, powered by everything from batteries to small wind turbines. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}