Carmakers lean on China to relax electric car rules
 

Electric cars too advanced for us right now

Global automakers have urged China to delay and soften planned quotas for sales of electric and hybrid cars.

They claim, despite the technology being available since 1832, moving to electric engines so quickly would be impossible and would severely disrupt their businesses.

The June 18 letter addressed to the head of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, is the most cohesive pushback yet from the industry against ambitious targets for so-called new energy vehicles in the world's biggest auto market.

China is planning to set goals for electric and plug-in hybrid cars to make up at least a fifth of Chinese auto sales by 2025, with a staggered system of quotas beginning in 2018.

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