Hybrid Auto Needs to Further Development
2008-08-21 Source：english.chinabuses.com
Clean energy is the focus of the auto industry this year. It better be because the government is now determined to save energy and control the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The clean energy wind began blowing across China's auto industry. Almost all global auto giants are bringing their energy-efficient technologies and vehicles to China, and domestic automakers, too, have realized the importance of clean energy research and development (R&D).
Clean energy has become a pre-requisite and must-do for all automakers. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) issued the Guiding Catalogue of Industrial Structure Regulation to encourage new energy automobile R&D. Beijing implements China IV emission standards. The Beijing Olympic Games and Shanghai 2010 World Expo can further boost China's green drive, with promises of encouraging low or even zero emission vehicles. All this has made hybrid autos a lucrative prospect. Another reason automakers are looking at hybrid cars is oil.
China's auto industry has yet to find the right direction and develop an efficient way to cut GHG emissions because R&D into clean energy has been diversified into many channels, from hybrid, electric vehicles to substitute energy of hydrogen, ethanol, ether and bio-fuel. Most analysts generally consider hydrogen-powered vehicles to be the best way to achieve zero emission and high-energy efficiency. But they concede that the exorbitant R&D cost, difficulty in building facilities and getting enough and uninterrupted supply of hydrogen make manufacturing such vehicles almost impossible in the near future.
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