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EIA: China promoting both fuel efficiency and alternative-fuel vehicles to curb growing oil use

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2014

Consumption of gasoline in China grew from 0.9 million barrels per day (bbl/d) in 2003 to more than 2 million bbl/d in 2013, according to figures from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Increasing oil demand is requiring increasing imports; since 2009, China has been importing more than half of its petroleum needs.

Alternative Fuels

Alternative Fuels Oil China Fuel

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. Company says its focusing on gasoline and hydrogen. todays answer is "Yes -- but not yet."

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV

EV Driven

EIA: China promoting both fuel efficiency and alternative-fuel vehicles to curb growing oil use

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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