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In spite of pollution, hybrids struggle to gain a foothold in China

While new car sales have stagnated or shrunk in most of the established markets in recent years, one of the big exceptions has been China. Sales there spiked 22 percent, up to 8.8 million last year and might go over 10 million units in 2008. Of course that has also contributed to the choking air pollution in cities like Beijing and Shanghai. Nonetheless Chinese car buyers have yet to migrate toward hybrid vehicles. Apparently the emissions benefits are insufficient incentive to overcome the huge price premium. To date most of the hybrids ... Read more →

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In spite of pollution, hybrids struggle to gain a foothold in China

In spite of pollution, hybrids struggle to gain a foothold in China 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

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