China attaches great importance to purchase tax exemptions for new energy vehicles (NEVs) and asked related government departments to study the extension of NEV purchase tax waiver based on actual situations, said Tian Yulong, spokesperson and chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, at a news briefing on Tuesday.
At the moment, the ministry is speeding up relevant study for rollout of tax exemption policy as soon as possible, said Tian.
China produced and sold about 590,000 units and 596,000 units of NEVs in June, surging by 130% from a year earlier, said Tian.
In the first half of the year, China’s NEV output and sales reached 2.66 million units and 2.6 million units, respectively, surging by 120% from the same period last year, both hitting new record highs, with NEV penetration hitting 21.6%, said Tian.
China achieved some technological breakthroughs in the NEV field, including those in laser radar, home-made auto chips and vehicle basic computing platform, he said.
Breakthroughs have also been made in electric power batteries, with energy-density of mass-produced tertiary battery reaching 300 Wh/kg, the highest on record, he said.
China built 1.3 million units of new charging facilities in the first half of the year, surging by 3.8 times from a year earlier, including about 920,000 private charging piles and 380,000 public charging piles, according to Tian.