Case study – China’s regulatory impact on electric mobility development and the effects on power generation and the distribution grid

Abstract

Since the introduction of “New Energy Vehicles” (NEV) via the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) as a new vehicle type in 2009, several domestic car manufacturers started to offer products in that category (MIIT, 20091). Supported by restriction and subsidy policies, the sales of NEV started to increase rapidly, topping in 200,000 passenger NEV wholesale in 2015 (www.caam.com.cn, 2016). Electric Vehicles (EV) are set as key developing type of NEV in China, thus it is the focus of this paper.