Covid-19: China may ease electric car quotas, delay emission rules

Covid-19: China may ease electric car quotas, delay emission rules

The review is being discussed with officials at industry and environment ministries as well as automakers and industry bodies.. China is considering temporarily easing quotas designed to boost production of electric cars to help automakers badly bruised by the coronavirus pandemic to revive slumping sales, people familiar with the matter said.. Policymakers in the world's biggest auto market may also delay the implementation of a new emission particle restriction by six months to help the car industry, which has suffered a 79% drop in sales in February and expects a fall of around 10% in the first half of this year.. The United States had already planned to relax vehicle emissions rules.. Policymakers acknowledged that automakers are strained to promote electric models when overall demand is slowing.. They want the auto industry to recover steadily this year," one of the four people familiar with the matter said.. The policy shift comes as Xin Guobin, vice industry minister, said on Monday that China would "make adjustments on new energy vehicles and related policies to further promote the coordinated and healthy development of the automotive industry.". The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) did not immediately respond to a request for