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The German minister rebuffs automakers in China background EV quotas.
Environment Minister Hendricks supports Chinese quota proposal.
German automotive industry sees the plan as unfair and unrealistic.
The German environment minister threw his support to aggressive Chinese plan to boost sales of electric and hybrid vehicles, in contradiction to its auto industry of the country and some within the German government.
China is considering legislation that would require automakers to sell a specific quota of low and zero-emission vehicles Sales start at 8 percent of total deliveries in 2018 and increase from there in successive years.
With this proposal, the Chinese investors show what they can expect, the German Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks said in an interview this week is exactly what economic actors need a clear direction of what's expected two.
His comments go against the opposition to the plan within the German automotive industry, which says these short-term goals are unrealistic and give an unfair advantage to Chinese producers German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel also expressed concern about the issue with Chinese industry Minister Miao Wei on a trip to the country this week.
The Ministry of Miao project, released in September, requires automakers that produce or import more than 50,000 vehicles a year to ensure at least 8 percent of sales are 2018 new energy vehicles, the proportion would rise to 10 percent in 2019 and 12 percent in 2020. Those who fail to reach the goal would either need to buy other automakers credits exceeding the target, pay penalties or reduce their production to meet the percentage of total German automakers say the proposal favors small, domestic producers.
The essential precondition for this is the neutrality of the market, Matthias Wissmann, president of the Association of German Automobile Manufacturers, said efforts to reduce vehicle emissions, we insist that China creates reliable competition rules and fair access to the market also for non-Chinese companies - as well as regulations do not discriminate.
With the new proposed quotas, China has already taken steps - including capping the number of new cars licensed in major cities, which limits the use of the days selected vehicles and heavy industrial relocation in remote areas - to reduce industrial emissions of smog urban areas met.
Hendricks, who caused waves earlier this year when she said Germany would work to sell only zero-emission vehicles by 2030, sees the latest measures taken by China in helping to accelerate the abandonment of cars with traditional combustion engines automakers have no choice but to follow the guidelines of the country because China is the world's largest auto market, with 21 1 million passenger cars sold in the country last year which compares to 3 2 million vehicles in Germany.
The achievement of new objectives would be very difficult BMW AG sold 1,796 plug-in hybrid electric city cars and i3 in China during the first nine months of the year - a tiny fraction of total 379176 delivered in the country during this time, China is Volkswagen AG's largest automaker market sold 2 85 million vehicles in China and Hong Kong in September - less than 1 000 of them being Electrics.
If the German car industry doesn t want to miss where the Chinese market is headed, it would serve the industry and expand its model offers as quickly as possible to match these criteria, Hendricks, a Social Democrat, said the proposal.
VW CEO Matthias Mueller said Tuesday at an event in Shanghai that the automaker will present 15 locally produced new energy vehicles in China in the next three to four years, the automaker plans to be on the market 30 new vehicles power in the world by 2025.
Gabriel, who heads the Social Democrats, told German media after meeting Miao he felt his counterpart in 2018 that the objectives are not achievable, Miao and assured him that any proposal would be put in work for fair all parties concerned.
I certainly have serious doubts about the drastic measures are correct, Olaf Lies - Minister of Economy of the State of origin of VW of Lower Saxony and a member of the automaker supervisory board - said Süddeutsche Zeitung regarding quotas.
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