China might be taking another step forward in reducing their carbon footprint by making it compulsory for all vehicles in China to have the “BSG hybrid” system. BSG stands for “Belt Driven Starter Generator” and it works like a start-stop system where the engine shuts off when the car is idle. Start-stop is now common in most European new cars and is supposed to be part of “mild hybrid” measures along with things like brake energy regeneration.
This comes after the GM of Chery New Energy Company, Yuan Tao, revealed that relevant authorities are currently working on the new policy. An unnamed insider from another Chinese manufacturer, Dongfeng, confirmed the above statement and added that it would be implemented in 2012. Dongfeng already sells a BSG version of its S30 sedan (pictured).
BSG is a simple system and according to Dongfeng, it will only cost 1,000 yuan ($147.50) per car if mass produced. On average, fuel efficiency is boosted by 5%. It may not sound like much, but when you consider the fact that China used 540 million tons of gasoline and 520 million tons of diesel in 2008, this system could see annual fuel consumption decrease by 5 million tons!
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China is serious about reducing their reliance on oil, whereas americans are addicted to oil. From what I read, China is building many more nuclear power plant, wind farm, and many more.
slowly but surely.
Read a recent writeup – China actually has one of the biggest wind farms in the world in Xinjiang that’s capable of supplying power to 800,000 homes a year. And they’re expanding it.
Richard Nixon, Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Regan, Bush senior, Bill Clinton, Bush Junior, Barack Obama, all promised to make US independent from oil imports. China shows now the superiority of their political system.
do we have a plan? or we struggle with domestic politic?
Our plan is making biodiesel 5%, put them on TV and newspaper, and then forget about it, coz the hot topic now is
Our other plan to curb our carbon lust is attempting to convince people that oil palm/rubber estates are actually “forest”. Classifying fossil coal as renewable energy in our “Renewable Energy Corridor” in Sarawak.
So, rather then actual thing like wind farm, solar power, we are working more on paperwork.
I am not even talking about public transport…
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Very good action taken by China to save the earth by reducing the carbon emission.
American,Japanese, European & Asian car manufacturers should follow the step from China.
With 1.4 billion people in china. They SHOULD implement it anyway.
Regardless of population, remember China’s not even developed country status yet. Where are those so-called big developed boys and what are they doing?
Those seriously implementing green policies, as far as I know, are Scandinavia (Denmark is totally not reliant on Mideast oil for energy) and S. Korea.
China can suceed if the really want to as they has a lot of important mineral that use in hybrid, say lithium(LiPo Batt, newest tech and much better), nickel(NiMH Batt most used in Laptop and HP and even in current Prius) and even the rarest neodymium(electric motor)…. not forgetting many un explored land that might has a vast reserved of these mineral and maybe even oil… China has out a sanction for neodymium export… ( http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2248745/china-eyes-ban-rare-earth-metal )
in few years time BYD isn’t a dream anymore…
back to bolehland, in future, will see more lakes due to sand mining, will see lesser hill and mountains due to rock mining, will see lesser forrest due to logging and so on….
And you wonder why our automotive industry is lagging behind everybody else? In time to come, we will be nothing because lack of political willpower…
Willpower to push is to the forefront… *sigh*
I like to think that the byd would get a huge success on their EV product which supported by the ion lithium tech…it gonna shake the world within 20 years frame..it’s well deserved as a reasoanable prediction according to the trend nowadays..