BAIC to introduce its first electric vehicle in September

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BAIC to introduce its first electric vehicle in SeptemberOver in China, state-owned carmaker Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co is set to begin sales of its first electric car in Beijing from September, according to reports.

The vehicle is a compact sedan which will offer a 100 km travel range and a 130 kph maximum speed. No further details were available about the EV, which is codenamed C30DB, though the pricing was indicated – the sedan will be priced at 300,000 yuan, which is around RM140k, though government subsidies in effect means that buyers will need to pay only 180,000 yuan (RM83,500), the reports add.

Earlier this year, the Beijing city government started restricting new car sales in the Chinese capital to 20,000 units per month in a bid to ease the traffic congestion in the city. Electric vehicles, however, are exempted from this restriction, so it looks like the upcoming BAIC EV will provide more than just the ‘going green’ alternative as far as options go.

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Anthony Lim believes that nothing is better than a good smoke and a car with character, with good handling aspects being top of the prize heap. Having spent more than a decade and a half with an English tabloid daily never being able to grasp the meaning of brevity or being succinct, he wags his tail furiously at the idea of waffling - in greater detail - about cars and all their intrinsic peculiarities here.

 

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  • vincent on Jun 07, 2011 at 7:19 pm

    yes. well done. if malaysian do EV car too, we can SAVE more money for petrol…………..

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    • tiadaid on Jun 08, 2011 at 6:23 am

      Malaysia already HAVE an electic car prototype working and easily converted into production.

      Question is, will Malaysians buy it? I sincerely doubt it.

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    • CC on Jun 08, 2011 at 12:30 pm

      slow slow wait..

      according to the lotus, their focus is to make own engine with 4.5-litre V8 by benchmarking Ferrari 458, and the first prototype V8 will fire up next month..

      now the trend from big cc engine -> diesel engine -> small cc engine with turbo ->hybrid -> EV . But lotus still go for big cc engine

      good luck to them whether there is a good move or bad move, just let us wait and c..

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      • .... on Jun 08, 2011 at 2:25 pm

        its for their sportscar….who would want to buy a diesel powered sportscar?

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  • umpgambang on Jun 07, 2011 at 9:00 pm

    wow. got that limit.. the less wanted electric car also can sell easily dy.. Proton should hurry and find a way to introduce Proton Emas/Lotus CityCar! sure can conquer market easily.

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  • azman shah on Jun 08, 2011 at 11:15 am

    Proton Emas plans to use a 1litre engine
    (Nissan hopefully and not Campro again)
    and will not be an EV.
    Proton may hv the headstart by until today
    they are silent as to the progress in their EV plans.
    Poor PR on part of Proton.
    No news=Good news doesn’t work here!

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