{"id":1161,"date":"2011-04-12T09:12:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T09:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2011-04-12T09:12:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T09:12:49","slug":"beijing-car-registrations-could-be-top-for-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/12\/beijing-car-registrations-could-be-top-for-electric\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Car Registrations Could Be Top For Electric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>Overcrowding is a huge problem in Beijing, to the point where new car  registration comes down to a lottery system\u2026unless you purchase a  plug-in or electric vehicle. Is Beijing poised to become the electric  car capital of the world?<\/p>\n<p>Bertel Schmitt writing for\u00a0The Truth About Cars certainly seems to think so, and not without good reason. Beijing has  been registering, on average, 2,000 new cars a day, or over 700,000 cars  every year for the past few years. Attempts to curb congestion (like the 10 day traffic jam) have led to some interesting edicts,  like having to leave your car at home every other day depending on the  last digit of your license plate. Cars registered outside of the \u201c5<sup>th<\/sup> Ring\u201d of the city are not allowed within the city limits on certain  days and curtailing new car registrations via a lottery system. These  restrictions have destroyed the car market in the city, with 9 out of 10  people winning the license plate lottery not even bothering to buy a  car. It ain\u2019t easy being a car owner in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>But it could get a whole lot easier if you buy a new electric  vehicle. Beijing officials announced last week that plug-in or electric  car buyers will not have to enter the lottery to receive registration  plates for their cars. Nor will they be restricted from entering the  city during rush hour. On top of all that, their car taxes will be paid  for by the government, and there are generous tax incentives that could  pay upwards of half the cost of a new plug-in or electric car. The  problem? Well, the Chinese can\u2019t really buy any electric cars right now\u00a0<em>because there aren\u2019t many available. <\/em>BYD is the only Chinese carmaker that you could theoretically buy an EV from\u2026but they\u2019re not commercially available. Whoops?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overcrowding is a huge problem in Beijing, to the point where new car registration comes down to a lottery system\u2026unless you purchase a plug-in or electric vehicle. Is Beijing poised to become the electric car capital of the world? Bertel<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/12\/beijing-car-registrations-could-be-top-for-electric\/\" role=\"button\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news","category-world-number-plate-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}