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Yan Yupeng was stunned by the sight when he recently went to Liuzhou, a city in southern China, the German Business Daily reported on October 8. As far as you can see, there are cars with a slight buzz. There's a model that's particularly common here: a car made by SAIC GM Wuling, a Chinese carmaker. The reason is that the car is surprisingly cheap. After obtaining the national and local price, the price of the guide price of about $15000 is only $5600 in Liuzhou. However, it's not just the price that attracts customers, but also the privileges that electric vehicles enjoy in Liuzhou - such as free parking and bus lane access. For a car owner like Yan Yupeng, this is the perfect condition. He bought a car for his wife to pick up the children. Yan Yupeng said: "enough electricity can drive 230 kilometers at a time." And he can charge almost anywhere. Liuzhou is not alone, it is just one of numerous experiments by the central government to turn China into an electric car power, and China has also contributed to tackling global climate change, the report said. This also brings about the joint effect of coping with climate change: as the world's second largest economy with rapid economic growth relies on electric vehicles and provides corresponding regulatory framework, Daimler, or other Western automobile manufacturers have to follow this trend. The international clean Transportation Commission estimates that by 2035, the carbon dioxide emission reduction effect brought by the promotion of electric vehicles in China will reach a total of 1.25 billion tons; by 2050, it will even reach 15 billion tons. At that time, China's carbon dioxide emissions will return to 2010 levels. In 2018, China's new energy vehicle sales reached 1.256 million. In Europe, electric vehicle sales in 2018 were only 386000. The International Committee on clean transport firmly believes that national guidance is necessary for the transition to electric vehicles. "Subsidies help consumers accept the new technology more quickly," said he Hui, head of the Commission's China program He Hui said that in terms of stimulating sales, additional measures and city specific measures are often more innovative, which are far more effective than price incentives. In Shenzhen, the southern city of China, the entire public transport system and more than half of taxis have been electrified within four years. Foreign manufacturers are also adapting quickly. When planning Foshan production base in 2011, Volkswagen may not have thought about developing in the field of new energy. Until the end of 2017, the company decided to produce electric vehicles in Foshan. Since then, VW has jumped on the Chinese electric train entirely: in April, Herbert dease, the chief executive of the Volkswagen Group, announced that by 2028, more than half of VW's production will be in China.