Electric-car winds in China shift again: goals to be cut after sales fall?

BYD Yuan. Photo by Indian Autos Blog.

Eight weeks ago, China seemed to be preparing to loosen its famously strict car-manufacturing rules for foreign makers. The government leaders who direct economic policy had seemingly concluded that Chinese makers could not succeed in selling cars in Europe and North America. So the country proposed to relax joint-venture rules for so-called New… …read more