Taiwan, China poised to join hands for electric car

The cross-strait electric car conference, slated for Nov. 24-25 in Taipei, is expected to bring together leading automobile makers and vehicle designers from the two sides for an exchange of opinions and the showcasing of their respective R&D achievements.

The conference is one of the programs under the “Bridge-Building Project” devised by the MOEA's Department of Industrial Technology to bolster industrial exchanges and cooperation across the Taiwan Strait.

According to the ministry officials, Taiwanese electric car developers have already put their names on the world map, particularly for their development of on-board energy storage packs and electric motors.

The MOEA plans to help build 10 special zones for electric car development around Taiwan over the next three years, in the hope that by 2015, the country will have produced 45,000 electric cars, 15,000 of which will have been exported, the officials said.

Meanwhile, they said, China's economic authorities are pushing for a “1,000 electric cars in 10 cities” project, hoping to further power the development of clean, energy-saving vehicles.

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