China considers postponing green-car sales quotas
The Chinese government is likely to delay the introduction of a sales quota on environmentally friendly cars until 2019, a year later than initially outlined, according an anonymous source cited by Nikkei Asian Review. In September, Beijing announced it would require 8% of car makers' sales in China to be comprised of new energy vehicles. However, postponing the quota would enable carmakers to scale their offering of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids to China's car market, one Chinese auto industry official said. China's government is seeking to accelerate sales of environmentally friendly cars from 500,000 last year to 7 million by 2025.
BEIJING -- China appears likely to delay the introduction of a sales quota on environmentally friendly autos by roughly one year from the initial target of 2018, after many automakers said they could not develop the vehicles in time.

Beijing released a plan in September for boosting sales of so-called new-energy automobiles, such as electric, plug-in hybrid and fuel-cell vehicles. The government has been promoting green-car sales with subsidies, but aims to phase out that system by around 2020. The new plan requires such vehicles to contribute a certain proportion of an automaker's sales in China.