ICCT: Evaluation of China's leading cities in the development of new energy vehicles and excellent cases

Cities are at the forefront of China's new energy vehicle development, often playing an important role in the application of advanced vehicle and charging technologies, the development of new business models, and policy innovation. In China, new energy vehicles refer to pure electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. This article analyzes the market data of new energy passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles at the city level in China in 2015 and 2020, evaluates the leading cities in the development of new energy vehicles at different city levels and vehicle categories, analyzes the development characteristics of the market segments, and analyzes the factors behind their leading performance with examples.

Based on the different characteristics of the new energy passenger car and commercial vehicle markets, this article uses different criteria to determine the leading cities. The new energy passenger car market is large, so we screen leading cities based on the proportion of new energy passenger cars to all types of passenger car registrations that year. The new energy commercial vehicle market is still in its early stages of development, so we determine leading cities based on the annual sales of new energy commercial vehicles.

For the passenger car market, this article also analyzes the leading market of new energy vehicles at the city level, aiming to discover the leaders in the development of new energy passenger vehicles in large, medium and small cities, developed and underdeveloped cities. The city-level division refers to the classification of first-tier, new first-tier, second-tier, third-tier, fourth-tier and fifth-tier cities by mainstream financial websites in 2020. For the commercial vehicle market, this article evaluates and analyzes the leading market based on the commercial vehicle subdivision categories, including urban logistics distribution vehicles, dump trucks, tractors, urban buses and long-distance buses. Such market segmentation analysis can more accurately provide support for the electrification of commercial vehicles in different usage scenarios.