Green Vehicles

Letters to the Editor, February 24, 2013

24 Feb 2013

During my tenure as museum director, the Hong Kong Maritime Museum averaged 35,000 paying visitors a year. This compares favourably with the paid visits to government museums and, indeed, with...

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Government's plan for greener vehicles

15 Feb 2013

I refer to the letters relating to roadside air pollution by Nigel Lam ("HK$10b fund will not curb air pollution", February 4) and Don Pittis ("Taxis could switch to new hybrid models", February 4...

Green is good, as long as taxes are not in the red

9 Jan 2013

It's always interesting and sometimes surprising to see what drives policy in Hong Kong. Take the story in yesterdays' SCMP about car dealers asking the government for more time to clear their...

Electric cars: the BURNING QUESTION

4 Jul 2012

The drivers of Shenzhen's 300 electric taxis say they are finding passengers harder to come by following a deadly blaze in late May that was triggered by a rear-end collision.

Look what's just around the bend

29 Jun 2012

Zooming in on your own apartment is one of the joys of Google Street View. But the prodigious attempt to photograph where we live could be about to extend beyond mere novelty.

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HK may put brakes on electric taxis

The Hong Kong government is seeking to tighten the standard of electric vehicles imported into the city after an accident sparked a fire in a BYD electric car last month, killing three people in...

BYD dealers put brakes on electric car subsidies

Two of BYD's biggest dealers have stopped paying an advance subsidy of 120,000 yuan (HK$146,000) to buyers of the company's electric cars because they say it has become a burden on their liquidity...

Electric-car safety tests faulted

Experts have questioned whether the mainland's safety tests for electric cars were rigorous enough after an electric taxi burst into flames, killing three, when it was struck from the rear by a...

Media Muzzled over fatal electric taxi fire

Guangdong propaganda authorities have urged local media not to report anything critical about electric cars or BYD Auto after one its e6 taxis burst into flames in a Shenzhen crash, killing its...

Nissan wants in on Hong Kong's electric revolution

Nissan is hoping once again to become a major supplier of Hong Kong taxis: it aims to compete with mainland carmaker BYD to turn the city's 18,150 liquefied petroleum taxis into electrically-...

Three die as electric taxi explodes

A fatal road accident in Shenzhen at the weekend has raised concerns about the safety of electric cars developed on the mainland amid an ongoing central government push for them to be more widely...