TIANJIN, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- North China's Tianjin will add 60,000 new energy vehicles (NEVs) in 2018-2020 to strengthen environment protection, according to a pollution control plan released by the local government.
The number of the NEVs in Tianjin will increase and account for 4.5 percent of that of the total vehicles in 2020, said the plan.
Tianjin will speed up the promotion and application of the NEVs. It will make efforts to promote the use of the NEVs in fields including buses, logistics vehicles, taxis (ride-hailing vehicles), official cars for general use and rental vehicles.
Meanwhile, Tianjin will vigorously promote the construction of charging infrastructure. In the logistics parks, industrial parks, large-scale commercial shopping centers and other logistics distribution centers, it will build centralized charging piles and fast charging piles.
It will add 3,000 charging piles in 2018 and bring the number of the public charging piles in the city to 20,000 by 2020, according to the plan.
Since Tianjin was selected as one of the cities first promoting the use of NEVs in November 2013, it has promoted the use of nearly 90,000 NEVs and built more than 10,000 public charging piles. (Edited by Hu Pingchao, hupingchao@xinhua.org)
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