Xinhua News Agency, Haikou, December 8 (Reporter Wen Jinghua, Ye Haoming) Vice Minister of Transport Wang Gang said on the 8th that the scale of China's new energy operating vehicles has reached 1.64 million, including about 540,000 new energy buses, about 300,000 new energy taxis, and about 800,000 new energy urban distribution vehicles.
Wang Gang made this statement at the 2023 World New Energy Vehicle Conference held on the same day. He said that China has focused on strengthening the supply of new energy vehicle charging facilities, and at present, the country has built 6,257 service areas for charging parking spaces, accounting for 94% of the total number of highway service areas, and the national highway service area has built a total of 20,000 charging piles, which can provide 490,000 charging spaces. "Beijing, Liaoning, Jilin, Shanghai, Zhejiang and other 11 provinces highway service area charging facilities coverage rate reached 100%, further to meet the people's convenient and reliable travel needs. ”
It is understood that the Ministry of Transport has accelerated the improvement of the intelligent transportation infrastructure system, organized and carried out key core technology research on autonomous driving, and organized and implemented 14 pilot projects for the pilot application of intelligent transportation in Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Zhengzhou and other places around typical scenarios such as urban travel, logistics and distribution, and port operations, so as to create a large-scale application plan for autonomous vehicles.
When it comes to future development, Wang Gang said that he will study and formulate relevant industrial support policies to accelerate the promotion and application of new energy vehicles in the field of transportationSupport enterprises as the main body, strengthen the research and development of key common technologies and products, and accelerate the improvement of technical standards and specificationsAccelerate the improvement of the intelligent transportation infrastructure system, and strengthen the driving role of typical transportation scenarios and application demandRelying on the pilot project of building a transportation power and the creation of a national public transport city, we will supervise and increase the promotion and application of new energy vehicles.