Electric cars have threatened oil refineries and have administrative support

According to Reuters, Chinese state-owned PetroChina will close its largest home oil refinery in Dalian by mid next year. This will be the first closure as part of a larger plan to optimise home production and alleged "transformation process".

The increasing electrification of the Chinese transport fleet poses a real threat to the oil refineries in China. According to Rho Motion investigation company, in August this year the mediate State became the first country in the planet to sale over 1 million electrical vehicles (EV) in 1 month.

This reduces oil request for home consumption, while unstable prices on global markets, and in peculiar the fresh reductions in natural material prices, importantly reduce refinery margins.

Meanwhile, National Administration of Government Offices (国家机关事务管理局) issued advice No. 197 on 28 October this year entitled ‘Notice of the performance of good work in promoting the usage of fresh energy vehicles in central and state authorities’ (关于做好中央和国家机关新能源汽车推广使用工作的通知).

The main message of this paper is to support the improvement of the fresh energy vehicle manufacture (NEV) and to call for effective function to be played by public administrations in this process. The paper recommends that institutions at all levels of administration, from central to local, together with their subordinate bodies and agencies take the initiative to usage NEV vehicles produced in the country.

All these authorities and entities, gradually renewing their transport fleet (which concerns both service vehicles, ‘and another vehicles utilized to carry out their tasks’), should first of all buy electrical vehicles so that in the first phase they represent at least 30% of the full purchases of fresh cars. This proportion should then be gradually increased to scope 100%.

Electric service cars are to be equipped standard (without peculiar accessories) and their price cannot be higher than 180.000 RMB (approx. 101.245 PLN).

Electric or hybrid cars are to be the first choice in the case of leasing or long-term rental of a vehicle.

All administrations, departments and subordinates should besides support the improvement of charging infrastructure in the office and encourage the construction of centralised charging infrastructure in public places.

Finally, the recommendations highlighted that these objectives are to advance the usage of NEV vehicles in society.

The provisions of the document, of course, are in line with the organization and government programme for the green energy transition and the simplification of carbon dioxide emissions. Should Chinese producers of electricians be afraid about the duties imposed by the European Union and the United States on the cars exported to these regions?

Based on:

• mbd.baidu.com;
• ggj.gov.cn;

Andrzej Liang, Leszek B. Slazyk

Email: [email protected]

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