{"id":3937,"date":"2015-06-11T15:48:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T15:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azureblog.smallvehicleresource.com\/?p=3937"},"modified":"2015-06-11T15:48:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T15:48:27","slug":"sichuan-china-to-loosen-low-speed-electric-vehicle-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/11\/sichuan-china-to-loosen-low-speed-electric-vehicle-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sichuan China To Loosen Low-Speed Electric Vehicle Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports from Sichuan China point to the government loosening restrictions on low-speed electric vehicles. The new regulations are expected in August for the province. Lead acid battery manufacturers that supply the market expect it to grow 15% in 2015. In related news, Shandong province, a major producing area of low speed EVs in China reports production of the vehicles is up almost 70% to 69,200 vehicles in the first quarter. ??<a title=\"Sichuan China to Loosen Low-Speed Electric Vehicle Restrictions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metal.com\/newscontent\/73981_supportive-measure-for-low-speed-ev-in-sichuan-to-buoy-lead-acid-battery-demand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more: ??Metal.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comment:<\/strong>?? When it comes to low speed vehicles the market size in China far outpaces the US. However a direct comparison is hard to make because low speed vehicles in China have a much higher top speed, about 48 mph. A more basic difference though is that there is simply more market demand. With comparatively low vehicle penetration, there is a sizable demand for vehicles that are more affordable than highway capable vehicles but can still get you around town locally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports from Sichuan China point to the government loosening restrictions on low-speed electric vehicles. The new regulations are expected in August for the province. Lead acid battery manufacturers that supply the market expect it to grow 15% in 2015. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/11\/sichuan-china-to-loosen-low-speed-electric-vehicle-restrictions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,8,14,17],"tags":[257,1794,1937,1936],"class_list":["post-3937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batteries","category-electric-vehicles","category-globalization","category-market-trends","category-msv","tag-china","tag-low-speed-electric-vehicle","tag-shandong","tag-sichuan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3938,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions\/3938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}