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Short Torque Electric charging piles top FAW­Toyota to launch ed to the “dieselgate” emissions new Corolla in August cheating scandal, prompted the company to set aside more cash Sino­Japanese joint venture FAW­ and increase estimated costs for Toyota is to launch the 12th­gen­ the year, Daimler said in a state­ 1 million across the country eration Corolla in August. It is ment. built on the Toyota New Global Architecture platform, which is Infrastructure shared by high­end models Joint venture to focus including the Camry and Avalon. on EV technology keeping pace with The model has new styling, which FAW Group, JAC Motors and Star fast­growing segment makes it sportier and more Charge, a China­based EV charg­ appealing to younger customers. ing infrastructure manufacturer, The body is extended by 15 mm in and Volkswagen China By ZHANG DANDAN length, standing at 4,635 mm announced a new joint venture [email protected] long, 1,780 mm wide and 1,435 named CAMS New Energy Tech­ mm tall. It has an improved inte­ nology that focuses on EV charg­ China has more than 1 million rior, including an air purifier and ing on Thursday. It has a electric charging piles nationwide heated seats. The car also boasts a registered capital of 812 million according to the latest figures head­up display, adaptable cruise yuan ($118.18 million). Volkswag­ released by a top industry body, control, lane departure warning en China, FAW Group, Star demonstrating that electric vehi­ and pre­collision warning. The Charge holds 30 percent each and cle infrastructure is growing at a model will be available in gasoline JAC Motors holds 10 percent of pace in line with the vibrant new and hybrid versions, said the car­ the new joint venture. The CAMS energy vehicle market. maker. will cover the R&D, design, man­ The China Electric Vehicle ufacturing and sale of EV wallbox Charging Infrastructure Promo­ VW, Ford unveil chargers, charging poles and the tion Alliance reported that by the global alliance details installation, maintenance and end of June 2019, there were operation of charging poles. The 410,000 public charging piles and Volkswagen and Ford plan new joint venture will focus on 590,000 private ones operating unveiled a broader global alliance technical fields, such as an auton­ across the country. on Friday that will focus on devel­ omous charging and wireless According to the alliance, China oping autonomous technology charging. added 140,000 new public charg­ and electric vehicles. Ford chief ing piles in the past year, with an executive James Hackett and FCA bets big on average growth rate of 11,700 new Volkswagen chief executive Her­ piles per month. bert Diess held a news conference greener Fiat 500 In terms of regional distribu­ Workers install a charging pile for a new energy car from WM Motor at an expo in Shanghai. on Friday morning to update the Fiat Chrysler plans to spend 700 tion, the top 10 municipalities and GAO YUWEN / FOR CHINA DAILY joint­venture they unveiled at the million euros ($788 million) to provinces for public charging piles Detroit auto show in January. The take the Fiat 500 electric. It are Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and According to sales statistics that at least 1.6 million new energy two companies intend to share comes after the carmaker saw its the provinces of Jiangsu, Guang­ 410,000 released by the China Passenger vehicles will be sold this year, up costs on developing autonomous $35 billion bid to merge with dong, Shandong, Zhejiang, Hebei, units Car Association, some of China’s from 1.2 million in 2018. cars and electric vehicles, two France’s Renault fail. FCA chief Anhui and Hubei. new energy carmakers performed However, unlike the new energy expensive ventures expected to of charging piles in China by operating officer for Europe, Mid­ Up to the first half this year, the the end of June 2019 well in the first half of this year. segment, China’s overall automo­ become more central to the auto dle East and Africa, Pietro Gorli­ total amount of the public charging BAIC BJEV, the electric vehicle bile market is suffering from a con­ business in the coming years, er, announced the company’s piles in the top 10 municipalities and subsidiary of BAIC Group, sold tinued fall in growth. industry sources said. biggest single bet on an electric provinces exceeded 310,000, 49,076 of its EU series in the first A total of 2.06 million vehicles vehicle at its Mirafiori plant in accounting for some 75 percent of 270,000 half of 2019, achieving an impress­ were sold in June, down 9.6 per­ Daimler cuts profit Turin, northern Italy on Thurs­ the national total. units ive 1,506.9 percent growth from cent year­on­year, according to the day. FCA’s investment is part of a As for private charging piles, the same period last year. China Association of Automobile forecast again of private charging piles were plan announced last year to 270,000 units were installed in the installed in the past year Even better, BYD’s new energy Manufacturers.Sales from Janu­ German auto giant Daimler, mak­ spend 5 billion euros in Italy up past year alone, with a monthly aver­ vehicle model the Yuan EV sold ary to June totaled 12.32 million, er of Mercedes­Benz, on Friday to 2021. Gorlier told reporters age increase of 22,500 piles. 43,180 units during the first six falling 12.4 percent from the same slashed its 2019 profit forecast for that FCA had started building the China sold 152,000 electric vehi­ Among them, 490,000 were elec­ months this year, up 2,152.5 per­ period in 2018, which has resulted the second time in a few weeks new production line at Mirafiori cles, plug­in hybrids and fuel cell tric cars, with an increase of 56.6 cent from the same period in 2018. in the CAAM estimating that the after booking a 1.6­billion­euro to produce 80,000 of the new 500 cars in June, up 80 percent year­on­ percent from the first six months Geely sold 23,715 of its Emgrand yearly fall in growth to be up 5 per­ ($1.8 billion) operating loss in the BEV. It will be its first battery year, according to the China Associa­ of last year; 126,000 were plug­in EV model from January to June cent.“As things have turned out, it second quarter. Unforeseen electric vehicle to be marketed in tion of Automobile Manufacturers. hybrid electric vehicles, up 26.4 this year, achieving a 109.9 percent would be exceedingly difficult to events, including a mass recall Europe. In the first six months of this year, percent; and 1,102 were fuel cell increase compared to the same realize the estimate we made earli­ over faulty airbags and govern­ 617,000 new energy vehicles were vehicles, a 7.8­times increase in period last year. er of zero percent growth,” said Shi ment probes and legal cases relat­ MOTORING­AGENCIES sold, up 49.6 percent from the same sales from the same period in The China Association of Auto­ Jianhua, deputy secretary­general period last year. 2018. mobile Manufacturers expects of the association.

By CAO YINGYING [email protected] We are a responsible The 2019 BMW China Culture Culture journey helps perpetuate Journey kicked off in Haikou, Hain­ brand that not only an province last week to explore the evaluates our intangible cultural heritage of the province. The German carmaker is valuable intangible cultural heritage products and making efforts to integrate intangible technology but also cultural heritage into modern life. Built on the theme of “Explore assesses the value we Hainan Island, a Spiritual Homeland deliver to society.” of Originality and Glamour,” the six­ day journey included a visit to Hain­ Johann Wieland, president an Museum in Haikou city, Tanmen and CEO of BMW Brilliance Automotive Port in Qionghai city and other sites to learn about the Li and Miao peo­ ples and the unique culture of these Plan for Traditional Craftsmanship ethnic groups. amid efforts to protect intangible cul­ Johann Wieland, president and tural heritage and meet needs such as CEO of BMW Brilliance Automotive, employment and poverty alleviation. said at the July 8 kick­off event that This year, BMW China Culture the journey in Hainan is special for Journey selected three representative the German brand because Hans intangible cultural heritage items: Stuebel, a German ethnologist, visited traditional dyeing, weaving and the island and established an early embroidery skills of Li ethnic group, connection between the Li people in coconut carving and dongpo bamboo Hainan and the Western society 80 hat manufacturing skills, and five rel­ years ago. evant inheritors in Hainan province “As a premium automotive manu­ to Tsinghua BMW Innovation Center facturer with over a century of history, for Intangible Cultural Heritage Safe­ we’ve always taken time to look back guarding. and review our development path,” These inheritors, together with pro­ Wieland said. fessors and students from Tsinghua “We are a responsible brand that University’s Academy of Arts and not only evaluates our products and Delegates of the 2019 BMW China Culture Journey’s visit in Hainan pose for a photo before setting off. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY Design, will co­design creative intan­ technology but also assesses the value gible cultural heritage products in the we deliver to society.” next three months. This year marks the 13th consec­ Such collaboration will help to cre­ utive year of BMW’s commitment to ate more jobs and assist with the protecting traditional Chinese cul­ implementation of the national policy ture. of Poverty Alleviation through Cultur­ The carmaker has innovated to al Means. build a sustainable public platform, To help raise awareness of intangi­ which connects social resources to ble cultural heritage among China’s better integrate intangible cultural younger generations, highlights of the heritage into modern life. The plat­ journey were shared on the video­ form has made several achievements sharing site TikTok with the topic of in recent years. “Fun Intangible Cultural Heritage”, In 2016, BMW partnered with encouraging users to share their vid­ Tsinghua University’s Academy of eos on intangible cultural heritage as Arts and Design to establish an inno­ a way of promoting China’s vast array vation center for intangible cultural of valuable and unique examples of heritage safeguarding. From 2016 to culture. 2018, a total of 30 inheritors were Ning Hongwen, deputy director of selected and trained at the innovation Members of the Li ethnic group demonstrate the intangible cultural Representatives attend the launch ceremony of the 2019 BMW Chi­ the Hainan Provincial Tourism, Cul­ center, focusing on modern design heritages of traditional dyeing, weaving and embroidery. na Culture Journey in Hainan province. ture, Broadcasting and Sports Depart­ and the creative transformation of ment, said the province appreciated intangible cultural heritage items. BMW’s contributions in improving Lu Xiaobo, dean of the Academy of Yang Meihong, vice­president at vant skills, is more effective and sus­ ly appears in modern­day life, because merce platforms, inviting famous art­ the creative transformation of Hain­ Arts and Design at Tsinghua Universi­ BMW Brilliance, said the company tainable. One of the biggest the traditional intangible cultural her­ ists and designers to work with an’s intangible cultural heritage. ty, said at this year’s kick­off event that used to donate money to inheritors difficulties in inheriting traditional itage products have difficulties in inheritors to co­design creative intan­ The program’s help in raising the Tsinghua BMW Innovation Cen­ but later realized giving money isn’t culture is encouraging the young gen­ meeting people’s needs in modern gible cultural heritage products to awareness among traditional cul­ ter for Intangible Cultural Heritage sustainable over the long run. eration to learn the crafts, Yang said. life. attract younger customers, Yang said. ture lovers to visit Hainan and expe­ Safeguarding has stepped onto a new The training program, which aims Some of the crafts are hard and tir­ To solve these problems, BMW In recent years, the Chinese govern­ rience the island’s unique marine stage. to enable inheritors to master rele­ ing. Intangible cultural heritage rare­ helps sell the products on their e­com­ ment has rolled out the Revitalization culture was “truly commendable”.

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