UC Davis Recent Work Title Chinese Rural Vehicles: An Explanatory Analysis of Technology, Economics, Industrial Organization, Energy Use, Emissions, and Policy Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2g52511b Authors Sperling, Dan Lin, Zhenhong Hamilton, Peter Publication Date 2004 eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California CHINESE RURAL VEHICLES: AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMICS, INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION, ENERGY USE, EMISSIONS, AND POLICY UCD-ITS-RR-04-1 January 2004 by Daniel Sperling Institute of Transportation Studies University of California, Davis 95616, USA Tel (530) 752--7434
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[email protected] 1 Abstract Over 3 million Chinese Rural Vehicles (CRVs) were produced in China in 2002, triple that of conventional cars and trucks. Yet these smaller, simpler, indigenous vehicles are virtually unknown outside China. The CRV industry is unusual in that it evolved largely outside the control of government regulation and policy, using local technology and resources.