China wants to raise its annual production capacity to 500,000 hybrid or all-electric cars and buses by the end of 2011. In 2011 Japan and South Korea together will be producing 1.1 million hybrid or all-electric light vehicles by then and North America will be making 267,000
China is making a virtue of a liability. It is behind the United States, Japan and other countries when it comes to making gas-powered vehicles, but by skipping the current technology, China hopes to get a jump on the next.
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