The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government announced that a variety of electric vehicle (EV) models would be introduced into Hong Kong next year, reflecting the keen interest of overseas vehicle manufacturers in the Hong Kong market.
According to the city’s Secretary for the Environment, Mr Edward Yau, the Hong Kong Government has been pursuing collaboration with various EV manufacturers including Mitsubishi, Nissan and BYD. We also began the trial on Mitsubishi’s EV ‘i MiEV’ in May.
”So far the testing results have been positive. The first batch supply of ‘i MiEV’ will be launched progressively before April 2010. The Government will procure 10 units in this batch for deployment in different bureaus and departments. This will enable us to test the performance of EVs comprehensively under different operational environment,” Mr Yau said.
“Hong Kong is the first market in Asia, other than Japan, where ‘i MiEVs’ will be sold before April 2010. This is a good start. The supply will enable the extension of testing to the private sector. It will also help expose a wider section of the community to the EV driving experience. We hope that more EV manufacturers will follow the example in pitching Hong Kong as one of the priority markets for the introduction of EVs.” Mr Yau said.
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