China has many independent brands, including BYD, Geely, Chery, JAC, Zotye, Great Wall, etc.

BYD's cars are slightly more expensive than other brands with the same configuration, Geely's cars have a good reputation due to their robot production line, and JAC's pure electric cars are very cost-effective.

Independent brands are also divided into state-owned and private. China FAW Hongqi is generally state-owned, while Zotye Cloud is a private enterprise.

Today's domestically produced cars are concentrated in new energy vehicles, such as BAIC New Energy E series, BYD's Qin Tang Yuan Song, Geely's Emgrand, Chery eQ, and JAC's iev series.

Most domestically produced cars are imported brands, such as Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, etc. Nowadays, imported cars are all oil-burning cars, and imported new energy sources are very expensive and there are no subsidies.

Extended information

From January to April 2015, my country produced a total of 34,400 new energy vehicles, an increase of nearly three times year-on-year. Among them, 15,900 pure electric passenger vehicles were produced, an increase of nearly three times year-on-year; 8,780 plug-in hybrid passenger vehicles were produced, an increase of three times year-on-year; 6,416 pure electric commercial vehicles were produced, an increase of five times year-on-year, and plug-in hybrid vehicles were produced 6,416 units, an increase of five times year-on-year. The company produced 3,330 hybrid commercial vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 70%. Among them, the top five domestic new energy vehicle sales companies are BYD, Zotye Group, BAIC New Energy, Chery Automobile, and SAIC Roewe.

New energy vehicles include pure electric vehicles, extended-range electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles, fuel cell electric vehicles, hydrogen engine vehicles, and other new energy vehicles.

Pure Electric Vehicles

Blade Electric Vehicles (BEV) are vehicles that use a single battery as the energy storage power source. The battery provides electric energy to the electric motor to drive the electric motor to drive the car.

Hybrid Electric Vehicle

Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) refers to a vehicle whose drive system is composed of two or more single drive systems that can operate simultaneously. The driving power is provided by a single drive system individually or by multiple drive systems simultaneously according to the actual vehicle driving state. Hybrid vehicles come in many forms due to differences in components, arrangements and control strategies.

Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle

Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV) uses hydrogen and oxygen in the air under the action of a catalyst. A vehicle driven by electricity generated by electrochemical reactions in a fuel cell as the main power source. Fuel cell electric vehicles are essentially a type of pure electric vehicle. The main difference lies in the working principle of the power battery. Generally speaking, fuel cells convert chemical energy into electrical energy through electrochemical reactions. The reducing agent required for the electrochemical reaction generally uses hydrogen, and the oxidant uses oxygen. Therefore, most of the earliest fuel cell electric vehicles developed directly use hydrogen fuel. Hydrogen storage can take the form of liquefied hydrogen, compressed hydrogen or metal hydride hydrogen storage.

Hydrogen engine cars

Hydrogen engine cars are cars that use hydrogen engines as their power source. The fuel used by general engines is diesel or gasoline, and the fuel used by hydrogen engines is gaseous hydrogen. Hydrogen engine vehicles are a truly zero-emission vehicle that emits pure water, which has the advantages of no pollution, zero emissions, and abundant reserves.

Other new energy vehicles

Other new energy vehicles include vehicles using high-efficiency energy storage devices such as supercapacitors and flywheels. Currently in my country, new energy vehicles mainly refer to pure electric vehicles, extended-range electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles and fuel cell electric vehicles. Conventional hybrid vehicles are classified as energy-saving vehicles.