312 fuel cell vehicles drove into the Beijing Winter Olympics

Beijing, February 10 (China Youth Daily, China Youth Daily reporter Meng Peipei) Today, the 2022 Beijing News Center held a special press conference on the construction of Beijing's "two districts". Liu Yutong, director of the 2022 Beijing News Center, revealed in response to a reporter's question that 312 fuel cell vehicles have been invested in the Winter Olympics and large-scale demonstration operations have been carried out.

Liu Yutong said that Beijing is very concerned about the development of new energy vehicles, including electric vehicles, and proposes to strive for a cumulative number of new energy vehicles in the city to reach 2 million by 2025. "By the end of 2021, the cumulative number of new energy vehicles in Beijing has reached 507,000."

Liu Yutong introduced that in 2021, Beijing will use idle production capacity to start the construction of the ideal car Beijing Shunyi Green Intelligent Factory, with a design capacity of 250,000 electric vehicles, which will be completed and put into operation in September 2023, and actively promote the electrification of Beijing Benz, the largest automobile joint venture in Beijing.

He also mentioned that Beijing adheres to the basic principles of "electricity and hydrogen", passenger car electricity, commercial vehicle hydrogen, and vigorously promotes the development of the fuel cell vehicle industry, and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei fuel cell vehicle demonstration city cluster led by Beijing has been included in the first batch of national demonstration city clusters, and it is planned to promote the application of more than 800 fuel cell vehicles by the end of this year.

Source: China Youth Daily client