{"id":5511,"date":"2011-08-26T17:36:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T09:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/?p=5511"},"modified":"2011-08-26T17:36:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T09:36:52","slug":"hertz-and-ge-plan-to-partner-in-offering-electric-vehicles-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/hertz-and-ge-plan-to-partner-in-offering-electric-vehicles-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Hertz and GE Plan to Partner in Offering Electric Vehicles in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<fb:like \n\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/hertz-and-ge-plan-to-partner-in-offering-electric-vehicles-in-china\/\" \n\t\tlayout=\"button_count\" \n\t\tshow_faces=\"true\" \n\t\twidth=\"450\" \n\t\theight=\"30\"\n\t\taction=\"like\" \n\t\tcolorscheme=\"light\" \n\t\tstyle=\"margin-top:5px;\"\n\t\tclass=\"fb_edge_widget_with_comment fb_iframe_widget\"><\/fb:like><p>Rental car company Hertz Global Holdings and General Electric plan to partner in offering electric vehicles in China and expanding the charging networks needed to run them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5512\" title=\"Hertz Car Rental China\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/image.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/image-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An agreement signed in Shanghai&#8217;s &#8220;Auto City&#8221; of Anting on Wednesday calls for building hundreds of charging stations in major Chinese cities including Shanghai and Beijing, Hertz executives said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The plan aligns with the government&#8217;s effort to promote commercialization of new energy vehicles as a way to reduce oil imports and help to reduce carbon footprint. Setting up the infrastructure to charge such vehicles is viewed as a key hurdle toward enticing consumers to switch from cars that run on gasoline or diesel to electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Working with our existing rental car network in China and partners such as GE, we are dedicated to helping build the necessary EV infrastructure in China and to create a new transportation solution that employs the latest technology and harnesses innovations being launched in China today,&#8221; said Mark P. Frissora, Hertz&#8217;s chairman and CEO.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The government has included building up the electric vehicle industry in its current five-year economic blueprint but despite its ambitious plans such vehicles are still a negligible part of China&#8217;s auto sales due to their high cost and inconvenience compared with regular vehicles.<\/p>\n<fb:like \n\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/hertz-and-ge-plan-to-partner-in-offering-electric-vehicles-in-china\/\" \n\t\tlayout=\"button_count\" \n\t\tshow_faces=\"true\" \n\t\twidth=\"450\" \n\t\theight=\"30\"\n\t\taction=\"like\" \n\t\tcolorscheme=\"light\" \n\t\tstyle=\"margin-top:5px;\"\n\t\tclass=\"fb_edge_widget_with_comment fb_iframe_widget\"><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rental car company Hertz Global Holdings and General Electric plan to partner in offering electric vehicles in China and expanding the charging networks needed to run them. &nbsp; An agreement signed in Shanghai&#8217;s &#8220;Auto City&#8221; of Anting on Wednesday calls for building hundreds of charging stations in major Chinese cities including Shanghai and Beijing, Hertz &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3504,5,3695],"tags":[5717,5714,5709,5715,5710,5711,5712,5713,5716],"class_list":["post-5511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-electric-vehicle-2","category-news","category-others","tag-china-electric-vehicles","tag-ge-china","tag-general-electric","tag-general-electric-china","tag-hertz","tag-hertz-car-rental","tag-hertz-car-rental-china","tag-hertz-china","tag-hertz-china-electric-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5515,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions\/5515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}