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The associations, based in Europe, the United States, Japan and
South Korea and representing around 70 percent of global car
production, also called for the quotas to be postponed by at
least one to three years, the magazine said on Thursday.
China last month upheld the sales quotas for electric cars in
draft regulation, ignoring concessions that had been agreed
between Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and German Chancellor Angela
Merkel.
The draft says that automakers must sell enough electric or
plug-in hybrid vehicles to generate "credits" equivalent to 8
percent of sales by 2018, 10 percent by 2019 and 12 percent by
2020 -- criteria many in the industry deem too ambitious.
The number of credits per car is based on the level of
electrification.
According to WirtschaftsWoche, the industry associations are
demanding that the Chinese government includes less harsh
penalties for failing to reach the sales quota, and that it
tailors the quota to each carmaker's production volume to avoid
putting companies that make a smaller number of vehicles at a
disadvantage.
(Reporting by Maria Sheahan; Editing by Keith Weir)
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