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Greeting from Professor C.C. Chan |
| Since the invention of automobiles over a decade ago, automobiles have changed the word with regards to promote global economic development and improving human living with freedom of mobility. However, would this freedom of mobility be sustainable The major challenges of sustainable mobility are energy, environment of traffic safety. Green vehicles, including battery electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, fuel cell vehicles and alternative fuels vehicles, are clean, efficient and intelligent transportation means in the 21st century. We are now seeing the dawn of the commercialization of electric vehicles. However the wide acceptance of electric vehicles depending on cost,convenience of use, energy |
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| consumption and emission. Thus we need the following three goodness factors: 1.Availibility of good products with good performance and affordable cost; 2. Availability of good infrastructures that are efficient and user friendly; 3. Availability of good business model that can leverage the cost of batteries. These need the shake hand and compromise between automobile industry and electric power industry, as well as the alliance of stakeholders. All these important issues will be addressed at the China Electric Vehicle Forum 2012 attended by technical experts, industry leaders, financial institutions and government agencies. This conference will serve as a timely Bridge and Switch Board, to integrate and inter connect the technology, capital, resource and market. I am pleased to write this greeting message and welcome you to join this very timely gathering, which I believe would be fruitful and enjoyable. |
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Professor C.C. Chan, FIEEE, FIET, FHKIE
Founding President, World Electric Vehicle Association
Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K.
Academician, Chinese Academy of Engineering. |
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