What is the government's focus on the power battery industry?

Overall, as this is an emerging industry, the government’s focus varied in different periods, with the initial focus being on R&D and the production of the power battery industry to promote its development.

Are power batteries the core of new energy vehicles?

Power batteries are the core of new energy vehicles, especially pure electric vehicles. Owing to the rapid development of the new energy vehicle industry in recent years, the power battery industry has also grown at a fast pace (Andwari et al., 2017).

How important are batteries in the development of Nev industry?

clarified the importance of batteries in the development of the NEV industry. In 2009, the state promote 10 new cities and 1,000 new energy v ehicles for each city every year. Since then, China's NEV industry has entered a period of ra pid development. just like Figure 1 shows. Figure 1. NEV Sales and Battery Installed Capacity increase of 45.8%.

Is China's new energy vehicle battery industry coevolutionary?

Empirically, we study the new energy vehicle battery (NEVB) industry in China since the early 2000s. In the case of China's NEVB industry, an increasingly strong and complicated coevolutionary relationship between the focal TIS and relevant policies at different levels of abstraction can be observed.

Why do we need a new battery subsidy policy?

In addition to annually reducing the amount of subsidy for public and private purchases, these policy adjustments also imposed more stringent technical requirements (e.g., energy density, driving range, etc.) for receiving subsidies in order to promote the development of core battery technologies by the domestic firms (policy aims at low-levels).

Does China have a power battery industry policy publishing department?

Based on the research method presented in Sect. 3.3.2, the statistical results for China’s power battery industry policy publishing departments are shown in Fig. 3 (see Appendix for the full names of the departments).