China's first solar-electric car unveiled in Anhui

Shanghai, September 5 (Gasgoo.com) China's first electric car using solar energy for compensatory power has been successfully developed by an Anhui high-tech company and the car made its debut in the provincial capital of Heifei on August 29, reported Auto Weekly today.

The solar-electric vehicle was developed by Maanshan Qisheng New-energy Technology Company in eastern China's Anhui province. The high-tech firm's chairman Wu Qi said that the company has spent six years in developing this all-new vehicle model independently by absorbing some foreign state-of-the-art technologies of auto-use new energy.

This solar-electric car design has gained the national invention patent and the vehicle is having a trial run in tourist resorts of Hainan Island in South China. Wu said the car has a top speed of 20 km/h and a lifespan of more than three years. It can run 200 km without stopping and go up a slope of 15 degrees.

China's tourism market currently needs about 100,000 units of this kind of electric car with solar energy for compensatory power. Qisheng New-energy Tech Company has plans to make 50,000 solar-electric cars annually by 2013, which will generate 2.6 billion yuan ($380 million) in output value.