Why Geely sticks to methanol vehicles in China while others don’t?

Gasgoo.com (Shanghai Jan 15) - Methanol had uniquely been part of Geely’s new energy vehicle strategy, an impressing plan released at the end of last year that the automaker would raise the proportion of new energy vehicles to 90% by the year of 2020.

It was the first automaker in China that had been approved by authorities to produce methanol vehicles since the year of 2005. Having developed methanol engines of 1.5L and 1.8L displacement, the manufacture put a methanol car entitled Haijing SC7 into project promotion and demonstration operation in many big cities in China like Shanxi and Shanghai.

Discouraged by poisonousness and erosion nature, automakers paid little heed on methanol vehicles, especially without policies support. But Geely valued the efficiency and economic nature of methanol since it was made from the cheap coal which was relatively much rich than oil.

Considering recharge inconvenience, the automaker designed two fuel tanks of methanol and oil. Though the state hadn’t enacted any promoting policies on methanol vehicles, a local government 0f Shanxi Province offered a generous subsidy in promoting them, assuming a prominent future for them.