The establishment of a national team to promote electric cars is of great significance to China's ambition to make the leap from being the world's biggest auto market to its greenest one.
In the morning, I leave my apartment early and walk toward the train station, a few blocks away.
We hear a lot of talk these days about the "green economy"- and the automotive industry is certainly a big part of that - but the market for "green cars" is driven far more by government command than consumer demand.
How many of the so-called "new energy vehicles" on China's roads are truly low carbon emission? The answer is: none.