Driving along the road that leads to a sustainable future

New energy cars are opening up a greener future for motorists in China.

In the first five months of this year, 136,000 fuel-efficient vehicles, such as plug-in hybrids and battery cell cars, were sold in the country, a jump of 7.8 percent, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers or CAAM.

Sales could reach 700,000 units by the end of this year, a report by Ping An Securities, a financial company, stated. Up to 500,000 of them could be passenger cars, while the figures could increase further in 2018.