China News Service, Haikou, November 10 (Reporter Wang Xiaobin) In September this year, for every 100 new cars sold in Hainan, 77 were new energy vehicles. On November 10, the Hainan Provincial Information Office held a press conference. Li Zhengrong, director of the Industrial Safety Production, Environmental Protection and Energy Conservation Division of the Hainan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, revealed that the penetration rate of Hainan's new energy vehicles reached 77.03% in September, ranking first among provincial regions in the country.
Overall, the scale of Hainan's new energy vehicles continues to expand. Li Zhengrong introduced that as of the end of September this year, the number of new energy vehicles in the province exceeded 600,000, accounting for 26.08% of the total number of vehicles, ranking second among provincial regions in the country. From January to September this year, new energy vehicles accounted for 67.36% of new vehicles in the province.
While the penetration rate of passenger cars continues to rise, replacement by new energy commercial vehicles is also accelerating. Li Zhengrong introduced that from January to September, the province had promoted a total of 7,437 new energy freight vehicles, accounting for 50.8% of the new trucks. Among them, heavy trucks, which produce the largest exhaust emissions, accounted for 58.23% of new energy additions.
The rapid popularity of new energy vehicles is related to Hainan's continued improvement of policy systems and infrastructure support. Li Zhengrong said that Hainan closely adheres to the optimization and promotion policies in the direction of electrification, networking, and intelligence, promotes coordinated linkage between vehicle promotion and industry cultivation, and provides institutional support for the peak of carbon emissions in the transportation sector.
On the industrial side, Hainan is using the free trade port policy to cultivate characteristic manufacturing of new energy vehicles. Li Zhengrong introduced that Hainan is actively seeking the implementation of the tariff-free policy for value-added processing of special vehicles from national ministries and commissions. Currently, the number of special vehicle companies in the province has increased to 8, and projects such as Fujian Vichiteng and Hubei Chengli Group have been implemented and started. In 2025, the output value of new energy vehicles, mainly special vehicles, in the province will be 560 million yuan.
Test demonstrations of intelligent connected cars are also accelerating. Li Zhengrong introduced that Hainan is accelerating the construction of the "three cities and two lines" vehicle-road-cloud integration pilot project and taking the lead in exploring provincial-level cross-domain collaborative applications. At the end of October, Hainan released the fifth batch of open road sections (areas) for smart car testing and demonstration applications, opening up six cities and counties along the eastern route and the entire Chengmai area, with a cumulative test mileage of more than 1,400 kilometers and an area of more than 14,000 square kilometers. At the same time, Baidu and China Car Rental are promoted to open the first "autonomous driving + leasing" scenario for individuals, forming the contiguous advantages of "autonomous driving + cultural tourism".
