The demonstration of electric vehicles was launched on January 23 in Hefei City of Anhui Province. Vice Minister CAO Jianlin of MOST and Vice Governor NI Fake of Anhui Province attended the ceremony and handed over the keys of electric buses to Hefei Public Transportation Group.

30 electric buses were put into operation in the demonstration, after which research and commercialization of new energy vehicles will be pushed. It is hoped that thousands of new energy vehicles could roll on the street by 2012.