China Offers Billions to Subsidize Electric Cars on Gas

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China’s ambitious plan to lower pollution by adopting five million electric cars is running into a problem -- a lack of charging stations.

Eddy Wu, a Shanghai resident, bought a plug-in hybrid because the car was eco-friendly, subsidized by the government and exempt from license-plate fees. Now he runs it mostly on gasoline, the electric capabilities largely wasted.