China’s Coal Capital Is Spending Millions to Go Green
- Taiyuan replaces 8,000 taxis with BYD’s E6 electric vehicles
- A new car-charging station opens every other day in the city
China's Coal Capital Is Going Green
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Sitting in the middle of almost 270 billion tons of coal reserves, the city of Taiyuan in northern China is an unlikely place to look for a leader in the battle for a greener future.
This after all was China’s pollution poster child, a grimy industrial city of 4.3-million people that owed its growth to the coalfields of surrounding Shanxi province, among the nation’s biggest. Once ranked as the only metropolis in the country with air that was fouler than in Beijing, China’s coal capital is trying to clean up its act.