CHINESE automakers produced more than 25,000 new energy vehicles in June, four times as many as they did in the same month last year, new data indicated Tuesday.

    Breaking down last month’s figures, they produced 10,500 electric cars, growing 200 percent year on year, and 6,663 plug-in hybrid cars, growing 700 percent, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

    Meanwhile, output of electric commercial vehicles last month reached 6,218, up 500 percent year on year, while output of plug-in commercial hybrid vehicles grew 148 percent to 1,645.

    The June data brought total the output of new energy vehicles in the first half of 2015 to 78,500, up 300 percent year on year, said the MIIT.(SD-Agencies)