Power Battery Whitelist

Power Battery Whitelist is the 2015 policy mechanism discussed in E229｜从手工作坊到全球第一：中国动力电池逆袭史. 何倩然 / He Qianran says the whitelist excluded Japanese and Korean battery suppliers from the subsidized Chinese EV market and accelerated domestic firms such as CATL / 宁德时代 and BYD.

The source uses the whitelist to show that China’s battery rise was not pure market selection. Policy protection gave local firms enough demand, time, and investment confidence to build Battery Manufacturing Know-How and a domestic Power Battery Industry Chain.

Connections

• Ten Cities Thousand Vehicles — earlier demand-creation policy.
• CATL / 宁德时代 and BYD — domestic firms helped by the protected market in the source.
• China — industrial-policy context.
• Chinese Hardware Globalization — broader contrast with global hardware categories that face different timing of protection and trade barriers.