Ten Cities Thousand Vehicles

Ten Cities Thousand Vehicles is the 2009 Chinese new-energy vehicle program highlighted in E229｜从手工作坊到全球第一：中国动力电池逆袭史. 张从志 / Zhang Congzhi treats it as a foundational inflection because government subsidies created early demand before private EV adoption was mature.

The program matters in the source because demand creation pulled firms, engineers, local governments, and supply-chain actors into the power-battery field. It is the policy-demand layer beneath later company success by CATL / 宁德时代, BYD, and other domestic battery producers.

Connections

• Power Battery Whitelist — later protection mechanism that shaped supplier competition.
• Power Battery Industry Chain — industrial system that grew around early demand.
• China — country and industrial-policy context.
• Local Battery Industrial Clusters — city-level follow-through after demand creation.