大众陷柴油车丑闻在华业务毫发未伤_时事

大众陷柴油车丑闻在华业务毫发未伤

HONG KONG — China is Volkswagen’s single-largestmarket, and the company vies with General Motors as the country’s biggest automaker. ButVolkswagen’s diesel scandal is unlikely to have many repercussions in China.

香港——中国是大众汽车(Volkswagen)的最大市场，此外它还在和通用汽车(General Motors)争夺该国最大汽车制造商的地位。但它的柴油丑闻可能不会在这里产生太大影响。

That is because Volkswagen sells almost no diesel cars in China — fewer than 1,000 of the threemillion or so the company sells each year in the country, where gasoline engines reign.

这是因为大众在中国销售的车型中几乎没有柴油车——公司每年在中国销售300万辆车，其中不到1000辆是柴油动力;汽油动力汽车是在中国占据绝对优势。

It is not for lack of trying on Volkswagen’s part.

这并不是因为大众没有尝试过销售柴油车。

The company, hoping to replicate its success elsewhere as a diesel leader, lobbied Beijing forthe better part of a decade to let it build diesel-powered cars in China. But regulators in China,which imports more than half of its oil, have repeatedly rebuffed those pleas — partly overenvironmental concerns and partly because the government has preferred to reserve relativelyscarce diesel fuel for trucks and farm tractors.