China will force most car makers in the country to start manufacturing electric vehicles in 2019—a one-year reprieve from an earlier proposal that foreign auto companies had fought against, but still the strongest national initiative yet to spur alternatives to gasoline and diesel cars. Under a long-awaited plan announced Thursday, China will set gradually escalating quotas for pure-electric cars, plug-in hybrids and fuel-cell cars,...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 28, 2017 14:19 UTC