STORY: China's EV industry offers a lot of opportunities: Italian professor
SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 23, 2024
DATELINE: Dec. 25, 2024
LENGTH: 00:02:42
LOCATION: XIAMEN, China
CATEGORY: ECONOMY/TECHNOLOGY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of Luigi d'Apolito working with his students
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): LUIGI D'APOLITO, Italian professor at Xiamen University of Technology
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): LUIGI D'APOLITO, Italian professor at Xiamen University of Technology
4. various of China's electric vehicle (EV) industry

STORYLINE:

Luigi d'Apolito, an Italian automotive engineering professor who has been living in Xiamen for over 12 years, speaks highly of the rapid development of China's electric vehicle (EV) industry.

As a mechanical and automotive engineering expert at the Xiamen University of Technology, d'Apolito is also employed as an advisor for formula student competitions.

Moreover, he is involved in projects with local companies, in particular for the studies of power distribution units used in battery systems for electric vehicles.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): LUIGI D'APOLITO, Italian professor at Xiamen University of Technology
"Actually, when I moved to China since 2010, I felt that China had the potential over growing in this sector. Because actually one of the biggest advantages of China about the electric vehicles, I think, is that China started much earlier than other countries to plan and develop the plans for the electric vehicles. So these made me more confident when I relocated from Italy to China."

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): LUIGI D'APOLITO, Italian professor, Xiamen University of Technology
"In the last 12 years, I saw a very great transformation of the Chinese automotive industry, in particular for the electric vehicles. In the last years, many new brands went out for the production of electric vehicles and a very large number of new models or electric vehicles developed. This strong growth of the electric vehicles market in China, I think, is also a very good opportunity for automotive engineers or researchers like me, because the stronger competition between the electric vehicle companies also pushed a lot of the need of innovation, and the innovation requires also strong investment. These strong investments help the electric vehicle sector to grow, but also offered a lot of opportunities for the researchers, for the engineers that can contribute to these developments."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Xiamen, China.
(XHTV)