????埃隆?穆斯克執掌的特斯拉汽車公司（Tesla Motors Inc）上周五表示，公司將與中國聯通（China Unicom）合作，在中國鋪設特斯拉電動汽車充電站網絡。中國聯通是中國第二大移動通信網絡公司。

????這是迄今為止特斯拉為其零排放電動汽車建設配套基礎設施的最大合作項目。這凸顯出特斯拉不愿依賴中國政府霧里看花的電動汽車行業規劃，并渴望在其未來最大的市場——中國保持對自身策略的掌控。

????彭博資訊（Bloomberg）上周四報道稱，中國政府正在考慮投資160億美元，在全國范圍內建設電動汽車配套設施，以期到2020年實現有500萬輛電動汽車上路，并緩解大城市嚴重的空氣污染問題。

????中國政府希望有盡可能多的公司制造電動汽車，并讓外國公司與中國本地公司合作。而特斯拉雖已高調放言要找一家中資合資伙伴，但它其實不愿分享獨家技術。

????迄今關于這一計劃的細節仍很少。因此，電動汽車制造商們面臨一個難堪的選擇：要么依賴政府提供資金的計劃，但最終可能是一些制造商獲得政府偏愛，要么要付出更多的自有資金投向基礎設施建設，以掌控自身的命運。

????路透社（Reuters）援引特斯拉中國（Tesla China）發言人的話稱，充電服務將是免費的，但僅供特斯拉汽車使用。

????此前，特斯拉已與包括Soho中國（Soho China Ltd）和中國銀泰投資有限公司（China Yintai Holdings）在內的房地產開發商宣布合作，但中國聯通在全國范圍內擁有廣泛的營業廳網絡，是更高層次的合作伙伴。

????據特斯拉中國發言人楊淑婷上周五稱，兩家公司計劃在中國120個城市的聯通營業廳建設400座充電站。它們還將建設20座超級充電站，其充電速度將比普通汽車充電站快16倍。（財富中文網）

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????Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors Incsaid Friday it would partner with China’s second-largest mobile phone company, China Unicom, in setting up a nationwide network of charging points for its electric vehicles.

????The deal is the company’s biggest to date in its efforts to create a support infrastructure for its emission-free cars. It underlines Tesla’s reluctance to depend on the vagaries of Chinese government planning for the sector, and its desire to keep control of its own strategy in what should one day be its biggest market.

????Bloomberg had reported Thursday that the Chinese government is looking to spend $16 billion in creating a national infrastructure for EVs, as part of its campaign to get 5 million on the roads by 2020 and reduce the pollution that is choking its biggest cities.

????The Chinese government is eager to have as many companies as possible producing EVs. But it also likes to have foreign companies partner in China with local ones, and while Tesla has made noises about finding a joint-venture partner, it is reluctant to share the technology which it believes makes it special.

????There are few details surrounding the plans as yet, As such, makers of EVs face an uncomfortable choice of relying on a government-financed plan that may end up favoring some makers more than others, or keeping control of their own destiny at the cost of investing more of their own money.

????Reuters quoted a Tesla China spokeswoman as saying that the charging service will be free but only available for Tesla vehicles.

????Tesla had earlier announced initiatives with real estate developers including Soho China Ltd and China Yintai Holdings to build charging points, but Unicom, with its nationwide chain of retail outlets, is a different scale of partner altogether.

????The companies plan to build 400 charging stations at China Unicom outlets in 120 cities, agencies quoted Tesla China spokeswoman Peggy Yang as saying Friday. They’ll also build 20 super-charging facilities, which can recharge cars up to 16 times more quickly.