The emergence of car sharing services began with the founding of Zipcar in 1999. Since then, car sharing has taken off across the world due to its flexibility when compared with traditional car rental and carpooling services. Some well-known car sharing operations include Autolib, a French-based venture that has been expanding aggressively, and the popular micro-transportation program in Hangzhou, China.
EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, finds that India has become the fastest growing photovoltaic (PV) market and replaced the U.K. as one of the top three exports markets for Chinese modules. Based on EnergyTrend’s latest report, the Chinese PV industry exported 12GW of modules during this half-year period, with over 6GW going to three principal overseas markets – Japan, the U.S. and India.