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The eastern Chinese city of Jinan announced Tuesday it would offer vouchers worth 10 million yuan (about 1.6 million U.S. dollars) to boost the city's consumption on new-energy vehicles (NEV).

China, the world's largest automobile market, is expected to have more than 300 million registered automobiles by the end of this year, an official with the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said on Saturday.

NEVs currently account for 1.75 percent of China's registered automobiles that number 281 million. Of the NEVs, 81.32 percent are pure electric vehicles.

After roughly one-month at sea, the vessel carrying the first batch of made-in-China Tesla Model 3 heading for Europe has arrived at Zeebrugge port in Belgium on Thursday evening, according to the Automatic Identification System (AIS) data of the vessel.

Israeli autonomous vehicle company Mobileye, a subsidiary of the U.S. top chipmaker Intel, announced on Thursday a partnership with Chinese automaker Geely Automobile Holdings.