The Design of China's First EV Crowd Ranking Platform: BestEV Methodology Development Report (January 2016/ Clean Transportation Program)

Local and national policymakers have taken steps to increasingly strengthen consumer benefits in order to accelerate NEV commercialisation but despite these efforts, supply and demand of high-quality EVs has remained low. As a step to increase EV performance, BestEV aims to provide the general public and automakers with insights regarding China’s EV market.This report is the first milestone of the BestEV platform:a transparent scientific methodology was developed with its basis in meta-analysis review, then in collaboration with 28 experts through the employment of the Delphi Method,and later finalisedthrough consultation with various experienced stakeholders in a dedicated consensus development workshop.