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Origins
The Lusheng E70 of 2013 gave Hawtai a mid-size saloon — conservative styling, sedate specification, fleet-minded pricing — that found its modest purpose when new-energy policy remade the market: electric versions supplied taxi and government fleets, where subsidy mathematics and municipal relationships mattered more than showroom appeal. Production continued to 2018 across combustion and EV forms. The E70 typifies a whole category of transition-era Chinese cars: engineered adequately, sold administratively, and electrified opportunistically as the policy winds shifted — vehicles whose fleet registrations, not private garages, absorbed the early years of China's electric conversion. History rarely names such cars; the statistics they filled changed the industry. Somewhere in the taxi statistics of Shandong, the E70's real career is recorded.
Hawtai E70 02 China · Navigator84 · CC BY-SA 4.0
