Memorandum of Understanding on the Establishment of the
China–U.S. ZEV Policy Lab
between
The Regents of the University of California,
on Behalf of Its Davis Campus
and
China Automotive Technology and Research Center
This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is signed between the China Automotive Technology
and Research Center and The Regents of the University of California, on behalf of its Davis
Campus (hereinafter referred to as “the Cooperative Partners”). Based on the principle of equality
and mutual benefit, and with the support of California Air Resources Board as well as the support of
the Industry Coordination Bureau of the National Development and Reform Commission, People’s
Republic of China, the Cooperative Partners will conduct joint research through the establishment
of the China–U.S. ZEV Policy Lab to provide strong intellectual support to the development and
cooperation of the new energy vehicle industry in both the United States and China.
1. The Cooperative Partners
The China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC) was established in 1985 based
on the directive of the Chinese government’s China National Science and Technology Commission.
CATARC was created in response to the need of China for management of its auto industry.
CATARC is now affiliated with the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration
Commission of the State Council (SASAC). Among the 3,360 employees working at CATARC,
there are 1,114 engineering and technology professionals, including 298 senior-level engineers—70
of them with Ph.D. degrees—and 47 professor-level engineers. As the technical administration body
of the automotive industry and a technical support entity to the governmental authorities responsible
for the industry, CATARC, acting as an independent and impartial institution, assists the
government in such activities as formulating auto standards and technical regulations; conducting
product certification and testing; certifying quality control systems; carrying out industry planning
and policy research; providing information services; and conducting scientific research. Along the
way, CATARC has built up its research scale and capacity and established world-class sectororiented test laboratories and research institutes with a substantial number of outstanding and
talented personnel specializing in automotive-related technology research. CATARC’s Automotive
Industry Policy Research Department is the research center specializing in automotive industry and
related policy research at CATARC.
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The University of California, Davis is one of the very top public research universities in the United
States. The UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis) has 60 faculty and Ph.D.
researchers, and 130 graduate students. It has led the world in pioneering technical and policy
initiatives to promote sustainable transportation in general, and electric-drive vehicles in particular.
ITS-Davis’ China Center for Energy and Transportation (C-CET) is the only China research center
on transportation and energy in North America. C-CET works closely with Chinese government
agencies, top Chinese universities, and Chinese automotive companies on the rollout of China’s
new energy vehicles. In promoting new energy vehicles in China, C-CET also works closely with
the UC Davis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment and the Economy (Policy Institute), which
leverages world-class university expertise and engages directly with federal, state, and local
decision-makers to deliver credible, relevant, and timely information and analysis to inform better
energy and environmental policy.
2. Background of the Cooperation
Healthy development of China’s new energy vehicle industry needs a sound and effective
management system and a policy support system to regulate and guide the sector. With a firm
understanding of its domestic reality, Chinese government officials and researchers urgently need to
learn from foreign countries’ advanced ideas and successful experience as well as to further
strengthen top-level planning design and optimize the policy-making system for the development of
China’s new energy vehicle industry. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is the world’s
leading decision-making body on clean vehicle policies. It has developed and implemented the
Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Mandate, vehicle greenhouse gas emissions regulations, smog
emissions reduction regulations, and regulations related to the construction of clean fuel supply
stations, achieving satisfactory results. ITS-Davis, along with the Policy Institute, provides
important support to CARB’s sustainable transportation policies and regulations. ITS-Davis is
well-known in the world for its high-level policy research.
In recent years, CATARC and UC Davis have undertaken close exchanges and established a sound
cooperative relationship. In 2009, CATARC Director Hang Zhao met with ITS-Davis Director Dan
Sperling and C-CET Director Yunshi Wang in the offices of the Energy Foundation in San
Francisco. At this meeting, Director Sperling introduced ITS-Davis and California’s ZEV policies.
In September 2012, the Automotive Society Investigation Delegation organized by CATARC
interviewed CARB officials, with the help of ITS-Davis. In August 2013, invited by ITS-Davis,
Chief Engineer Yonghe Huang, CATARC’s Senior Chief Expert, attended the Transportation
Research Board’s Asilomar Conference on Transportation and Energy hosted by ITS-Davis. Chief
Engineer Huang explored the possibilities for further cooperation between the two parties with
Director Dan Sperling and Joe Krovoza, Senior Director of Development and External Relations
(and at that time also Mayor of the City of Davis). In September 2013, newly retired CARB Deputy
Executive Officer Tom Cackette and Director Yunshi Wang visited CATARC in China and
presented information on the California ZEV Mandate. In April 2014, Deputy Director Zhixin Wu
of CATARC invited Director Sperling and Director Yunshi Wang, along with CARB senior
manager for ZEV Analisa Bevan, to participate in the California ZEV Mandate and Chinese New
Energy Vehicles Development Workshop. At the workshop, both parties reached a consensus to
carry out substantive cooperation in ZEV policy research, in new energy vehicle consumer behavior
research, in scholastic exchanges and training, and in other areas.
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Therefore, the Cooperative Partners proposed to establish the China–U.S. ZEV Policy Lab. The
mission of the China–U.S. ZEV Policy Lab is to strengthen the exchanges and cooperation in the
new energy vehicle policy area between the U.S. and China through joint research and scholastic
exchanges and training.
3. Organization Structure
Plaques designating the China–U.S. ZEV Policy Lab will be officially displayed in both the U.S.
and China. The Chinese executive agency is the Automotive Industry Policy Research Department
of CATARC, led by CATARC’s executive in charge of new energy vehicles. The U.S. executive
agency is ITS-Davis and the Policy Institute. The Director of C-CET will be in charge on their
behalf. The China–U.S. ZEV Policy Lab will be staffed by researchers from both parties.
Overseeing the China–U.S. ZEV Policy Lab is the Board of Advisors, composed of officials from
the government agencies in charge of ZEVs/new energy vehicles in both countries and relevant
senior experts. The principal official from the Industry Coordination Bureau of the National
Development and Reform Commission and the principal official from CARB will be invited to be
co-chairs of the advisory board. The members of the board also include the CATARC director;
directors of ITS-Davis, the Policy Institute, and ITS-Davis’ Plug-in Hybrid & Electric Vehicle
Research Center; and representatives from major international and Chinese vehicle and energy
companies. The Board of Advisors will meet annually to provide guidance to the China–U.S. ZEV
Policy Lab on the coming year’s research direction and goals.
Board of Advisors Chinese participants:
 Board of Advisors Co-chair: Department Chief Gang Li, the Industry Coordination Bureau of
the National Development and Reform Commission
 Executive Agency: Automotive Industry Policy Research Department of CATARC
 Primary Executive Contact: CATARC’s executive in charge of new energy vehicles (Deputy
Director Zhixin Wu)
Board of Advisors U.S. participants:
 Board of Advisors Co-chair: Dr. Alberto Ayala, Deputy Executive Officer, CARB
 Executive Agency: UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies and Policy Institute
 Primary Executive Contact: Director of ITS-Davis’ China Center for Energy and
Transportation (Director Yunshi Wang)
4. Area of Cooperation
The function of the China–U.S. ZEV Policy Lab is to be the expert research institution for U.S. and
China ZEV/new energy vehicle policies as well as the intellectual support body for each
government’s policy design. As the important platform for U.S.–China ZEV/new energy vehicle
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policy exchanges and cooperation, the Cooperative Partners of the China–U.S. ZEV Policy Lab will
cooperate in the following four areas:
1. New Energy Vehicle Policy Research: Topics will include, but not be limited to, credit trading
policy, fiscal subsidies policy, tax incentive policy, transportation incentive policy, low-speed
electric vehicle policy, vehicle environmental policy, and continuous evaluation of policy
execution. The China–U.S. ZEV Policy Lab will also discuss the launch of the International
ZEV Alliance, exploring a global ZEV credit trading regime to increase the coordination and
scale-up of global ZEV development.
2. New Energy Vehicle Survey and Evaluation: The research scope includes, but is not limited to,
user behavior surveys, commute surveys, charging habit surveys, market trend analysis, and
vehicle performance evaluation. The Cooperative Partners are considering launching the “New
Energy Passenger Vehicle Drivers Vehicle Use Behavior Survey” and other research projects
soon.
3. Training of New Energy Vehicle Personnel: Both Cooperative Partners will send a number of
senior visiting scholars to each other. Each party will provide the visiting scholars with
conveniences in terms of office space and information resources. The trainees will be
researchers in the ZEV/new energy vehicle policy area, who as visiting scholars will study
relevant theories, methodologies, and models. The two parties will also cooperate to provide
systematic training to personnel from new energy vehicle-related Chinese government agencies,
manufacturers, and academic and research institutions.
4. Exchange of ZEV/New Energy Vehicle-Related Information: Both parties will regularly provide
each other with information about updated ZEV/new energy vehicle policies and regulations,
new standards and codes, new technology trends, new products and market sales volumes,
charging infrastructure and other related information from their respective host countries.
5. Funding Sources and Management
The research and operation funding sources for the proposed China–U.S. ZEV Policy Lab are
envisioned as follows:
 Project-based research funding will be raised by each Cooperative Partner. Each partner
should support the funding requests of the other partner. Funds raised by each
Cooperative Partner will be distributed by the party that raised the funds in support of the
joint work of the China-U.S. ZEV Policy Lab. Funding will be allocated subject to the
limitations of applicable laws, if any (Allocation principles should be determined before
the funding is received in support of the joint projects of the ZEV Policy Lab). Funding
sources may include government agencies, private foundations, and Board of Advisors
member companies. Any funding obligations between the Cooperative Partners will be the
subject of separate and distinct research funding agreement(s) signed by both Cooperative
Partners and will include all applicable financial obligations, intellectual property
publication, confidentiality and export control provisions that are not included in this
MOU.
 The daily office expenses of the China–U.S. ZEV Policy Lab(s) and compensation for
management personnel will be the individual responsibility of each party to the MOU.
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6. Duration, Extension, and Amendment

Duration. This MOU shall remain in force for five (5) years from the date of the last
signature. Either party may terminate this MOU by providing six (6) months advance
written notice to the other participant.

Extension and Renewal. The parties may extend or renew this MOU by agreement,
confirmed in a written amendment signed by each participant’s authorized signatory.

Amendment. No amendment of the terms of this MOU will be effective unless made
in writing and signed by each party’s authorized signatory.
7. General Matters

Public Announcement. Both parties agree to coordinate with each other when making
public announcement, concerning this MOU, or regarding negotiations conducted with a
view of entering into a subsequent binding agreement.

Confidentiality, Intellectual Property, and Export Control. Both parties agree there is not a
need to insert provisions into this MOU to address confidential information, intellectual
property, or export control laws at this time because the activities contemplated under this
MOU do not call for such provisions. In the event the need to insert clauses into this MOU
to address any of these issues does arise, this MOU will be amended to include such clauses,
as permitted under Article 6 above.

Notices. The parties will give all notices under this MOU in writing. All
communications will be sent to the addresses set forth below or to such other address
designated by the participants by written notice. Notices are effective upon receipt.
For UC DAVIS:
Yunshi Wang
Director, ITS-Davis’ China
Center for Energy and
Transportation
2005 Academic Surge
Davis, CA 95616, USA
Phone: (916) 612-8719
Email: y u n w a n g @ u c d a v i s . e d u
With copy to:
International Agreement Specialist
Office of Research
UC Davis
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1850 Research Park, Suite 300
Davis, CA 95618
Tel: (530) 752-9482
Email: carreed@ucdavis.edu
CATARC:
Yonghe Huang
China Automotive Technology and Research Center
No.68, East Xianfeng Road,
Dongli District,
Tianjin，300300 China
Tel: 022 84379388
Fax: 022-24370843
email: huangyonghe@catarc.ac.cn
With copy to:
Haifeng Fang
China Automotive Technology and Research Center
No.68, East Xianfeng Road,
Dongli District,
Tianjin，300300 China
Tel: 022 84379392
Fax: 022-24370843
email: fanghaifeng@catarc.ac.cn

Non-Binding Nature. This MOU is not legally binding on either party, but rather is a
broad statement of understanding which expresses the Cooperative Partners’ sincere
desire and intent to work collaboratively together toward the establishment of the China–
U.S. ZEV Policy Lab. This MOU does not give any person who is not a party to it any
rights to enforce any of its provisions and each party will bear its own costs relative to
participation in this MOU.

Authorized Signatories. Each part y represents that the individuals signing this
MOU have the authority to sign on its behalf in the capacity indicated.
Having read the present Memorandum of Understanding, and being fully aware of the content and
scope of each and every one of its clauses, the parties hereby affix their signatures to the present
document.
The present Memorandum of Understanding is signed on September 7, 2014, in both Chinese and
English, with the two languages’ texts being equally effective.
Signed for and on behalf of:
Signed for and on behalf of:
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CHINA AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY
AND RESEARCH CENTER
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA, ON BEHALF OF ITS
DAVIS CAMPUS
By: __________________________
Zhixin Wu
Deputy Director
By: _____________________________
Linda P.B. Katehi
Chancellor
Date: ________________________
Date: ___________________________
Reviewed by:
By: ______________________________
Yunshi Wang
Director
ITS-Davis’ China Center for
Energy and Transportation,
Date: ____________________________
By: ______________________________
Dan Sperling
Professor and Director
UC Davis Institute
of Transportation Studies
Date: ____________________________
By: ______________________________
Anthony Eggert
Executive Director
UC Davis Policy Institute for Energy,
Environment, and the Economy
Date: _____________________________