Production of the Dongfeng Fengshen E30 EV, a small electric vehicle that debuted as the Donfeng EJo2 at the Shanghai Auto Show in 2011, will start in China in 2014. It will compete with the Roewe E50 EV that was launched on the Chinese car market in November 2012.

The Fengshen E30 EV debuted as the Dongfeng EJo2 on the Shanghai Auto Show in 2011, it changed name to Dongfeng EV1 in early 2012 and arrived at the April 2012 Beijing Auto Show as Fengshen E30. There’s also a stretched version called the Fengshen E30L.

This electric car comes equipped with a 10.5-kilowatt electric motor, can reach a top speed of 80 kilometers per hour (about 50 miles per hour) and a range of 110 to 180 kilometers (about 68 to 112 miles) from a single charge.

The price of the Fengshen E30 EV is yet to be known, but the Roewe E50 is priced at 134,900 yuan (about $21,600 US) after 100,000 yuan in government subsidies. The E30 is slightly smaller than the Reowe E50, and it’s likely to cost slightly less.

That assumes Dongfeng Motors actually does start manufacturing the Fengshen E30 EV. Dongfeng has a lot of experience rebadging other vehicles for the Chinese market, so perhaps the Chinese “Leaf” – officially called the Donfeng Nissan Venucia D50 – could provide the access point for mass producing EVs in that market by 2015.

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