i'm chris of kober and this is d w business welcome. serving the biggest auto market of the world the beijing motor show kicked off in the chinese capital it comes as the skyrocketing growth of new car sales appear to be slowing for the first time still chinese than sooners drove more than twenty nine million new vehicles off lots around the people's republic last year chinese drivers love their s.u.v.s which make up around forty percent of sales but electric cars also booming they jumped by more than fifty percent last year to seven hundred eighty thousand units now that may be a fraction of total new car sales but it still makes china the world leader in the evy he told business and with beijing's thailand quote us for electric cars sales are likely to increase further german manufacturers want a piece of that pie although having been slow in that he caught of element in you had a false flag and has even made the china business a freestanding unit within the company. and d.s. is exactly where he wants to be leading vokes wagon and just