Yang Jian

Beijing is initiating intense negotiations with Brussels, seeking to settle ongoing disputes over additional tariffs on China-made EVs that the EU will finalize next month, China’s Ministry of Commerce said.

Toyota SinoHytec Fuel Cell, a partnership between Toyota and Chinese fuel cell system developer SinoHytec, opened a plant in Beijing to build fuel cell systems for trucks and buses. 

China’s largest EV maker has struck a deal with Uber to provide 100,000 full electric vehicles to the global ride-hailing giant. 

China was further ahead of Japan in vehicle exports for the first half of 2024 after overtaking its Asian neighbor as the world’s top vehicle exporter in 2023, according to numbers disclosed by industry groups in the two countries.

The factory has capacity to assemble 180,000 seats a year and will also serve as an export hub for other markets in Asia Pacific.

The Chinese government, seeking to boost vehicle demand, has raised subsidies significantly under a scrappage program it rolled out for passenger vehicles in late April.

Volkswagen Group, looking to accelerate product development, plans to develop three plug-in hybrids and two full-electric vehicles in China with local partner SAIC.  

SAIC disclosed plans to build EVs in Europe in response to anti-subsidy tariffs on China-made EVs by the European Commission.

VW, Audi, Porsche, BMW and Mercedes will compete for the spotlight with BYD and other Chinese brands at the 10-day Beijing auto show,

The Mercedes AMG GT 63 S E Performance and the all-electric version of the G Class, Mercedes Benz' venerable off-roader, are set to debut in China this month.

The Chinese EV startup partly owned by VW Group is set to expand into Germany despite anti-subsidy tariffs the EU has threatened to impose on China-made EVs.

Chinese-made electric vehicles will capture a quarter of Europe’s EV market this year, up from 19.5 percent in 2023, despite tariffs the European Union is likely to levy on such EV imports, Transport and Environment said in a report.

Polestar 3 production, delayed last year for software issues, has started in the southwest China city of Chengdu, the high performance, electric-vehicle maker said this week.

Cariad, the software unit of Volkswagen Group, appointed Frank Han, previously chief software architect at Changan Automobile, CEO of its China subsidiary Cariad China, effective March 1. 

The deal will accelerate BYD'S expansion in Europe.