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News on the Auto Industry in China

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Trade war with the US takes its toll, although exports hold up overall
Sep 7, 2018 (WiC 423)

One of the first victims of China’s trade spat with the United States was the crew of the Peak Pegasus, a cargo ship loaded with $20 million worth of American soybeans. The 229-metre bulk carrier was scheduled to unload its cargo at the ...

The great soccer scam

Buffett’s BYD and Arsenal football club are fooled by a fraudster
Jul 27, 2018 (WiC 419)

Most fans know the north London football club Arsenal as the Gunners but some supporters prefer the Gooners, a nickname said to derive from a group of hooligans that wreaked havoc in the 1980s. This second name seemed more appropriate this ...

Why a 1% stake in Volkswagen’s China JV offers Audi a new route
Jul 6, 2018 (WiC 416)

It’s an all too familiar tale and one that WiC has relayed many times over the years. A company’s long-standing boss is arrested and thrown in jail for suspected fraud, leaving his firm with crippling fines for its misdemeanours. But this ...

Primed for production?

Evergrande deal gives electric carmaker Faraday a new lease of life
Jul 6, 2018 (WiC 416)

I think we just became a real car company” was the message from Elon Musk last Sunday as Tesla finally hit its target of making 5,000 of its ‘mass market’ Model 3s in a week. He was celebrating in an email to staff after longstanding ...

Driven to a crisis

Didi Chuxing rocked by passenger’s murder
May 18, 2018 (WiC 409)

A wit on Twitter recently coined the phrase “Chabuduo-wellian” to describe artificial intelligence’s security usages in China (chabuduo means half-baked). The term was inspired by New York Times technology writer Paul Mozur’s ...

Betting on a comeback

Big names like Tencent and Evergrande prepared to take a punt on LeEco
Apr 27, 2018 (WiC 406)

If hard times reveal true friends, there is no better time to cement loyalties than when people run into financial trouble. It is well-documented that Tung Chee-hwa’s shipping line stayed afloat in the 1980s with timely support from the ...

Ownership changes could trigger big Tesla move
Apr 20, 2018 (WiC 405)

Tesla’s boss Elon Musk has come round to the view that human workers are underrated – a consequence of his having endured multiple challenges getting his automated production line to build his company’s new Model 3 car. It makes for an ...

Into the fast lane

Battery maker CATL jumps IPO queue to fund production expansion
Apr 13, 2018 (WiC 404)

Coming after a year of frenetic fundraising in 2017, China’s IPO market saw far fewer new listings in the first quarter this year – suggesting that Beijing’s perennial balancing act between pursuing growth and managing financial risks had ...

Ones for the future

More electric car start-ups
Apr 13, 2018 (WiC 404)

China has no shortage of electric vehicle (EV) brands and they all seem to have seized on the word ‘future’ in their marketing. But what’s the line-up in the EV sector in the present day? One of the earliest manufacturers to showcase a ...

Death of a salesman

Tencent seems set to take the wheel in second-hand car shake-up
Apr 6, 2018 (WiC 403)

The suits are loud and the hard sell never stops until customers open their wallets. Such is the stereotype of the second-hand car salesman (always a man) in the Western world. It is an image stuck firmly in the 1970s, when check and plaid ruled ...

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