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News on the Auto Industry in China

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China’s Houdini returns

Will Faraday Future now deliver – having finally gone public on Nasdaq?
Jul 30, 2021 (WiC 551)

Many people have tried to sum up Chinese entrepreneur Jia Yueting over the course of a colourful and tumultuous career that’s seen him bankrupt one firm after another. In 2016, a tech journalist famously called Jia and his electric vehicle (EV) ...

Kicking the toxic habit

SVOLT debuts an EV battery that’s cobalt-free
Jul 30, 2021 (WiC 551)

Few would disagree that electric vehicles represent the future of driving. BloombergNEF, a researcher, reckons that global sales of zero-emission cars will jump from 4% of the market in 2020 to a whopping 70% by 2040. But to get to that number ...

Lei Jun’s big choice

Is Xiaomi set to work with BYD to make EVs?
Jun 25, 2021 (WiC 546)

The big beasts of China’s tech world have all forged alliances in the electric vehicle (EV) sector with one notable exception: Xiaomi. The Hong Kong-listed group is best known as a smartphone manufacturer but it has ambitions to become an EV ...

Seeing is believing

LiDAR firm raises $300 million after shelving IPO
Jun 18, 2021 (WiC 545)

“LiDAR is a fool’s errand. Anyone relying on LiDAR is doomed. Doomed!” So said Elon Musk in 2019, dismissing a technology that maps out environments like radar or sonar, but with light waves instead (LiDAR is short for light detection and ...

Buffett to profit as BYD lists its chip unit
May 21, 2021 (WiC 541)

When BYD listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2002, its main focus was rechargeable batteries for mobile phones. Investor enthusiasm was limited and it was only when Warren Buffett bought into the company at the height of the global ...

Electric carmaker hit by a public relations debacle
May 7, 2021 (WiC 539)

If a female journalist tries to extract confidential information from a company employee source, should the staff member be fired if he replies: “I’d like to ask your advice about something as well. Is your sex life harmonious? Have your ...

Shanghai’s drive-thru

Why the Shanghai Auto Show was a landmark event for the car industry
Apr 30, 2021 (WiC 538)

This month’s Shanghai car show has taken top billing as the biggest gathering in the industry since the onset of the pandemic. Organisers this year were pleased simply to welcome back visitors to the 10-day exhibition, albeit in carefully ...

Manning the batteries

Oil major joins China’s EV race with NIO partnership
Apr 23, 2021 (WiC 537)

If there’s one thing that can be confidently said about China’s development over the past few decades, it’s that change happens at lightning speed. The country typically achieves whatever milestone is under consideration far quicker than ...

Hoarding reserves

CATL readies new cobalt deal
Apr 23, 2021 (WiC 537)

Cobalt is found in almost all of the lithium-ion batteries that power smartphones, laptops and electric cars today. An element commonly found in copper or nickel mines, it is scarce but toxic. And even as scientists work on new formulas that ...

Geely hits EV accelerator

Li Shufu gets vocal about how he’ll drive China’s electric car revolution
Mar 5, 2021 (WiC 530)

The old saying that actions speak louder than words is one that Geely would have done well to remember in recent years. The ambitious carmaker has found itself backtracking on two of its biggest promises. The first was made in 2015, when ...

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