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News on the Auto Industry in China

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Into the driving seat?

Huawei bids for business in driverless technology, as 5G future beckons
Jun 19, 2020 (WiC 500)

Huawei has said time and again that it will never make cars. But that hasn’t stopped it pitching for business in the trillion-dollar market for next-generation vehicles. As the telecom giant’s rotating chairman Eric Xu Zhijun put it: “70% ...

Who’s in charge?

Electric vehicle battery makers BYD and CATL battle for supremacy
Jun 12, 2020 (WiC 499)

The rivalry between Airbus and Boeing is one of the most determined in corporate history. Over the years, they have swapped places as the market leader and traded jabs over the role of military contracts or government subsidies in each other’s ...

Signs of a pickup

China’s carmakers hope the worst is over after an awful quarter
May 22, 2020 (WiC 496)

In the US they are known as ‘cowboy Cadillacs’. In China they’re called pikas. Owning a pickup is just about as American as apple pie, but in China pika has been a more derogatory term for someone who carts around supplies or basic ...

Charged dispute

XPENG accuses Tesla of bullying behaviour
May 15, 2020 (WiC 495)

Can rappers drive sales? In an unlikely collaboration, British family shoe brand Clarks has partnered with the Wu-Tang Clan, a hip-hop collective from Staten Island, for years. But in China last month it was Tesla that was getting the lyrical ...

A flexible factory

Batteries, cars and face masks – and BYD is moving into chips too
Apr 24, 2020 (WiC 492)

Warren Buffett is considered to be one of the world’s most successful investors. The Berkshire Hathaway chairman is also a very savvy marketer. Since buying more than $1 billion of Coca-Cola stock in 1988, the 89 year-old has not stopped ...

A breath of fresh air

Electric car firm says new air-conditioning unit is as good as an N95 mask
Apr 17, 2020 (WiC 491)

Who would have guessed just a few months ago that face masks would become a daily topic for discussion? From east to west, availability is a key concern for people trying to protect themselves against the coronavirus. So perhaps it should come as ...

Tesla’s Chinese journey

Musk’s battery partnership with CATL signals his long term vision for China
Mar 13, 2020 (WiC 486)

When Donald Trump was fanning Washington’s trade war with Beijing in 2018 and beseeching American manufacturers to bring their operations back onto home soil, Elon Musk was heading in the opposite direction. On July 12 that year, Musk parked ...

Passage to India

Chinese carmakers eye Indian expansion
Feb 28, 2020 (WiC 484)

When India’s biennial Auto Show opened in New Delhi this month, it was emblazoned with a ‘3 Cs’ tagline: “co-create, co-exist, celebrate”. But the organisers should have probably added a fourth C: China. For while the overall number ...

Finally to marry

Geely Automobile plans Volvo merger
Feb 21, 2020 (WiC 483)

The place where the Covid-19 virus originated – a Wuhan seafood market where illegal sales of wild animals also took place – presents an image of China that most in the country would rather leave behind. The speedy response of some of its ...

Volkswagen’s 2020 China EV sales to beat Tesla’s?
Jan 31, 2020 (WiC 481)

It may have happened right at the start of 2020 but one of the defining moments for the electric vehicle (EV) sector this year will almost certainly be Elon Musk ‘dad dancing’ his way around a stage in Shanghai. The Tesla founder was in ...

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