Automundo China

Once an auto underdog, the country’s current dominance of the global electric-vehicle market says a lot about why it brims with confidence in other fields.

BYD Shenzhen has 9,200 standard loading spaces, covering an area equivalent to 20 football fields.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -A large dealer of Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD's cars in the eastern province of Shandong has gone out of business with at least 20 of its stores found to be deserted or shut, government-owned media reported. The Jinan Times, which is owned by the government of the provincial capital of Jinan, reported on Wednesday that Qiancheng Holdings, which ran BYD stores, had fallen into difficulties, affecting more than 1,000 consumers who were still owed warranty coverage and after-sales services. The affected stores are spread across four cities, including Jinan and Weifang, the newspaper said, citing visits it had made.

Prosecutors accuse carmaker and two contractors of bringing Chinese workers to Brazil under false pretences and keeping them in ‘minimum comfort and hygiene conditions’

The Sealion 07 EV has been renamed Sealion 7 in Guatemala, similar to BYD's approach in other overseas markets.

Indian auto production could grind to a halt within days due to Chinese export restrictions on rare earth magnets, according to company executives and documents from industry groups, which want the government to lobby Beijing to relax the curbs.

More than 100 global brands are linked to a scheme that ships Xinjiang ethnic minorities to work in factories thousands of miles away

The fight to secure Chinese auto licensees is expanding quickly