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China's smart NEV market has been dominated by local brands, but global auto brands have caught up, said Deutsche Bank.

Auto Shanghai 2025 leaves no doubt – China has become the epicenter of the electric automotive world. While Europe is hustling, the Americans are hustling, and the Japanese are quietly manufacturing in China, Shanghai is buzzing with the electric future. It is now the center of the automotive world. And Europe is only third, right after the USA.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China's annual auto shows have become the world's premier showcase for the rise of ever-cheaper, high-tech electric vehicles from domestic brands in the world's biggest car market. But the Shanghai auto show opened on Wednesday amid industry-wide uncertainty over how the U.S.-China trade war could sap demand and upend supply chains as about 70 automakers launched more than 100 new models into a crowded market with more losers than winners. Automakers also wrestled with a Chinese government crackdown, announced last week, on the marketing of smart-driving systems that many industry executives view as the next technological battleground here.

The new Electra-GS is being described by one company executive as a design manifesto

In our modern, turbocharged, reality we are rushing towards an exotic new future.  A future in which vehicles are powered by new, sustainable sources of energy; where some cars drive themselves or where ‘hybrid vehicles’ merge the merits of multiple modes of transport.  With unprecedented speed we are driving, pedaling and in some cases even flying into a brave new world.

Chinese electric vehicle-maker BYD and its local rivals have dramatically disrupted the automotive market, leading to a significant decline in sales for major global brands like Ford, Nissan, GM, and Honda in China. This pattern is expected to extend to scooters and motorbikes, currently dominated by Japanese brands, as electrification efforts lag behind market growth.

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Plugin vehicles in China once again ended the year with a record month, growing by 46% year over year (YoY) in the last month of the year to a record 1,379,000 units. Full electrics ... [continued]

You may be surprised which familiar American makes and models actually hail from China

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market, with plugins scoring 876,000 sales (in a 1.76-million-unit overall market). That’s up 23% year over year (YoY). Looking deeper at the numbers, growth ... [continued]

Chinese brands place a high value on design and in-cabin technology and are laser focused on keeping cars affordable