Etiqueta: Changan

On June 7, the 2025 Chongqing International Auto Exhibition opened, with European media traveling to China to attend the event and visit Chinese automotive giant Changan Automobile.

China's major automakers and some new carmakers have pledged to shorten supplier payment terms amid concerns about supply chain security.

Chinese electric-vehicle makers led by BYD beat Tesla in the competition to produce affordable electric vehicles. Now, many of those same fierce competitors are pulling into the passing lane in the global race to produce self-driving cars.

BYD, already a clear leader in the Chinese auto market, has been accused of indulging in unfair competition with repeated price cuts and by forcing others to follow suit.

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) -Chinese electric-vehicle makers led by BYD beat Tesla in the competition to produce affordable electric vehicles. BYD shook up China’s smart-EV industry earlier this year by offering its “God’s Eye” driver-assistance package for free, undercutting the technology Tesla sells for nearly $9,000 in China. “With God’s Eye, Tesla's strategy starts to fall apart,” said Shenzhen-based BYD investor Taylor Ogan, an American who has owned several Teslas and driven BYD cars with God’s Eye, which he called more capable than Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” (FSD).

China's 1,000-mile EVs, such as those from BYD, are set to eliminate range anxiety, with more range than many of their Western rivals and at lower price points

Recently, the automotive industry has been in an uproar: Great Wall Motors' Chairman Wei Jianjun's statement "the Evergrande of the automotive industry already exists, it just hasn't exploded yet" instantly ignited public opinion. Although no names were mentioned, all eyes are on BYD, which has liabilities of 594.3 billion yuan. At the same time, BYD launched the largest price cut in history during the "618" shopping festival, with 22 models seeing discounts of up to 53,000 yuan, directly causing a major dip in the new energy vehicle sector. This move has made investors restless: on one hand, there's the overwhelming "Evergrande theory," and on the other, a fierce price war...

The figures come on the heels of China’s top industry regulator promising to strengthen efforts to rein in “involution-style” competition in the country’s auto industry.