Etiqueta: Europe

This is the first of a monthly series about China’s MIIT list that unveils upcoming vehicles long before their official launch. Today, with cars from Baojun, iCar, Leapmotor, Toyota, and Voyah. Huawei is ever-present, supplying motors and software to almost everybody. There’s a truck too, and an H8 motorbike.  What is the MIIT list? Every […]

China uses subsidies extensively to take a leading role in the global markets of green-tech products such as battery electric vehicles and wind turbines. Against the background of the current EU investigations into Chinese subsidies in these sectors, this article takes a careful look at the Chinese subsidy system and provides new data on direct government subsidies to leading Chinese producers of electric cars and wind turbines. Extensive government support has allowed Chinese companies to scale up rapidly, to dominate the Chinese market and to expand into foreign markets. The article concludes that the EU should use its strong bargaining power due to the single market to induce the Chinese government to abandon the most harmful subsidies.

BYD is suffering its first serious scare and is seeing its success falter. The Chinese giant of electric cars that not long ago surpassed Tesla in sales has

China dominated the Munich Auto Show, but the locals could take some comfort from the debuts of BMW’s next-generation Neue Klasse technology, and a new Mercedes.

In the latest round of EURO NCAP safety testing, the BYD Dolphin Surf (aka Seagull) scored the maximum 5 star rating (along with the Nio Firefly, Hyundai Ionic 9, smart #5 and MINI Cooper). Although 5-star ratings have become an expectation, they are by no means guaranteed. The BMW 1 Series, Toyota Urban Cruiser, Suzuki e Vitara, MG3 and Citroen C5 Aircross all came up short to score 4 stars. However, when watching the crash test videos of the Dolphin Surf, it is particularly impressive how well it did, considering its size and short crumple zones.

The rivalry between BYD and Stellantis is intensifying with a recent dispute centering on conflicting claims about EV sales performance, market positioning,

I previous wrote about BYD’s sales transition in China, with the new Sealion 06 poised to replace their previous Song Plus model at Ocean dealerships. As anticipated, the Sealion 06 sales took off in its first month to become BYD’s second best-selling model, the best-selling model in the Sealion family, and one of the best-selling vehicles in China overall. However, new reports of an order backlog indicate limited supply.

Electric-car maker BYD Co. objected to comments Stellantis NV’s chief executive officer made about the company’s Chinese partner getting traction in Europe, taking the unusual step of issuing a press release comparing sales results.

BYD plans to bring its so-called “Flash Charging” to Europe, transferring up to 1,000 kW via CCS. In China, the system works by plugging in two cables