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China's largest auto show opened in Beijing with the biggest names showing off their latest electric vehicles (EVs), underlining how the world's largest auto market is already in an all-electric state of mind, and isn't looking back. The last thing China needs is more electric cars crowding a market, driving down prices at the expense of profit. Exporting that overcapacity, however, has brought EV makers to authorities' attention.

President of BYD Europe talks about the firms’s efforts to expand into Europe, how the lack of infrastructure is impeding EV sales, and how plug-in hybrids prepare the way for all-electric cars

Can these compete with low-priced EVs from homegrown brands?

We live in a golden age of automotive lighting. It’s a fascinating time, with technologies like LEDs and new manufacturing techniques allowing for shapes and styles and functions never before possible back in the dark (well, dim) ages of two shapes of sealed beams and plastic bezels. Nissan – in partnership with Dong Feng – […]

Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) is exhibiting at the 2024 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition to showcase its efforts in China, centered around intelligence, electrification, and diversification, as part of the transformation into a mobility company. The exhibit also highlights the company's creation of new value through products and services tailored to customer needs.

A new Toyota Corolla rival from BYD is due in Chinese showrooms later this year with a circa-$50,000 price.

India's Tata Motors plans to import its Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) luxury electric cars under a new government policy that lowers import taxes for companies agreeing to set up local manufacturing, two Indian government sources said.

The domestic vehicle market was estimated to have expanded by just 6% to 25.18m units last year