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Chinese automotive conglomerate that owns or holds stakes in Volvo, Polestar, Lynk & Co, and other global brands, making combustion and electric vehicles.
BYD will grow its car-carrier fleet from 8 to 18 ships by 2029, according to shipping industry reports cited by Rest of World. One industry estimate puts the shipping saving over chartering at up to 40% a car.
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Chinese brands make up 20 of about 60 exhibitors at the Paris Motor Show, double the 2024 count, Korea JoongAng Daily reported. Schmidt Automotive Research put their European sales share at 10.7% in the second quarter, up from 5.7%.
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Renault has dropped plans to supply North America from its Busan plant and is recasting it as an export hub for Europe and Latin America. The Korea JoongAng Daily links the exit to US curbs on Chinese-linked vehicles.
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Ford CEO Jim Farley says Europe is too late to stop Chinese carmakers, which sold one in seven Western European battery EVs in early 2026. He wants Washington to take its time before letting them sell in the US.
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Regulators recalled roughly 4.3 million cars because an emergency release was coloured to disappear. Labels are the fix until 2027, when the hardware has to change.
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Geely's new battery charges from 10% to 97% in 8 minutes 40 seconds on 2.2-megawatt chargers, 20 seconds faster than BYD's Blade. Its larger contest is with CATL, supplier of 63% of Geely's batteries and twice as profitable in the first half as 15 listed carmakers combined.
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The US transportation secretary's 8 September letter objects to Ford's 66-34 joint venture with Geely in Spain. European lawmakers are drafting a law that would make a capped Chinese stake the price of entry.
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The Galaxy TT starts at 129,900 yuan with 800-volt charging on every trim and LiDAR on four of the five, and the launch price came in 16,000 yuan below the presale sticker Geely set for it a month earlier.
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Seoul Economic Daily reports that AI startups increasingly annualize a single month because usage billed in tokens does not qualify as recurring revenue. OpenAI books net of partner shares; Anthropic books gross.
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The second-generation Spring comes in under 20,000 euros before incentives, and what gets it there is a decades-old Slovenian plant with low local wages plus a development cycle Renault says it cut to under two years.
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Management is confronting workers on one side and investors on the other, and the Seeking Alpha analyst who says China is still the key holds no Volkswagen at all, only small longs in Geely and Chery.
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The Ojai vans picking up riders in San Francisco and Phoenix are built in Ningbo and land under a 127.5 percent tariff, a cost a fleet operator can spread over years of paid trips and a dealership cannot.
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Robert Lee puts solid-state in phones about ten years before cars. A 12 GWh plant at Dunkirk and Chinese pilot lines due in 2027 are built on the opposite reading.
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Chinese carmakers say circuit boards and ceramic capacitors are 20% to 30% short and more than three times last year's price. Geely says that halts assembly rather than just costing more.
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SAMR ordered 2.98 million Teslas fixed with warning stickers and a window-dropping software update. Hidden electronic exterior handles are banned in China from 2027.
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The first hardware disclosure from the leading robotaxi operator turns an autonomy pitch into a supply-chain document, with 20x compute growth in eight years and redundancy it calls non-negotiable.
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A Forbes account puts the Zeekr-built Ojai at about $38,000 before more than 125 percent in stacked duties. Waymo is buying in volume anyway, which is a statement about assumed margin.
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Prestige Imports alleges Polestar declined the Commerce authorization Volvo won and never appealed the denial, testing whether state franchise law follows an OEM out of a market.
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