Pricing and Incentives Wars Restart in China New Year Sales Push
XPeng, NIO, and Tesla all now offer zero percent interest for five years while Yipai lowers prices. China's new energy vehicle price wars are set to hot up all over…
GAC and Huawei To Create New Automotive Brand
First model will cost around RMB 300,000 and feature a "new architecture and technologies". GAC Group has confirmed plans to create a new automotive brand in collaboration with Huawei focused…
Battery Swapping Grows In Popularity As Nio-Chery and SAIC-CATL Alliances Make Headlines
Chery set to reveal two Nio battery-swap compatible models in Q3 while SAIC inks agreement with CATL. Developments in battery swapping look set to steal the headlines in 2025 with…
Chinese Brands Smash New Energy Sales Records In End Of Year Push
Almost all brands see increases with many hitting record monthly sales in end-of-year push. Chinese new energy vehicle (BEV, EREV, PHEV) sales benefitted from the annual end-of-year sales push to…
NIO ET9 Launched As Ultra-High Tech Flagship To Celebrate 10th Anniversary
Flagship ‘landjet’ targets Maybach with focus on luxury, tech, safety, autonomous driving, and silky smooth ride. The Nio ET9 has been unveiled at the brand’s annual NIO Day event in…
CATL Unveils Two New Swappable Batteries and Future Plans
The world's largest vehicle battery manufacturer started their battery swap business three years ago and is ready to expand. CATL, the world's largest automotive battery maker, has revealed two standardised…
AVATR closes RMB 11 Billion from Series C Funding Round Ahead of Planned IPO
Brand is a collaboration between battery maker CATL, tech company Huawei, and car maker Changan Chinese car maker AVATR has raised RMB 11 billion ($1.5 billion) in a series C…
Record NEV sales galore in October as BYD crosses half a million threshold
Nearly all brands see deliveries increase in October, but absolutely nobody can keep pace with BYD. As predicted, October's NEV (new energy vehicle) sales in China hit new heights almost…
October’s Regulatory Filing Reveals
Every month, China's Ministry of Industry and Information and Technology releases the filings of cars that have been approved for Chinese sales, often leaking models before the brands have launched…
Chinese NEV makers way off sales targets for 2024
Despite a booming year for NEV sales in China, most Chinese NEV makers will fall well short of their 2024 sales targets according to research by CarNewsChina.com. Despite NEVs now…