Huawei and China Southern Power Grid have signed a major cooperation agreement that could reshape how grid equipment suppliers compete. The deal points to deeper integration of digital technology into power infrastructure and a shift in the rules for vendors.
Xpeng has launched the MONA L05, the third model in a sub-brand that now accounts for more than half its monthly sales. With two of its four new cars this year coming from MONA, the company faces a decision about whether to spin it off.
Dongfeng's electric off-road brand M-Hero has launched the X700, its first city-oriented SUV with a car-like body, softer off-road hardware and a focus on space, comfort and smart features. It is trying to challenge the Fang Cheng Bao Tai 7, which dominates China's urban off-road segment.
A Wuhan laser-equipment maker plans to fund a 400-million-yuan acquisition largely with leftover IPO cash, paying a 532% valuation premium to buy into lithium-battery manufacturing. The deal shows how Chinese equipment suppliers are buying their way onto the battery supply chain as the lithium cycle swings.
As more Chinese cars ship with assisted-driving systems, the suppliers behind them are winning record numbers of production contracts yet struggling to turn those wins into profit. Tianzhu Vision's experience shows why scale alone does not fix the economics of the business.
Photos circulating since around October 22 show two charging guns at a BYD megawatt fast-charging station bound together with an iron chain, even though the unit's lights stayed green. The incident has become a proxy debate about who manages China's fast-growing public charging network.
Volkswagen is reversing decades of one-way technology flow, using its Hefei R&D center to develop software and platforms that will feed back into Europe. The shift was highlighted during a visit by Germany's president to the VCTC facility on October 27.
Xiaomi has built a roughly 150-yuan AI hardware kit aimed at ordinary people, letting them create a personal AI device with plain-language prompts rather than code. The pitch is vibe coding for the rest of us — and a test of whether cheap, playful hardware can carry AI into daily life.
At the 200,000–300,000 yuan price band, new Chinese EVs now benchmark Xiaomi rather than Tesla. Executives at Chery's Luxeed and Volkswagen's Anhui unit openly compare their cars to Xiaomi's SU7 and YU7, a sign of how fast the marketing reference point has moved.
At the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference in Beijing, industry talk shifted from raw specifications to safety, as regulators make crash-testing a precondition for launch rather than a final checkpoint. The change reframes smart driving as a vehicle-road-cloud system problem, not a longer feature list.
A week of Chinese new-car launches saw FAW-Volkswagen's Jetta brand enter the electric era with the M6 sedan, priced from 79,800 to 99,800 yuan, while BYD's Seagull hatchback moved to a five-seat layout. Roewe also put a Doubao voice assistant into its new 07 sedan.
A Xpeng product manager's casual use of a slang term for older people set off a storm online, and a senior executive's blunt response kept it burning. The episode has become a case study in how far youthful car branding can push before it insults the buyers.
Audi has named Jeff Zhang, a former Chery executive, as its first Chinese national president for China, effective November 1. It is the fourth leadership change in five years for a brand that is losing ground in the world's biggest electric-car market.
GAC Aion's new Ray7 launches with Huawei's DriveONE EMB, a fully electric brake-by-wire system that removes the hydraulic fluid Bosch has long dominated. It is the clearest sign yet that Huawei wants a bigger slice of the parts business, not just software.
Alipay has become the latest Chinese internet giant to plug its services into Tesla's in-car system, following WeChat and ByteDance's Doubao AI model. Elon Musk's carmaker is turning its dashboard into a platform for China's biggest apps.
Volvo's China revenue fell nearly 50% in Q3 2026 even as its new-energy vehicle sales jumped 104% to 20,100 units. The split reveals a brutal price war squeezing foreign automakers in the world's largest car market.
A young product manager's use of dismissive slang at the Xpeng MONA L05 presale on October 15 has reignited a debate over whether the automaker is spending too much energy on attention and too little on the cars themselves.
Chinese automaker Chery has built CheryMind, an AI system formed from decades of manufacturing and engineering knowledge. It shows a concrete path for a traditional carmaker turning factory know-how into software.
Tesla sold 48.65 million? No — 48.65 thousand? Its third-quarter volume held near last year's level and revenue stayed around $28 billion, but net profit fell 43% to $787 million. Model 3 and Model Y still carry the business, so the search for a second profit engine is getting urgent.
BMW opened a voluntary severance package in late 2026 and roughly 40,000 employees rushed the internal compensation portal hard enough to knock it offline. The offer, with buyout figures reaching about 4.87 million yuan for some veteran staff, is a sharper read on German industrial downsizing than any slogan.
Fuel motorcycle sales in China have turned upward again, with exports powering double-digit growth even as the domestic market slowly repairs itself after years of restrictive rules and shifting tastes.
Chinese regulators have told automakers to stop letting drivers recline zero-gravity seats while a car is moving. The rule exposes a gap between glossy advertising and fine-print warnings that has left safety costs with consumers.
Continental's spun-off automotive arm Aumovio will pay BMW €350 million to settle a brake-system warranty dispute, a sum larger than its first-half operating profit. It is now betting on a new satellite-camera contract with a leading Chinese carmaker.
Zhu Huarong has stepped down as chairman of Changan Automobile, with Zhao Fei taking over a major Chinese state-owned carmaker squeezed by falling sales and thin profits. The handover comes as the company pushes electric and smart vehicles in an increasingly brutal price war.
A 200-strong Renault engineering team in China, known as ACDC, is changing how the French automaker develops vehicles, cutting costs and speeding up launches. The experiment reflects a wider shift as global carmakers look to Chinese software and electric-vehicle expertise.
Luxeed, Huawei's smart-car brand built with Chery, has entered a government list of proposed new vehicle manufacturers. The listing marks a step toward independent production status, though it still identifies the brand as a Chery group member.
Chinese home-appliance giant Midea is pouring resources into industrial and service robots, hoping a trillion-yuan market can become its next growth curve. Analysts caution that flashy demos have yet to translate into large-scale commercial deployment.
China's carmakers shipped over five million vehicles abroad in the first half of 2026, yet their Hong Kong shares fell. Meanwhile, engineers quietly swap real-world testing for simulation, and a little blue light becomes the symbol of self-driving.
Chinese automakers are replacing thousands of physical durability tests with computer simulation to shorten development cycles, and regulators and engineers are now asking where the shortcuts end. A door-handle test split between real and virtual runs has become the symbol of the debate.
Among a batch of stocks that hit daily limits in China, three low-valued names stood out — two from electronics and auto parts. The pattern hints at money rotating back into overlooked suppliers rather than headline EV brands.
In China's fast-growing energy storage market, developers are learning that the cheapest battery cell is not always the cheapest plant. A slightly more expensive cell can cut total station costs if it delivers proven efficiency, lifespan and uptime.
A small blue lamp that signals a car is driving itself became an unlikely status symbol in China, then a regulatory headache. Its rise shows how visible cues shape trust in smart driving.
A Chinese EV brand's giant airport billboard in Zurich becomes a window on 16 years of Chinese carmakers pushing into Europe — from bargain imports to premium names competing on design and software.
China's Dongfeng is quietly pushing ammonia as an alternative fuel for engines, framing it less as a comeback than as insurance against a harsh market. The move comes as trade tensions with Europe over electric cars keep Chinese automakers guessing.
Alltron, the world's top maker of high-density circuit boards for cars, lost 191 million yuan in six months while its core margin fell to 2.8%. The Tesla supplier is still pushing a dual listing in Hong Kong and Shanghai.
Riders in China report that Didi taxi drivers can manually add fuel surcharges and highway tolls to bills, including on fully electric cabs and trips that never touched a toll road. Didi says the fees are legitimate options, but the amounts are typed in by drivers themselves.
Chinese automotive-electronics maker RoadVoyage has changed hands, with a new investor taking control after four years under construction-equipment giant Zoomlion. The deal raises questions about where the in-car tech supplier goes next.
Two high-profile failures — a luxury Huawei-JAC sedan's brake bracket snapping in tests and a Chery SUV's rear axle tearing off in Malaysia — have overseas buyers asking whether Chinese cars are rushed to market.
China's passenger car retail sales fell 28% year-on-year in September 2026, the steepest monthly drop this year, as both gasoline and electric models slumped. Yet automakers held back from discounting, signaling a shift in how the world's largest car market competes.
After Chinese tennis star Zheng Qinwen won a title, Audi and tea chain Chagee both offered buy-one-get-one promotions. The brands' different follow-through reveals how promises turn into customer trust.
Chinese brands made up roughly 30% of the vehicle exhibitors at the 2026 Paris Motor Show, pushing into Europe's toughest market. Volkswagen's CEO called for European carmakers to band together as the competition arrives at their doorstep.
A testing mishap pushed Mercedes-Benz to halt deliveries for 12 weeks while it reworked safety validation. The episode shows how expensive credibility has become in the race toward automated driving.
A 2023 OMODA 5 in Malaysia lost its rear axle mid-drive, prompting Chery to recall 8,878 vehicles over weak welds on the rear suspension arm. The Chinese automaker apologized as it pushes hard into export markets.
A state broadcaster's investigation found tanker trucks in Shaanxi and Guizhou routinely hauling far more crude oil than their plates allow. One fleet of more than sixty vehicles ran overloaded for over two years, and dozens of safety inspection reports appear to be fabricated.
Three Maextro V800 luxury sedans suffered identical brake pedal bracket failures in a 100 km/h emergency-stop test. Owner clubs call it a safety defect; the brand frames the fix as a free upgrade, not a recall.
Beijing and Brussels have reached a preliminary understanding on hybrid vehicle trade, a sign that Chinese automakers can no longer rely on export growth alone to win Europe. The details remain vague, but the direction is clear.
A media outlet's emergency braking test broke the brake pedal bracket on three brand-new Maextro V800 luxury cars. The videos went viral, splitting opinion between those calling it a fatal design flaw and those calling the test unfair.
Porsche's mid-decade strategy drops sales from its core KPIs and targets wealthier buyers, aiming for a break-even point below 200,000 vehicles. It follows a first half of 2026 in which electrification failed to reverse falling revenue and weak profitability.
At the 2026 Paris Motor Show, 22 Chinese electric carmakers will appear together, pressing an advantage created by Europe's shrinking affordable segment. Stellantis' chairman noted Europe had 49 models under €15,000 in 2019; now only one remains.
China's National Day holiday kicked off a fourth-quarter sales push, with Tesla stores packed and discounts everywhere. Buyers are racing a year-end purchase-tax change that makes 2026 cars thousands of yuan pricier.
China holds the world's largest tungsten reserves yet its own output keeps falling, and tighter export controls are repricing the metal for carmakers, chipmakers and toolmakers worldwide.
At its capital markets day in Weissach, Porsche unveiled a strategy to shrink its workforce by 9,000 roles and refocus on brand, product and organisation. The German sports-car maker is betting that a leaner, more profitable company beats chasing volume.
In China's smart EV era, one vehicle is increasingly assembled by many partners — automakers, chip designers, software teams, data platforms, dealers and service networks. A new look at the AITO partnership asks what actually makes a brand grow when no single company builds the whole car.
China has poured billions into highway fast-charging, adding more big-power chargers in eight months than in all the years before. Yet holiday queues still stretch for hours, because peak demand outruns even the fastest build-out.
During Golden Week, China's highways turned into a stress test for electric cars, with queues of four hours at charging stations to save a few dollars. Plug-in hybrids and pure EVs are fighting over the same plugs.
During China's National Day holiday, Beijing mall showrooms for electric cars drew thin crowds and few special offers, while online launch perks did the persuading. Dealers say the old autumn buying rush no longer works the way it used to.
At a September industry forum, Chinese car executives stopped repeating optimistic slogans and admitted real problems: rushed development cycles, oversized batteries, and uneasy reliance on rivals' technology. The candor signals a market shifting from growth-at-any-cost to hard choices.
After years of gimmicks, in-car companion robots are suddenly everywhere in Chinese vehicles, from Xiaomi's rotating screen to Geely's Eva. The timing is no accident: cheaper AI chips, an anxious market and a fight over what makes a car feel alive.
During China's National Day holiday, electric-car owners plan routes around charger queues instead of traffic, treating range like inventory. The ritual reveals how charging habits, not just batteries, shape the country's busiest travel week.
Chinese automakers are increasingly building their own batteries or signing with second-tier suppliers, loosening CATL's grip on the world's largest EV market. The shift is reshaping who keeps the profits in electric cars.
September brought no broad recovery to China's car market, but the biggest automakers kept growing anyway. Competition is shifting from chasing new buyers to fighting over existing ones.
China's biggest motorcycle show drew 300,000 visitors and 7 billion online views, with 1,120 exhibitors and 3,100 models. Insiders say the industry now has money and attention — but still trails on brand, culture and premium engineering.
Volkswagen's glass-walled Dresden plant, once a showcase for the Phaeton, is closing as Germany buys record numbers of Chinese-made cars. The reversal captures how quickly the global auto trade has flipped.
GAC Group plans to issue shares worth 5.75 yuan each to acquire FAW's 50% stake in their Toyota joint venture, deepening the integration of Toyota's two Chinese partners. The move is a test of whether GAC can return to the fast lane after a bruising few years.
A senior Huawei executive argues that carmakers may spend more developing their own smart driving systems than buying them, urging stronger division of labor between automakers and suppliers.
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