A Bosch China executive says cars will never become a third space, pushing back on the idea that vehicles should compete with homes and offices. The remark lands as Chinese automakers load cabins with screens, seats and software.
FAW-Volkswagen has told staff it will not pay its annual BD bonus for 2025 or 2026, a payout that can make up 40 to 45 percent of total income. The move shows how hard the joint venture is squeezing costs as Chinese car buyers turn to electric brands.
BYD unveiled its ultra-luxury Yangwang Dingyao sedan in Abu Dhabi, alongside a limited "Shanhe Dingyun" edition with a brown-and-jade colour scheme and a 300,000 yuan deposit. The launch signals BYD's push into the executive flagship segment.
BYD's ultra-luxury Yangwang U9X recorded 503.17 km/h, the first time a production car has broken the 500 km/h barrier. The run underlines how Chinese automakers are using electric drive and vehicle engineering to chase performance records once owned by European brands.
A wave of Chinese carmakers — Li Auto, Xiaomi, Leapmotor, Xpeng — now advertise self-developed batteries. The fight is not over who makes the cells, but over who controls the pack, the software and the margin.
BMW Brilliance has begun a staffing cut across three Shenyang plants, with departing workers estimating 1,800 to 2,000 P-class production roles affected and a severance package of N+5 months. The move lands as foreign joint-venture carmakers lose ground in China's fast-shifting market.
Domestic brands now command nearly three-quarters of China's car market, and the foreign joint ventures that once dominated are being forced into painful self-rescue plans. Toyota and Audi are among those rewriting strategy as the old playbook stops working.
BYD reported October sales of 490,200 new energy vehicles, with overseas volume doubling year on year. Battery-electric sales rose 37.38% while plug-in hybrids fell 17.22%, and ten-month totals slipped 2.16% to 3.62 million.
A Munich showroom run by a Chinese dealer group shows how BYD compressed decades of brand-building into five years in Europe. Meanwhile, Chinese carmakers are moving from exports to local factories, with Leapmotor's first Spanish-built B10 rolling off an old Stellantis line.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CATL beat revenue expectations but posted its weakest profit growth in quarters, sending shares down for an eighth straight day. The battery giant now faces price wars at home and a crowded EV market abroad.
CATL shares have fallen for eight straight sessions, pushing the world's biggest battery maker back toward a 1 trillion yuan valuation as growth slows. Investors are asking whether the company can find a new story beyond building more factories.
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.
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 industry, police, environment and market regulators summoned more than 30 major automakers to demand tougher product testing and an end to misleading advertising. The meeting lands as the country's car industry battles a brutal price war and safety concerns.
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.
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.
Lionel Messi has ordered a luxury catamaran from Polish builder Sunreef Yachts, reportedly worth around 8 million euros. The five-cabin Ultima 88 will be built in Gdansk with a jet-ski garage and 2,000 horsepower.
Subscription features like Tesla's monthly Full Self-Driving plan are turning one-time car purchases into recurring software revenue. Automakers keep experimenting even after BMW's heated-seat fiasco showed buyers have limits.
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.
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 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.
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.
A major restructuring between FAW and GAC and a Huawei-Seres adjustment signal China's car industry is shifting from rapid expansion to quality-driven growth. New government targets aim for new-energy vehicles to make up 70% of passenger car sales by 2030.
As millions of Chinese drivers hit the road for the long National Day holiday, a viral crash involving assisted driving has reignited debate over how much drivers should rely on the technology.
BYD has teased the interior of its second-generation Seagull, adding a massage seat, a 94-litre front trunk and more storage to a car that starts near the bottom of China's price ladder.
China's flagship 9-series SUVs, once priced as luxury flagships, are being launched with prices up to 28,000 yuan below their own pre-sale levels. Rising supply and softer demand are rewriting the price anchors of the country's most prestigious homegrown models.
Chinese electric-vehicle makers NIO and Geely have announced a partnership aimed at cutting costs and easing the brutal price war squeezing industry margins. The tie-up signals a new phase of consolidation and cooperation in the world's largest EV market.
From Huawei's promise not to build cars to Porsche's recycled-battery cells and a new Beijing auto show, China's car sector is entering a decisive phase of consolidation, export growth and technological repositioning.
A busy week in China's car market brought nine new model launches, a major restructuring between two state-owned automakers, and a shift in the Huawei-Seres partnership, signaling intensifying competition and consolidation.
