Beijing says it is willing to work with Brussels despite rising tensions over China’s state support for its car and green tech industries

BASF is getting out and VW may follow. China said in response it hopes businesses in Xinjiang "cherish" their opportunities and not believe "rumours" about forced labour

CEO He Xiaopeng said the carmaker would hire 4,000 new workers and invest $486m in AI, as China faces a year seen as the first of a “knockout round” for Chinese auto brands

Late last year a Russian firm imported car kits to assemble Citroёn C5 models at an old plant still owned by Stellantis; they came from China's Dongfeng Motor Group

Chinese carmaker is doing a study on building a factory in Mexico, which would export cheap EVs to the US; other plants are also opening or planned in Thailand, Hungary and Brazil

China and Indonesia account for 70% of global supplies of nickel, but producers in the countries have become unprofitable after the battery metal shed more than 80% of its price since last year

China has invited top car and battery makers to a new research body to try to develop a world-class battery, that bolsters its transition to electric and new energy vehicles

JSW, which has set up a joint venture with MG Motor India (owned by China's SAIC), said it has signed an MoU on setting up an electric vehicle and EV battery manufacturing plants in two cities

Dozens of US venture capitalists who invest in Chinese tech are putting democracy at risk, as those firms are beholden to an autocratic regime, a new report says

China's passenger vehicle sales also sank by 14% in a slow start for 2024, while in Japan Honda and Toyota both upgraded their earnings

Exports have helped drive subsidised Chinese automakers' growth but they are now seeing pushback from US and European governments

Beijing has laid out wide-ranging guidelines for various departments and the central bank to help the new-energy-vehicle trade