SAIC Motor

China brings EV price war to Thailand, dangling 38% discounts

The steep cuts have fuelled a sales surge of over 20% in October and November

Leapmotor is ramping up a venture with Fiat and Peugeot owner Stellantis, complementing its partner’s lineup with the battery-powered T03 hatchback.

Chinese carmakers retreat from record share of European sales

BYD in particular has rapidly built its sales network, with a focus on the UK

GM’s China sales have grown through the first six months of this year, including a 20% jump in the second quarter to 447,000 vehicles.

GM is in talks to extend China venture with demand recovering

Foreign automakers have scaled back in the Asian nation as domestic players have taken greater control of the market

The bulk of the growth in Europe has come in EVs and hybrids, where Chinese manufacturers can leverage their strengths in battery technology and software.

Chinese automakers grab record hybrid market share in Europe

EV sales are now back to mid-2024 levels, before the European Union introduced tariffs on Chinese-made electric cars

BYD is expanding its dealer network, building factories in Hungary and Turkey to make EVs that will not be subject to tariffs, and is considering a third plant in Europe.

Chinese automakers crank up sales of cars with combustion engines in Europe

One reason for the shift to fossil fuel-burning models has been the added EV levies, which raised import duties to as high as 45 per cent in the case of state-owned Saic

Li Sheng, MG’s overseas brand and marketing director, with the MG S5 electric vehicle that was launched in Singapore on Wednesday (Apr 9). The model will be the brand's "most important" one in sales terms, he says.

China-owned British car brand MG aims to double South-east Asia sales to 100,000 in next three years

It will add two more factories in the region, and offer electric vehicles, hybrids and conventional cars 

The deal signed on Friday provides for Huawei and SAIC Motor to cooperate strategically on manufacturing, supply chain management and sales services.

China’s SAIC, Huawei to partner in developing new smart EVs

CHINESE automaker SAIC Motor said on Friday (Feb 21) it would partner with tech company Huawei to develop new “globally competitive” smart electric vehicles.

The EU imposed tariffs on China-made EVs at the end of October after an anti-subsidy investigation, including 17 per cent for BYD, 18.8 per cent for Geely and 35.3 per cent for SAIC, on top of the EU’s standard car import duty of 10 per cent.

BMW joins Chinese EV makers in filing EU court challenge to tariffs

BMW has joined Chinese producers in filing a challenge at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) against EU tariffs on China-made electric vehicles (EVs), according to a filing on the court...

IM Motors LS6 sport-utility vehicle will go on sale in Singapore in the second half of 2025.

Alibaba joint venture EV brand IM Motors to take on Tesla, XPeng in Singapore

The brand, majority-owned by China state carmaker SAIC, will debut at Singapore Motorshow on Jan 9

Volkswagen, along with its joint venture partner SAIC Motor, will gradually shift production of its Passat family cars from the Nanjing plant to a nearby factory in the same eastern province of Jiangsu.

Volkswagen plans stop to production at jointly-owned China plant

VOLKSWAGEN is planning to stop production at one of its combustion engine car plants in China, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said, in a sign of carmakers’ struggles to manage overcapaci...