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In-depth analysis of China’s electric vehicle industry, including EV makers, batteries, pricing competition, and policy support. This section tracks profitability challenges, technology shifts, and structural changes shaping the world’s largest EV market.

ChinaBiz Briefing: ByteDance's Global AI Push, Chinese EVs Take 23% of UK Sales

China's tech and industrial giants are moving up the value chain on multiple fronts simultaneously — but each faces the same structural ceiling: converting scale into durable, defensible revenue. ByteDance is translating viral AI moments into enterprise contracts abroad; Chinese automakers are flooding the UK market but scrambling to

Chinese EV Brands Capture 23% of UK Monthly Sales, But After-Sales Networks Lag Behind the Surge

Five divergent service strategies now determine long-term market viability as Chinese automakers collectively register 304,800 vehicles in Britain through September 2026 Chinese automotive brands have seized nearly a quarter of the UK's monthly new-car market, yet the infrastructure required to repair those vehicles is being

BYD's Q3 2026 Earnings: Scale Without the Profit to Match

Jefferies released a flash note on BYD Co Ltd (002594 CH / 1211 HK) on October 29, 2026, following the Chinese EV giant's third-quarter results. The headline numbers looked respectable enough — but strip out the one-time items and the picture dims considerably, raising pointed questions about whether

China's Smart Driving Industry Enters a Reckoning: Safety Data and Willingness to Pay Define the Next Phase

As L2 penetration hits 70%, Chinese automakers face a harder question than technology deployment: how to convert safety credentials into recurring software revenue without a captive audience. The first phase of China's intelligent driving rollout was a race for hardware ubiquity. That race is largely over. According to

ChinaBiz Briefing | Battery Swaps Go Multi-Brand, AI Hardware Arms Race, Li Auto Rewrites Supplier Rules, DeepSeek's $13.9B Gamble

China's technology and industrial sectors delivered a week of structural inflection points — not incremental moves. Battery swapping crossed from niche experiment to shared infrastructure play. AI developers abandoned pure software strategies for hardware lock-in. An EV maker rewrote the OEM-supplier contract without building a single factory.

Li Auto Rewrites Battery Supply Chain Rules, Stopping Short of Making Cells

Li Auto used its October 25 Power Day event to seize control of cell design, process data and warranty liability from battery suppliers—a structural shift that Jefferies analysts say positions the automaker as the most replicable upstream integration model among Chinese EV peers, even as near-term costs weigh

CATL’s Record Q3 Revenue Overshadowed by Margin Squeeze and Tax Headwinds

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL) is shipping more batteries than ever, but making less money on each unit, signaling a structural shift in the global battery supply chain where volume growth no longer guarantees margin expansion. The world’s largest battery maker reported record third-quarter revenue for 2026,

ChinaBiz Briefing: MiniMax Challenges DeepSeek, Unitree Surges, China's AI Export Rules

China's technology and industrial sectors delivered a dense week of signals: a profit crisis masked by record auto export volumes, a new competitive duopoly in lightweight AI models, sweeping export controls on frontier AI software, a policy-driven robotics re-rating, a capital consolidation milestone in autonomous logistics,

Leapmotor’s Zaragoza Bet: China’s Auto Exporters Face a Survival Test

China shipped a record 5.096 million vehicles overseas in the first half of 2026—yet the industry's profit margin has collapsed to 3.8%, and Leapmotor's lean-asset European factory model offers the clearest window yet into how the sector is attempting to reconcile volume

ChinaBiz Briefing: NIO Beats German Trio, DeepSeek Goes Mass Market, Tencent Enters Short Drama War

China's technology and automotive sectors delivered a concentrated set of structural shifts this week. A domestic EV brand outsold every German luxury marque in China for the first time. The country's most technically credible AI lab made its clearest pivot toward consumer users. And Tencent launched

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