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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 | Zhipu AI's Rise, Momenta's $1B IPO, and AutoFlight's Global Leap

China's technology sector delivered a concentrated burst of milestones on June 22, spanning AI model competition, capital markets, electric mobility, and low-altitude aviation. The common thread: Chinese companies are no longer competing at the margins of global industries — they are setting terms. From an open-source AI

BYD Hits 100,000 UK EV Deliveries, Grabs 7.2% Market Share in Four Months

BYD has delivered its 100,000th new energy vehicle in the United Kingdom, with its market share climbing to 7.2% in the first four months of 2026 — a milestone that underscores the Chinese automaker's accelerating push into one of Europe's most competitive EV markets. He

ICE Vehicles Face a Historic Shift as China’s EV Market Accelerates and VW Repositions

China's passenger car market delivered a stark verdict in May 2026: internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles lost 39% of their sales volume year-on-year, with market share collapsing to a historic low of 37.1% — a data point that lends empirical weight to a now-viral analogy

BYD Enters South Korea's PHEV Market, Targets Sales Triple Its EV Volume

BYD is pushing into South Korea's plug-in hybrid electric vehicle market, betting that its electric-first powertrain technology can rehabilitate a segment that has long struggled to win over Korean consumers. BYD Korea held a technical briefing in Seoul on June 17, formally announcing plans to launch

ChinaBiz Briefing | Baidu's AI Bet, BYD's EV Push, Zhipu's $2B IPO Bid, and China's Space Race

China's tech and industrial sectors are converging on a single strategic imperative: scale or be displaced. Wednesday's headlines span AI ecosystem warfare, electric vehicle market-structure intervention, a landmark LLM public listing, an OS platform battle, mobile gaming's global advance, and a commercial space

Tariff Walls Force Chinese Automakers to Pivot From Export to Global Manufacturing

In the first five months of 2026, China exported a record 4.25 million vehicles, yet this headline figure masks a critical structural pivot: the era of pure export-driven growth is ending as Chinese automakers aggressively transition to localized global manufacturing. Facing a 125% tariff wall in the US

BYD Datang EV Launch Signals BYD’s Push to Reshape China’s Premium SUV Market

BYD has priced its full-size Datang electric SUV at RMB 239,900–309,900 (US$33,319–US$43,042), a range aggressive enough to structurally undercut the entire mid-to-large SUV segment — and the timing is no accident. The Datang EV's official launch on June

ChinaBiz Briefing | AI Apps Go Paid, EV Makers Build Chips, US Taps China Battery Tech

China's technology and mobility sectors are converging on a single underlying pressure in June 2026: the cost of ambition. AI platforms are burning compute budgets faster than they can build revenue models. EV startups are rewriting their corporate identities around silicon rather than steel. And Detroit's

NIO, Xpeng, Li Auto Abandon Auto Identity to Claim Next Computing Platform

China's three leading EV startups have collectively crossed a strategic Rubicon: their self-developed AI chips are no longer automotive components — they are bids for dominance over the next generation of physical-world computing infrastructure. The inflection point arrived June 15, 2026, when Li Auto unveiled the Mach

Detroit Giants Pivot to Energy Storage, With CATL's Technology Blueprint in Hand

Ford Motor bets on licensed Chinese battery IP while General Motors charts a China-free path — two divergent strategies converging on the same trillion-dollar market. The race to power America's artificial intelligence data centers is pulling Detroit's automakers into an unexpected arena: grid-scale energy

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