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EU officials reportedly told Andy Burnham the UK must tariff cheap Chinese cars or face 'made in Europe' barriers on exports to a bloc that takes 58% of them. The case for staying open now rests on Chinese investment and cheaper cars at home.
Tesla nearly quadrupled its authorized Cybercab fleet in Texas to 169 in a month, against Waymo's 1,154 autonomous vehicles in the state. With the shares down 18% this year, the stock depends on that pace holding for many more months.
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Ceer, the EV maker majority-owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, showed two premium cars that compete with Lucid, in which the fund holds about 58%. For a Saudi fleet weighing the two PIF-backed brands, any comparison has to wait until Ceer publishes prices.
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South Korea's parliamentary transport committee called BYD Korea's head, its passenger-car chief and Tesla Korea's head to testify at its audit on Oct. 15. Both carmakers' Korean operations go on the record, and any further cost depends on what lawmakers do next.
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Overseas revenue added about $6.9bn while Greater China shed roughly $10.8bn, so the group shrank even as exports grew a third, and Citi's 41.2 billion yuan full-year figure now needs a second half 2.35 times the first.
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Geely's new battery charges from 10% to 97% in 8 minutes 40 seconds on 2.2-megawatt chargers, 20 seconds faster than BYD's Blade. Its larger contest is with CATL, supplier of 63% of Geely's batteries and twice as profitable in the first half as 15 listed carmakers combined.
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The Japanese carmaker will install 150,000 humanoids in its own plants and 250,000 at affiliates, aiming at 60 factories. The only annual build rate on the record is Tesla's 50,000 Optimus units. Hyundai's union wants a veto.
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Dan Hreszczuk found that the way into a BYD Shark 6's vehicle functions had no password on it, and over two weeks he reached the doors, wipers, headlights, cabin microphone and live location. The brakes and cameras held.
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Reports put BYD, Xiaomi and CATL on the list for the summit on the 24th while OpenAI's Sam Altman and Greg Brockman attend the state dinner. Analysts quoted by the South China Morning Post read the missing AI founders two different ways.
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KAMA's seven-month count of 237,032 registrations is already past all of last year, but Tesla's 66,376 sales in Korea now put Hyundai third in EVs in its own home market, with Kia still ahead on 85,444.
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Tesla has registered a Vietnamese entity. The market it would enter grew 89% in the second quarter of 2026 and is 92% VinFast, whose parent Vingroup booked $8.52bn of revenue in the first half of the year.
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US automakers have already tested the tall pack, and CATL says it could license the design for local manufacture. Chinese cell output rose 44% to 1,240 GWh in the first half, and that volume needs somewhere to go.
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The company will show the Li 6 in Paris and start selling in the fourth quarter, bringing only its battery models because the EU's duty on Chinese electric cars catches the extended-range powertrain that is its business at home.
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Chinese carmakers shipped more than 6.2 million cars in eight months while sales at home fell 25.6% in August. The EU duty covers battery electrics only. BYD's Hungarian plant reaches mass production this quarter.
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The Galaxy TT starts at 129,900 yuan with 800-volt charging on every trim and LiDAR on four of the five, and the launch price came in 16,000 yuan below the presale sticker Geely set for it a month earlier.
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A Foreign Affairs essay argues the May strategic stability consensus is holding, and the same essay concedes that Beijing never expected it to stop new listings from landing, which is the part supply chain planning has to absorb.
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Management is confronting workers on one side and investors on the other, and the Seeking Alpha analyst who says China is still the key holds no Volkswagen at all, only small longs in Geely and Chery.
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Xpeng's robotics unit took in more than $900 million at a $6.3 billion post-money valuation, one of eight Chinese carmakers now building humanoids, while the nearest thing to a dated job on a real factory floor belongs to Hyundai.
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Xiaomi says the chip has cleared validation and is headed for commercial use in 2027, without publishing a TOPS rating. The figure product teams should read instead is the 160GB of unified memory it addresses.
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The Ojai vans picking up riders in San Francisco and Phoenix are built in Ningbo and land under a 127.5 percent tariff, a cost a fleet operator can spread over years of paid trips and a dealership cannot.
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