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Chinese automaker producing cars and SUVs, including the Omoda and Jaecoo brands, expanding exports and manufacturing into Europe.
Chinese carmakers will bring a record 20 brands to next week's Paris Motor Show, twice the 2024 count, Reuters reported. Europe's incumbents must hold their home market while doing business with the brands taking it.
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Huawei is putting its consumer business behind phones on its own chips as deliveries of Huawei-powered cars slide, down 29% in September. Outside China it now sells only several million phones a year, the base from which Richard Yu wants to win back overseas share.
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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.
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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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The 4,000 redundancies fund £15bn to £18bn of product investment over five years, and the smaller volume base underneath them loads about a third more of that spend onto every car JLR sells.
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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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EU electric vehicle sales rose 40.5% in the first half of 2026. On the published forecasts, Chinese brands are collecting most of that growth in Western Europe.
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