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DeepSeek Is Already Making Its Way Into Chinese EVs

AI is a hot-button topic, especially in the automotive industry. As time marches forward, it seems like we’re all shifting from software-driven EVs, to shoehorning AI into every nook and cranny. Will it work? Who knows. But, the world’s latest low-cost AI Chinese darling, DeepSeek, is quickly ingratiating itself with…

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Fortune 500 auto-parts supplier Lear looks to slash some 15,000 jobs this year globally

The company is also looking to drive growth by winning new business from the one group of automakers most likely to grow in the near future: Chinese domestic brands like BYD, Feely, and now Xiaomi.

Fortune

Volvo Has Many New Cars on the Way

Last year was Volvo's second consecutive year of record sales, with 763,389 cars delivered, or 8 percent more than the previous year. Despite this solid result, the Geely-owned brand braces for a "turbulent 2025 due to challenging market conditions." To stay competitive, it's putting the finishing touches on an updated…

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GM’s 100-year-old China business can’t keep up with the country's EV boom

The automaker estimates its struggling China business will cost $5 billion, but it isn't giving up on the country yet.

Fortune

Tesla, BMW Take EU To Court Over China EV Tariffs

Elon Musk's Tesla and German auto giant BMW have challenged EU import tariffs on China-made electric vehicles at the bloc's top court, the European Commission said Monday.

International Business Times

What Trump’s Tariffs Mean For EVs, Jobs And Your Wallet

It took a century to build a global automotive supply chain that spread technology, manufacturing, and jobs across borders, delivering mobility to millions. Now, with a single stroke of the pen, President Trump's executive order threatening 25% tariffs on goods imported from Mexico and Canada could upend that supply chain,…

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The Rebooted Smart Car Brand Keeps Getting More Interesting

Everyone knows the Smart car. The sort of roller-skate-shaped microcar was a godsend to city-dwellers all over the world, and in many ways still is. But these days, Smart is half-owned by its original parent company, Mercedes-Benz, while the other half is owned by China's Geely Group. And as Geely…

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The Polestar 7 SUV is coming in 2026 – and it wants to take the fight to Tesla's Model Y

The Polestar 7 SUV is landing in 2026 – and a more affordable, compact electric SUV could help Polestar attract a new audience.

TechRadar

Rivian Just Got A Major New Lifeline

The Biden administration's climate change investments are still taking shape even amid the president's very last days in the White House. Over the last few weeks, it's been an absolute blitz: Fast-tracked approvals for loans and grants for all sorts of clean energy projects, including chargers and battery plants. Now days…

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Chinese cars are close to a US ban – and that could make EVs a lot more expensive

As part of a crackdown on vehicle software and hardware from China, the Biden Administration has finalized its rules for banning Chinese EVs in the US market.

TechRadar

'We Need Each Other’: Why China's Zeekr Is Optimistic About The U.S. And Europe

It was standing room only in Mandalay Bay, one of CES’s satellite locations away from the main Las Vegas Convention Center area. I was late, not realizing just how far it was from my hotel, but CES’ takeover of the entire city can make travel daunting. But I should have…

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Biden’s Final Crackdown On Chinese Cars Sets Up A Trump EV Showdown

The clock is ticking down on President Biden's tenure in the White House, which leaves little time for the administration to cement its clean energy legacy in American history. The Biden administration is working to make use of every last second—pushing through rules, regulations, and funding requests to minimize the…

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The Zeekr Mix Ultra-Luxury Van Says A Lot About Where ‘Driving’ Goes Next

I feel like every automaker in this new precarious, pseudo-self-driving era wants to create an experience where the car is a sort of an extension of your home, rather than a conveyance meant that one would drive from place to place. These neo-futurists—car designers, tech bro CEOs, and investors alike…

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Toyota's 'City Of The Future', Flying Cars And AI: CES 2025 Is Here

Back in the day, the Detroit Auto Show was the Super Bowl for those of us who covered the automotive industry. Three days of news conferences, interviews and new car debuts in the Motor City, all with the top executives from all over the world in attendance. (We used to…

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Exciting new EVs are coming in 2025: here’s what you need to know

Telsa, Polestar, Volvo, and others have big EV plans in 2025.

Fortune

Malaysia's auto industry releases its first-ever EV—but drivers wonder if it's really homegrown

Proton’s e.MAS 7, unveiled on Monday, was developed concurrently with Geely’s Galaxy E5.

InsideEVs

Zeekr 7X Electric SUV Lands In Europe Starting At €52,990

Zeekr was founded in China in, 2021 aimed at both local rival Nio and EV juggernaut Tesla. It was conceived as a global brand, and it’s already present outside China, including in Europe. Now, it's opened European order books for its third, and largest, model, the Zeekr 7X.

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What Lucid's Chief Engineer Thinks Of 'China's Apple Car'

How the tables have turned. Historically, Chinese cars were nothing to write home about and Chinese car companies relied heavily on know-how shared with them by Western, Japanese and Korean partners. Now, China is the world’s biggest exporter of cars and the rest of the world is scrambling to understand how…

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I Tried An EV Battery Swap Station. It May Just Be The Future

“The average Chinese person and the average American are the same damn person,” one auto industry insider working in China told me recently. He was right, too.

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Lotus Delays Electric Sports Car, Hybrid Emira Could Happen

At the beginning of the year, Lotus said it would replace the Emira with a purely electric sports car before the decade's end. However, the zero-emission “Type 135” is being delayed now that the British marque has realized the transition to EVs will take longer than initially estimated. The Geely-owned…

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Lotus Plans Hyper Hybrid Tech with a Gas-Only Mode

Earlier this week, Lotus admitted it won’t go purely electric by 2028 as initially planned. The Geely brand has now shared preliminary details about how it intends to keep the gasoline engine alive. During the Q3 2024 earnings conference call, CEO Feng Qingfeng spoke highly of the so-called Hyper Hybrid…

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Rivian's CEO Thinks It Can Be Besties With Scout

Have you thought about how small the EV segment really is? Today, fewer than one in ten new vehicles sold in the U.S. are BEVs. Now start to think about what kind of buyer each EV attracts—you've got high-ranking execs picking up Porsches, glamping outdoorsy folk looking at Rivian and…

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Zeekr 7x Crossover Spotted Testing In Europe Before Debut

Geely, Zeekr, the EU, and China are all hot-button topics right now, as each entity goes through its own tumultuous re-organization to protect its own interests. Geely has merged Zeekr and Lynk Co back into one entity (sort of), while the EU demands a technology transfer from China if it…

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Geely’s Zeekr Will Take Over Lynk & Co To Chase BYD

Geely wants to streamline its business and maximize its competitiveness by putting Lynk Co under the control of Zeekr. The company has now decided that Zeekr will gain a controlling 51% stake in Lynk Co, currently valued at $2.5 billion, to improve coordination between the two brands and eliminate the…

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The Volvo XC90 Isn't Going Anywhere

Volvo was one of the first legacy automakers to plan an all-electric lineup. Announced in March 2021, the ambitious strategy called for an end to cars with combustion engines by 2030. However, a few months ago, the Geely-owned brand revised its overly optimistic goal by saying ICE cars will continue…

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