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FUZHOU, CHINA – MAY 31, 2025 – Visitors visited the BYD booth at the Fuzhou International Auto Show in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, China on May 31, 2025. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

BYD vows timely supplier payments as China scrutinizes automakers

By Foster Wong, Linda Lew, and others

FUZHOU, CHINA – MAY 31, 2025 – Visitors visited the BYD booth at the Fuzhou International Auto Show in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, China on May 31, 2025. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

China warns BYD, rivals to self-regulate on price war woes

By Linda Lew and Bloomberg

Visitors tour the booth of BYD during the 2025 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Auto Show in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province, May 31, 2025. (Photo by Liang Xu/Xinhua via Getty Images)

BYD shares sink as carmaker faces backlash over EV price war

By Linda Lew and Bloomberg

A Seres Group Co. Aito M9 electric vehicle on display at the Shanghai Auto Show in Shanghai, China, on Thursday, April 24, 2025. The event in the world’s biggest automobile market will put a spotlight on some of China’s most significant carmakers, including more recent entrants into the EV industry like Huawei and Xiaomi. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Chinese luxury carmaker Seres comes from behind to overtake BMW

By Linda Lew and Bloomberg

Xiaomi shares fall after reports of deadly SU7 car crash

By Linda Lew and Bloomberg

This photo shows a Lixiang MEGA at the 22nd Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition at the China Import and Export Fair Complex in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province, Nov. 15, 2024. The exhibition unveiled here on Friday, on which new energy vehicles have drawn wide attention. (Photo by Deng Hua/Xinhua via Getty Images)

China EV makers bet on self-driving models to fend off Tesla

By Linda Lew and Bloomberg

A Geely EX5 car from Chinese automaker Geely Group is seen on display during the first day of Bucharest Auto Show & Accessories SAB in Bucharest, Romania, Oct. 1, 2024. Dozens of conventional, hybrid and electric vehicles, and over 600 brands from the fields of equipment, self-service car washes, parts, accessories, and services are on display at the exhibition until Oct. 6. (Photo by Cristian Cristel/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Geely earnings surge as annual sales near 2 million target

By Linda Lew and Bloomberg

A new energy vehicle is displayed at BYD’s stand at 2024 ChinaJoy in Shanghai, China, on July 26, 2024. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

China tells EV makers to keep tech at home by producing key parts domestically before exporting them for assembly

By Linda Lew and Bloomberg

electric cars roll off assembly line

China’s EV makers are having more trouble paying their bills and now take 2 to 3 times longer than Tesla does

By Pearl Liu, Linda Lew, and others

People look at a BYD Seal car by Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer BYD Auto at the Bangkok International Motor Show in Nonthaburi on March 27, 2024. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP) (Photo by LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP via Getty Images)

BYD overtook Tesla as the world’s biggest seller of EVs but an earnings miss amidst a growing price war sent shares plunging the most in a year

By Danny Lee, Linda Lew, and others

PARIS, FRANCE – JUNE 16: Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, Elon Musk attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre on June 16, 2023 in Paris, France. Elon Musk is visiting Paris for the VivaTech show where he gives a conference in front of 4,000 technology enthusiasts. He also took the opportunity to meet Bernard Arnaud, CEO of LVMH and the French President. Emmanuel Macron, who has already met Elon Musk twice in recent months, hopes to convince him to set up a Tesla battery factory in France, his pioneer company in electric cars. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)

A top Chinese carmaker is launching satellites into low-Earth orbit for real-time communication anywhere—giving Elon Musk’s SpaceX some company

By Linda Lew, Bruce Einhorn, and others

BYD senior exec taunts Musk that Tesla will lose market share and face challenges in its AI self-driving system

By Linda Lew and Bloomberg

ROME, ITALY – DECEMBER 15: Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc and X (formerly Twitter) Ceo speaks at the Atreju political convention organized by militants of Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy), on December 15, 2023 in Rome, Italy. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing political party organised a four-day political festival in the Italian capital. (Photo by Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

Musk wants 25% voting control of Tesla despite only owning 12% of company: ‘Unless that is the case, I would prefer to build products outside of Tesla’

By Edwin Chan, Linda Lew, and others

New BYD cars wait to be loaded onto a newly completed ro-ro ship named BYD Explorer No.1

BYD is now using purpose-built EV cargo ships to send its cars to Europe. The first one, with room for 7,000, just set sail

By Linda Lew, Danny Lee, and others

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – AUGUST 16: Taiwanese Vice President Lai Ching-te greets Taiwanese people who are gathered outside of the Hyatt Regency Hotel of Burlingame, as he stops over in San Francisco, California, United States on August 16, 2023. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

‘China should hold its own elections’: Taiwan condemns China for responding to presidential frontrunner’s trip with ‘irrational and provocative’ military exercises

By Linda Lew and Bloomberg