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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Electric vehicles myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Shares in BYD and other Chinese carmakers tumbled on Monday, after the electric vehicle champion fired a new salvo in […]

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Robin Zeng, the billionaire head of battery giant CATL, expects that half of all new trucks sold in China will

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shares in leading Chinese battery maker CATL rose 12.6 per cent as trading began on Tuesday and retail investors followed

For the second time in weeks, BYD, the Chinese rival to Tesla backed by Warren Buffett, has rocked the global auto sector.  On Monday, Wang Chuanfu, the Shenzhen-based group’s billionaire founder, unveiled a new charging system that could add about

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China’s leading electric-vehicle maker BYD has pledged to work with rival Tesla to combat petrol cars, while insisting that Beijing

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Electric vehicles myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. China’s best-selling car manufacturer BYD sold a record number of electric vehicles and hybrids globally last year, even as fierce

Exporters from China, Canada and Mexico are seeking to front-load shipments to the US after president-elect Donald Trump pledged to impose new levies on goods from the three countries on his first day in office. At a giant supply chain

Chinese smartphone manufacturers are intensifying efforts to gain a stronger foothold in Europe and sell higher-margin premium devices, with one of the world’s fastest-growing brands aiming to more than double its market share on the continent in the next three