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JATO Dynamics: China’s smaller cities help boost new car sales in 2015; SUVs biggest growth drivers

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million in 2015, an 11% increase on 2014. Although new car sales growth for 2015 was still in the double digits, the rate declined for a second year in a row—dropping to 11% from 13% in 2014 and 16% in 2013. Just as in Europe and the USA, SUVs are the biggest driver of new sales.

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BYD, Toyota jointly to develop battery electric vehicles for Chinese market

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The two parties will jointly develop sedans and low-floor SUVs as well as the onboard batteries for these vehicles and others with the aim to launch them in the Chinese market under the Toyota brand in the first half of the 2020s. Since 2015 onwards, BYD’s sales of BEVs and PHEVs have been ranked first in the world for four consecutive years.

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Big Auto is begging governments to let them go bankrupt as Chinese EVs loom

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Chinese EVs will grow, whether you like it or not China is actually a little late to the EV party. Chinese EV sales have started taking off overseas , particularly in Europe. They contend that the Chinese government unfairly subsidizes its auto sector, making prices uncompetitively low. Namely: China.

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China’s Electric Car Emissions Reductions Increasing Rapidly Over Time

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Chinese EVs achieve greater emissions reductions over time due to improved efficiency and a greener power grid, states a study. While over 10% of Chinese car sales are now electric, the entire life cycle of EVs still generates carbon emissions.

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Chinese EV brand, Xpeng, coming to Europe

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Founded in 2015, Xpeng has found decent success in its domestic Chinese market, having sold more than 21,000 EVs since its first production model went on sale in 2018.

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Groupe Renault changes China strategy: light commercial vehicles and electric passenger cars

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EV sales are expected to reach 25% of the Chinese market by 2030. Chinese ICE passenger car market. JMEV was created in 2015. With Renault support in terms of quality and technologies, JMEV will cover 45% of Chinese EV market in 2022 with 4 core models. million customers in China and close to 162,000 sales in 2019.

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Toyota to try to double sales in China by 2015; leveraging local subsidies for hybrids

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million new vehicles in China in 2015, up from 880,000 last year. Toyota’s share of the Chinese passenger car market slipped from 10.3% Toyota’s share of the Chinese passenger car market slipped from 10.3% million to 1.8 It will build new joint-venture factories, boosting local production capacity to around 1.5 in 2008 to 6.8%

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