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Elon Musk says he didn't ask for Biden's tariff on electric vehicles from China

Elon Musk said he was surprised when President Joe Biden announced a 100% tariff on Chinese electric cars. Read More

How Shenzhen, China, became the electric car capital of the world

China now produces nearly three-quarters of the world’s electric cars, and no city embodies that dominance more than Shenzhen, home to industry giant BYD. Once known as “The World’s Factory,” the city ... Read More

China’s EV Market Is Imploding

In China, you can buy a heavily discounted “used” electric car that has never, in fact, been used. Chinese automakers, desperate to meet their sales targets in a bitterly competitive market, sell cars ... Read More

On British Roads, Chinese Cars Are Racing Ahead

BYD, Chery and other Chinese automakers are winning over drivers in Britain, where tariffs are low and buyers are open to new brands. Read More

We’re losing the EV race because we still think it’s about the environment

While Beijing built gigafactories, the United States debated tax credits. China saw electric vehicles as an industrial strategy — we saw them as climate policy. Now, China commands 60 percent of ... Read More

How Chinese cars are beating European tariffs

Europe’s EV tariffs were designed to address what the European Commission calls the “unfair subsidisation” of Chinese producers by the state and restore a “level playing field”. But instead of ... Read More