China’s BYD has started shipping Thai-made vehicles to Europe for the first time. Over 900 units of BYD Dolphin set sail to Germany, Belgium and the UK, the company announced Monday. The first batch of Dolphins left Thailand aboard BYD’s own vessel BYD Zhengzhou. This is the first time Zhengzhou has sailed from Thailand to Europe. The Rayong-based CKD factory, which began operations in July 2024, is BYD’s first fully-owned passenger car plant outside of China. With an annual production capacity of 150,000 vehicles, the site serves both the local Thai market and overseas exports.
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Chinese robotic vacuum manufacturer Dreame today announced its foray into the automotive industry. Its first car, an ultra-luxury pure EV that aims at competing with 's , is scheduled to debut in 2027..
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Lol Let's see if the chinese government will intervene again if this starts another round of the never ending price wars, especislly just when their efforts of stopping the endless cycle of price wars started finally bearing fruits. LolSAIC might also be igniting a price war now.
After launching the Huawei-SAIC Shangjie H5 for 16.98w a couple days ago
They launched MG4 today, with 437km of range for just 6.58w. This is a good price amd I think this will steal some sales away from Geely Xingyuan, Wuling Mini and BYD Dolphin/Seagull
Its normal to be honest. China's market is getting saturated and too price sensitive/competitive especally with such low prices due to intense price wars. So EV companies can have better profit margins by investing more abroad and making/selling their cars overseas. Even if i was a manager of a EV conpany i will also do the same. Afterall its business, and so profit margins also matters to keep your business viable,sustainable and competitive in the long term since you need to keep reinvesting in R&D, branding , marketing, productivity etc.China’s EV industry is spending more on factories abroad than at home for the first time
Not the first robo vaccum company to build a car in China. ROX motor, founded by the founder of vaccum cleaner brand Roborock, already have a model called . (And Xiaomi make vaccums as well, that makes 3 out of 4 major Chinese robo vacuum brand now in the auto industry)