Execs introduce new models at Detroit Auto Show
Auto sales in China, the world's biggest auto market, rose 4.7 percent year on year to 24.59 million units in 2015.
As the North American International Auto Show kicked off Monday in the US city of Detroit, executives of the world's leading antomakers have the Chinese market in their sights.
Uber chief executive didn't reveal details of the funding, but said CITIC Securities, China Taiping Insurance, and GAC Group are on the funder list.
Two Nissan Intelligent Driving cars based on the Leaf model gave autonomous rides around the Renault-Nissan Silicon Valley Research Center to 25 reporters from China, Japan, France, Italy, and the US on Thursday and Friday.
Volkswagen posted slightly weaker auto sales in China in 2015 compared with a year earlier, but demand for its luxury cars remained resilient.
Uber and Hainan Airlines (HNA) jointly announced cooperation on Monday to link ride-sharing services with flights as the US company is vying for a bigger market share in China.
Potential danger from window frames prompted Mazda to recall 2,011 units of its imported Mazda 6 Atenza in China last week.
Volkswagen will recall 58 units of the 2015 Beetle in China from April 15 because of a fuel pump problem.
Buoyed by record sales figures for 2015, Volvo Car Corp, owned by Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, is already flexing its muscle to begin the New Year.
Renault Nissan executives are eager to bring the company's autonomous driving technologies to China soon, to join those already being used as safety features by Dongfeng Nissan, Nissan Motor's joint venture in the country with Dongfeng Motor.
China's auto dealers might find the road a little rocky in January after customer demand was largely met at the end of 2015, warned a senior official at the China Automobile Dealers Association.
The fascination of Chinese with SUVs looks likely to continue for some time but domestic automakers should not pin all their hopes on the model, industry experts warn.
As we ring the new year, China Daily reporters Hao Yan and Li Fusheng interviewed auto industrial researchers and experts to share their thoughts on issues that are expected to have a major impact in 2016.
Tesla Motors is working to make the hands-free operation feature of its vehicles unavailable on residential roads or roads without a center divider.
Hyundai Motor Co is weighing plans to build its new luxury Genesis cars in China to overcome import tariffs that add 25 percent to the sticker price and are seen as inhibiting the company's ability to compete with locally made BMWs and Audis.
A total of 230 recalls were announced in 2015, involving 5.57 million vehicles. The amount of involved cars rose 17 percent from 2014.
As new-energy vehicle sales gain momentum in China, industry experts are calling for more attention to technical progress in the emerging sector in coming years.
China has amended its new energy vehicle charging standards with an emphasis on compatibility and safety, in hopes of accelerating facility construction and boosting development of the sector.
Sino-Japanese partnership FAW Toyota Motor Sales Co is aggressively betting on petrol-electric hybrid cars rather than purely electric or plug-in hybrid models, to carve a slice of the burgeoning new-energy vehicle market in China, which is plagued by mounting air pollution.
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