Manufacturers by Region Chinese

Volvo is well-known for its focus on safety, but do you know where the company originated and where it currently builds its vehicles?

Polestar has unveiled its first volume model, as well as the Volvo Group’s first modern electric model: the Polestar 2. Polestar is specifically calling out the Tesla Model 3 and it will seek to compete with it on power, range, and price.

There are a handful of companies racing to put a fully electric pickup truck on sale in the United States, but the first battery-powered pickup available to Americans may not come from Ford or Tesla.

Chinese automaker Zotye Automobile International Co. will open a network of dealerships in the United States by 2020, it has announced.

Geely is constructing a new $1.3-billion manufacturing plant in China, possible to build the first-ever Lotus SUV.

Gearheads know that auto manufacturers love a bit of hyperbole – terms like “class-leading,” “first-ever,” and “iconic” are bandied about with the level of wild abandon normally reserved for freshman-year college parties. A recent report from China, however, takes the proverbial cake.

GAC-Mitsubishi Motors has begun producing the new Eupheme EV for China – a very inexpensive EV that it claims can travel 255 miles, or 410 km, between charges. 

Cyan racing may not be known as Polestar anymore, but that doesn’t mean they’ll stop racing Volvo chassis.

Tesla has made it clear it plans to produce its electric cars in China in the near future. According to people close to the dealings, the automaker is close to purchasing the land for a new factory.

Japanese automaker Toyota may soon partner with Chinese automaker Geely to work on and share hybrid technology.

Chinese startup Byton showed off its first concept at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show, but work is humming along for the production car. The electric crossover SUV, called the M-Byte, has begun real-world testing, the company announced on Tuesday.

China is home to the largest market for electric cars and plug-in hybrids. Naturally, numerous local startups have cropped up as companies aim to cash in on the market.

After two years of uncertainty, Faraday Future showed off the first production body for its FF91 electric car on Monday. It’s the first complete FF91 body built at the company’s new Hanford, California, assembly plant.

The production Lynk & Co 03 has surfaced ahead of its upcoming debut at the 2018 Chengdu Auto Show next month. 

General Motors’ joint venture in China, SAIC–GM-Wuling, produces a relatively popular EV called the Baojun E100.

Chinese electric-car startup Byton has revealed its second concept vehicle of the year. Following the electric-car brand’s SUV concept, the Byton K-Byte sedan concept debuted in Shanghai, China, on Tuesday.

Chinese companies have a reputation for liberally taking inspiration from other company’s products, and the Lamborghini Urus is the latest victim.

The name BYD isn’t a familiar one to most North Americans. Despite its enormous resources and past attempts to crack the retail nut in Canada and the United States, the Chinese automaker has mostly stayed under the radar in this part of the world.

At the 2018 Beijing Motor Show, Pininfarina and Hybrid Kinetic Group (HKG) unveiled two new concepts.

The all-electric K350 crossover will make its debut at the 2018 Beijing Motor Show.

There’s a new challenger for the fastest electric car — the Xing Miss R is setting out to be quicker than the upcoming Tesla Roadster.

Chinese president Xi Jinping pledged to reduce tariffs on vehicle imports and ease limits on foreign ownership in the automotive industry during a speech in China’s Hainan province Tuesday. 

The refreshed Denza 500 battery electric vehicle has launched in China.

Lynk & Co, the Geely-owned automaker looking to break into Europe and North America, will produce its first vehicle at Volvo’s plant in Ghent, Belgium starting in 2019.

You might not be able to tell, but somewhere underneath all that oddly shaped metal is a Ford F-550 commercial truck.

Less than a year ago, Lynk & Co. debuted the 03 sedan concept and now spy photographers are catching prototypes testing in the real world.

The final production design of the Techrules Ren RS has debuted ahead of the 2018 Geneva Motor Show.

China’s LVCHI Auto will debut the Venere at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show in early March.

Italian automotive designer Giorgetto Giugiaro and his company will unveil a new all-electric sedan concept at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show.

Photos of Jeep’s new three-row SUV for China have leaked online. 

After years of discussion, teases, and speculation, Chinese automaker GAC Motor is heading to the U.S. next year.

GAC Motor will once again have a display at the Detroit Auto Show.

The Byton SIV all-electric crossover will bow at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show next week.

The Chinese government has ordered the production halt of 553 different car models as it looks to reduce vehicle emissions and pollution.

A recent report from Korean news publication ET News indicates there’s a global cylindrical battery cell shortage, and that it has been spurred on by Tesla’s Gigafactory.

With 1,341 horsepower, this rally-inspired electric supercar is claiming to be quicker than the new Tesla Roadster.

For a brief period in the early 2000s, the Saleen S7 was the supercar to have.

Volvo and parent company Geely have announced an investment of $756 million USD in the newly repositioned Polestar electric vehicle brand.

Geely now owns a majority stake in Lotus.

Future Mobility, a Chinese electric startup co-founded by ex- BMW and Nissan executives, has teased its newest model, the Byton, ahead of the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January.

Fiat Chrysler could be set for a Chinese acquisition.

Vanda Electrics has released a short video of its Dendrobium electric supercar driving under its own power.  

Volvo and Geely have announced a new joint venture that will see the companies share existing and future technologies.

China’s Lynk & Co has revealed it will soon unveil a new ’02’ small crossover that will undercut the larger ’01’ SUV in the automaker’s lineup.

German manufacturer Apollo has teased its new IE supercar, which will likely be the track-only version of its upcoming Arrow model.

This is our first look at what the remnants of Saab will become. 

Chinese automaker Zhejiang Geely Holding, the same company that owns Volvo, has announced it is buying a 49.9 percent stake in struggling automaker Proton and along with it a controlling stake in famed British sports car builder Lotus. 

GAC Motor is worried the “Trumpchi” name won’t sit well with Americans.

The Chinese automotive industry is moving at a rapid pace.

Hybrid Kinetic and Pininfarina are previewing two more future models.

A Chinese startup electric car maker has just debuted a production SUV, and it looks surprisingly legitimate.

The MG E-Motion Concept is likely heading to production.

Ahead of its debut at the Shanghai Auto Show, China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group has revealed the new Lynk & CO 03 sedan concept. 

Zotye is the most unoriginal automaker you’ve never heard of. The Chinese company has made a bit of a name for itself copying more established, well known manufacturers and the latest addition to its lineup is yet another carbon copy – this time of the Lamborghini Urus.

Photos of the Lynk and Co 02 sedan have made an early appearance on the internet.