BYD asks about taking over Canada Stellantis plant
August 31, 2026 1:57 PM, EDT The Stellantis Brampton Assembly Plant near Toronto. (Laura Proctor/Bloomberg) Key Takeaways: BYD…
Can China and Indonesia’s strong financial ties withstand ‘resource nationalism’?
Back in 2009, when China’s economy was expanding at about twice today’s pace, a little-known private firm made…
Lower profit margins set to foil Chinese carmakers’ price war plans despite falling sales
Narrowing profit margins due to higher raw material costs have dealt yet another major blow to China’s carmakers…
‘Payback’: why China’s world-beating car industry faces plunging sales at home
China’s electric vehicle (EV) industry sits at the centre of numerous economic and geopolitical trends: consumer spending, environmental…
How Hong Kong is fighting to redefine its future with an institutional moat, wealth surge
For decades, warnings of Hong Kong’s terminal decline have arrived in periodic waves. When Stephen Roach, the former…
How America’s Policy Whiplash Derailed EV Growth
A few years ago it looked like things would be mostly up and to the right for electric…
US adds Alibaba, BYD and other Chinese tech champions to military company blacklist
The Pentagon signalled on Monday that it was adding Alibaba, BYD, Baidu and dozens of other Chinese companies…
What’s Powering Clean Energy – Heatmap News
I’m writing from Washington, D.C., today, after having the privilege of watching (and moderating) Heatmap’s second Energy Entrepreneurship…
The U.S. auto industry is losing ground to China and imperiling national security
It would hardly be an understatement to say the U.S. auto industry has historically been one of the…
Canada weighs specific EV caps for Tesla, BYD to prevent market dominance
Canada is weighing how to allocate a low-tariff quota for 49,000 China-made EVs to prevent a single automaker…
Ford’s ‘Skunkworks’ EV Development Center: Behind The Scenes
Last October, Ford CEO Jim Farley was blunt about the challenge his company faces. With growing production capacity,…
I went to the Beijing Auto Show and it’s a glimpse at the future of the auto industry
I just spent two days at the 2026 Beijing Auto Show (Auto China 2026), and I need to…