{"id":720552,"date":"2026-07-31T08:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720552\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:17:27","slug":"renault-open-to-building-chinese-cars-in-europe-on-its-own-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720552\/","title":{"rendered":"Renault open to building Chinese cars in Europe \u2013 on its own terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renault Group CEO Fran\u00e7ois Provost is &#8220;open&#8221; to building cars for Chinese companies in Europe\u00a0but, unlike some rivals, sees no\u00a0need for such partnerships to bolster his firm&#8217;s business in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking as the French company announced its financial figures for the first half of 2026 (during which it grew revenues by 9.5% and achieved a profit margin of 5.2%),\u00a0Provost said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/car-reviews\/renault\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Renault<\/a>&#8216;s global production network is operating at capacity, with no costly gaps that could be filled by a third party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Renault Group CEO Fran\u00e7ois Provost is &#8220;open&#8221; to building cars for Chinese companies in Europe\u00a0but, unlike some rivals,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-720552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}