The Financial Times, April 24, 2016 Carmakers are gearing up for a year of intense competition in China as the world’s largest auto market by sales faces both slowing growth and changing tastes in the form of electric cars and sports utility vehicles. This time last year,...
Bloomberg News, April 22, 2016 William Li isn’t your typical, boundlessly optimistic Chinese tech entrepreneur. Yes, the founder of startup NextEV Inc. has big plans to disrupt China’s electric car market, the financial backing of venture capital powerhouses Sequoia Capital and Hillhouse Capital and considers Tesla Motors founder Elon...
Shanghai, China, March 31, 2016 Building a Disruption-Ready Organization 2016 Russell Reynolds Associates Auto Show Event The traditional automotive industry, where technology innovation has primarily been focused on powertrain and safety systems, must now contend with new forms of mobility services that are revolutionizing mobility needs. The conventional...
Beijing, China, March 30, 2016 The Future Perfect Series: Urbanization and Mobility Urbanization. A Growing Middle Class. Pollution. Grid Lock. How are these factors shaping mobility in China? What solutions are being developed to ease mobility in China? How do you see mobility impacting and shaping lives...
The New York Times, March 28, 2016 by Keith Bradsher A Cadillac exhibited under water with goldfish in Guangzhou, China. Automakers have pinned their hopes on China, but its economy is cooling. CreditZhong Zhi/Getty Images SHANGHAI — The new $1.3 billion Cadillac factory on the outskirts of Shanghai is...
Automotive News, March 14, 2016 New-energy push bolsters investment by Alysha Webb In 2013, Mike McQuary, CEO of Wheego Electric Cars, was in a bind. The maker of small electric vehicles needed expansion funds. But with high-profile electrified vehicle makers like Fisker and Coda struggling, the appetite in the...
The Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2016 Many car makers posted declining sales in China in February. Above, a SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile manufacturing plant in Qingdao, Shandong Province. Photo: European Pressphoto Agency By Christina Rogers Updated March 7, 2016 8:57 p.m. ET General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. both posted steep sales declines in China last...
Bloomberg Television, March 2. 2016 Bill Russo, Gao Feng Advisory Company's managing director, discusses China's auto market with Bloomberg's Angie Lau on "First Up." (Source: Bloomberg) Click here to watch the video at bloomberg.com...
The Financial Times, March 1, 2016 You have probably read, in the Financial Times and elsewhere, that China is the world’s largest car market. It is not. It is the world’s largest new car market, with sales of 21.1m units last year compared with 17.4m in the US....
The Financial Times, February 25, 2016 China’s efforts to take the lead in electric vehicle development will focus on battery technologies and public vehicle fleets, in a bid to kick an over-dependence on subsidies, according to officials. Premier Li Keqiang vowed to “step up support” for the electric...
