The Economist, April 4, 2019 It does not need to have the best car companies to win the race The vehicles on Beijing’s boulevards offer little evidence that China has a car industry at all. Range Rovers seem to outnumber all the Havals, Changans and byds put together; you...
Bloomberg Business Week, February 27, 2019 A strict cap on permits keeps pollution, and auto sales, down in some of Chinaʼs biggest cities. Itʼs not the half-million-yuan price tag keeping Beijing resident Sandra Zhao from buying her dream car, a BMW X4 SUV. Itʼs the license plate...
MIT Technology Review, December-January 2018/2019 China was no good at cars. Then EVs came along. After the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and ’70s crippled China’s economy, the country began to open its markets to the outside world. The aim was to bring in technological know-how from...
Bloomberg News, February 20, 2019 Electric cars are holding their own in China, the world’s biggest auto market, even as the industry has seen a slump in overall sales for seven straight months. Deliveries of new-energy passenger vehicles, which include pure-battery, plug-in hybrids and fuel-cell cars, more...
Las Vegas, NV, USAJanuary 8 & 9, 2019 Topic: China’s Path to the Digital Internet of Mobility The world has entered a new era since 2008, with over half of the world population now living in cities, and this increasingly urbanized world challenges the established set of paradigms for personal and commercial...
The New York Times, November 15, 2018 [caption id="attachment_17142" align="alignnone" width="450"] Visitors looks at the frame of an electric vehicle next to a Foton autonomous truck at the stall of the BAIC Group automobile maker at the IEEV New Energy Vehicles Exhibition in Beijing, China[/caption] BEIJING — Having...
CGTN, November 20, 2018 Bill Russo was interviewed by the China Global Television Network on the developments related to China's automotive and Electric Vehicle market. Click here to view the full program. The interview begins at minute 31 of the program. ...
Shanghai, China, November 11, 2018 [caption id="attachment_17129" align="aligncenter" width="751"] Bill Russo chaired the 2018 Global Powertrain Conference and Awards Ceremony[/caption] TOPIC: China’s Auto Industry in the Age of Disruption – The Birth of the “Automobility” Business Model For global automakers and their suppliers, China represents the greatest opportunity for...
Bloomberg News, October 17, 2018 [caption id="attachment_17100" align="alignnone" width="306"] A Tesla Model S at the Shanghai showroom.Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg[/caption] Tesla Inc.’s breakthrough deal to secure land for a Shanghai factory commits the electric-car maker to a multibillion-dollar investment just as the Chinese vehicle market falters. The company secured...
Bloomberg News, September 27, 2018 Wan Gang pushed China to leapfrog the West in electric vehicles. At this year’s Beijing Auto Show, a retired Chinese bureaucrat bent down to run his hands over the hood of a sleek sports coupe billed as the world’s fastest battery-powered car, and...