Ford Motor said Monday it will begin construction on a new plant in Nanchang city, capital of east China's Jiangxi province, next year.
Media reports last summer from China said the government plans to invest 100 billion yuan ($15 billion) to support the development of electric vehicles and advanced battery technology in the country.
The Scirocco Cup China 2010 competition named for Volkswagen's sports coupe held its season finale on Dec 5 at the Guangdong International Circuit racecourse.
Skoda Auto, the Czech unit of Volkswagen Group, said on Dec 10 that it will begin local production of its compact SUV Yeti in early 2013 at the joint venture between Volkswagen and Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp.
BYD Co Ltd is in talks with officials in Los Angeles to supply all-electric battery buses in the city, Reuters repoted Sunday, citing a senior company executive as saying on Sunday.
The Chinese government introduced support policies this year to boost the new-energy auto industry. Hefei is one of five Chinese cities in the pilot program for the new subsidies. The other four are Shanghai, Changchun, Shenzhen and Hangzhou.
China's auto sales are expected to reach 18 million units this year as sales in the first 11 months hit 16.4 million units, figures released Thursday by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) showed.
Online shopping can help one buy a book, a T-shirt, or a cell phone. Now, even cars can be purchased on the Internet with just a few clicks of a mouse.
More than 1,280,000 cars, multi-purpose vehicles, sports-utility vehicles and minivans were sold in November, up 27 percent from a year earlier and 10.5 percent from October, said the China Passenger Car Association on Tuesday.
BYD Company Limited's first vehicle to hit the US road might be an all-electric bus and the US market is set to be the company's largest overseas market.
China's leading private-run carmaker, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, began selling cars online Monday to tap into the purchasing power of the nation's hundreds of millions of netizens.
China will not extend tax incentives for small cars next year as the government moves to phase out stimulus measures that helped the country weather the global financial crisis, Reuters reported on Dec 6.