China’s $143 billion push to dominate the global EV industry

29 October 2025 at 05:00

Chinese electric-vehicle companies have invested big bucks over the past decade to establish their global supremacy. Companies such as CATL and BYD, among others, poured $143 billion into foreign EV...

Do India’s EV policies discriminate against China? Experts weigh in

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

24 October 2025 at 05:00

China is questioning India’s electric vehicle subsidies on the global stage. The world’s largest EV producer, China has requested the World Trade Organization to settle a dispute with India over incentive...

Vehicles for Vinfast roll off an assembly line at a factory in Thoothukudi, India.

EVs are depreciating much faster than gas-powered cars

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

17 October 2025 at 05:00

The resale value of electric vehicles is collapsing worldwide, hurting private owners and fleet operators. The crisis became especially apparent when BluSmart, India’s pioneering all-electric ride-hailing service, collapsed in April...

Tesla starts slashing prices amid costly battle with BYD

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

9 October 2025 at 04:00

Tesla has cut prices on its bestselling models to compete with Chinese rivals that have been giving it a run for its money. On October 7, the company reduced the...

A worker cleans a Tesla Model Y electric vehicle at the newly opened Tesla Inc. store at Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) in Mumbai, India, on Tuesday, July 15, 2025. Tesla opened its first India showroom, showcasing Model Y cars priced at nearly $70,000, as Elon Musk's electric-vehicle maker looks to tap new markets and offset slowing sales where it's already well established. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg via Getty Images

China charges ahead as South Korea’s battery giants lose their spark

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

30 September 2025 at 05:00

China’s battery giants have pulled the plug on South Korea’s dominance in powering electric vehicles. South Korea’s three top EV battery makers — LG Energy Solution, SK On, and Samsung...

China won the electric car race. Up next: freight trucks

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

26 September 2025 at 05:00

China flooded the world with electric cars. Its next target is freight trucks. BYD, the Chinese automaker that overtook Tesla in sales of electric cars last year, now ships electric...

EV jobs are starting to slip away

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

4 September 2025 at 05:00

The electric vehicle industry is cutting staff faster than smoke. More than 30,000 workers have lost their positions at electric-vehicle makers and related industries worldwide over the past year, according...

Employees work on a Trumpchi brand vehicle production line at the Guangzhou Automobile Group Co. Ltd. (GAC) plant. Trumpchi, the Chinese auto brand established in 2010 and now preparing for U.S. sales, has become a topic of debate as owner GAC considers whether American consumers would love or hate the marque with a name similar to that of the controversial former U.S. president.

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Chinese EV makers are cashing in on Western luxury knockoffs

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya and Kinling Lo

28 August 2025 at 05:00

Chinese automakers are imitating not to flatter but to profit. Companies such as Chery, Xiaomi, and Zeekr appear to be drawing heavily from premium Western car designs, banking on familiar...

VinFast speeds into India after U.S. U-turn

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

4 August 2025 at 02:40

VinFast is building factories faster than it can sell cars. The Vietnamese electric-vehicle maker opened its first Indian factory on August 4, betting on expansion even as its existing plant...

Mr. Pham Sanh Chau, CEO of VinFast Asia and Mr. Ashwin Ashok Patil, Deputy CEO of Sales & Marketing at VinFast India at the at the Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2025 where Vinfast announced its first electric vehicles for the Indian market.

BYD distracted the world while Chinese EV peers staged a coup

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

22 July 2025 at 05:00

Everyone watched BYD overtake Tesla, and missed the quiet march of a pack of other Chinese automakers. Six of the world’s top 10 electric-vehicle sellers last year were Chinese. From...

A Geely electric vehicle at the Beijing Auto Show in April 2024.

Ride-hailing giants’ electric promises are stalling worldwide

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

17 July 2025 at 05:00

The biggest ride-hailing companies globally are struggling to keep their electric vehicle promises. In 2020, Uber, the world’s largest ride-hailing company, set a target for all its rides and deliveries...

Tesla finally enters India after a decade of false starts

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

16 July 2025 at 05:00

Tesla finally arrived in India — fashionably late to its own party. After almost a decade of broken promises and dashed hopes, Tesla opened its first showroom in Mumbai on...

Tesla opened its first India showroom at the Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai on Tuesday, July 15, 2025.

Meta’s grand WhatsApp fintech experiment in India has fizzled

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

7 July 2025 at 05:00

Meta’s fintech ambitions have failed to take off in India — the company’s largest market, with over 500 million WhatsApp users. When WhatsApp first began testing payments in India back...

India wants its own EV market, but needs China to get there

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

18 June 2025 at 05:00

India is betting on Chinese technology to keep its electric-vehicle transition on track. At a time when the U.S. is erecting trade barriers to keep Chinese EV giants at bay,...

India’s richest man can’t crack e-commerce, even with Shein

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By: Kunal Purohit and Ananya Bhattacharya

23 May 2025 at 05:00

Online retail continues to elude India’s richest man. The Shein India app, launched by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Retail in partnership with the Chinese fast-fashion giant, has struggled to gain traction...

India’s richest man can’t crack e-commerce, even with Shein

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By: Kunal Purohit and Ananya Bhattacharya

23 May 2025 at 05:00

Online retail continues to elude India’s richest man. The Shein India app, launched by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Retail in partnership with the Chinese fast-fashion giant, has struggled to gain traction...

Will India’s new satellite internet rules impact Starlink’s ambitions? We asked five experts

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

7 May 2025 at 07:03

India has just made it harder for Starlink to enter the market. Around two months after Starlink announced retail partnerships with the country’s leading telecom operators, India — home to...

Foxconn’s iPhone factory is fueling a real estate boom in a small Indian farming town

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

17 April 2025 at 05:00

Foxconn’s arrival is quickly changing a rural town in southern India into a real estate hot spot. Devanahalli, located on the outskirts of India’s tech hub, Bengaluru, is home to...

A Trump H-1B crackdown could hit Big Tech hard, with Amazon suffering most

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

24 March 2025 at 05:00

As U.S. President Donald Trump sends mixed signals on the H-1B visa program, Amazon could find itself in a tight spot. The $2 trillion tech giant has bagged the most...

Screaming customers, unpaid workers: Inside the chaotic demise of Indian online delivery pioneer Dunzo

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

20 March 2025 at 05:00

India’s booming quick-commerce sector saw a major casualty earlier this year. Dunzo, the first Indian startup to receive a direct investment from Google in 2017, shut down in January, leaving...

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