The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers predicts the country's new-vehicle sales will grow 4 percent to more than 26 million this year.

Honda shored up sales in China in 2020 as demand continued to accelerate as the year closed, but Nissan brand volume contracted along with the overall market. 

An extended, robust sales recovery since the pandemic battered the industry in the first quarter of 2020 enabled Mercedes-Benz, Audi and BMW to finish 2020 with record deliveries in China. 

Car and light-truck deliveries are expected to rise 7.5 percent to 21.7 million while new commercial vehicle demand will slip 10 percent to 4.6 million, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.

Semiconductors suppliers scaled back output during the pandemic lockdowns of early 2020 and now they are taking time to catch up to demand that is rapidly increasing. Toyota notified employees at its pickup assembly plant in San Antonio, Texas, that it will slow production of the full-sized Tundra pickup by about 40 percent for the remainder of the month of January.

Volvo Car Corp.’s China sales rose 7.6 percent to 166,300 in 2020 as a sustained rebound since April enabled the Swedish carmaker to overcome a 31 percent first-quarter decline caused by the coronavirus outbreak. 

While rebounding in the second half, General Motors’ 2020 China sales dropped 6.1 percent to 2.9 million, failing to overcome the impact of the coronavirus outbreak that raged in the first quarter.

Geely Automobile Holdings aims to boost annual sales this year by 16 percent to 1.53 million as demand for its vehicle lineup remains robust.

China's new-vehicle sales dipped 1.9 percent to 25.27 million last year, according to a preliminary tally the China Association of Automobile Manufacturer released Wednesday.

In recent years, dozens of Chinese cities have opened local roads to allow a growing team of self-driving technology companies to test robotaxis, a trend that promises to turn China into the world's largest market for autonomous vehicles in the not-distant future.

Harald Müller, president of Volkswagen’s Jetta subbrand, passed away in Germany, according to information VW Group CEO Herbert Diess disclosed via his LinkedIn account this week.

BYD said 246 electric buses it delivered to Dutch customer Keolis Nederland BV went into service in the Netherlands this month. 

Dongfeng expects to raise 21 billion yuan ($3.2 billion) from the dual listing, with 9.2 billion yuan to be used for development of electric vehicles, including products for a newly created premium brand, Voyah. 

The leading Chinese light-truck maker broke ground in late November on an engine factory on a site adjacent to its vehicle assembly plant in central Russia’s Tula Oblast region. 

Carmakers are warning of dwindling supplies of microchips, as the industry rebounds from the pandemic and leaves chipmakers flatfooted.