Nissan Motor said on Monday its April sales in China increased 1.1% from a year earlier to 122,846 vehicles, as the country is recovering from the coronavirus. Overall auto sales increased 4.4% in April, data from the country’s biggest auto industry body, China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), showed. China’s lockdown to control the spread of the […]
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Ford ventures saw sales growth in April in China as market rebounds
Two ventures of U.S. automaker Ford Motor in China have reported year-on-year sales increase for April, showing that the world’s biggest auto market has started to recover from coronavirus crisis. Ford’s major joint venture with Chongqing Changan Automobile sold 20,465 vehicles in April, increasing 38.3% from the same period a year earlier, Changan stated in […]
Nissan’s April auto sales in China show significant recovery
Nissan Motor’s vehicle sales in China this month nearly recovered to the prior year’s level following a 45% decline in March which was mainly related to the impact of the coronavirus. The data comes from two sources with knowledge of the Japanese automaker’s preliminary data. The data reinforces growing optimism that China, the world’s biggest […]
China automobile business is showing recovery, says Daimler
German automaker Daimler has seen business stabilize in China after the country ended coronavirus lockdowns, a senior manager at the automaker informed a newspaper on Sunday. “In China alone, we sold about 50,000 vehicles again in March. That makes us confident,” said Markus Schaefer, managing board member for production, according to Bild am Sonntag newspaper. […]
Volkswagen sees car sales in China on recovery course
Volkswagen Group stated sales of its cars declined by 23% on the year to 2 million cars in the January to March period but is hopeful that the Chinese market would recover soon given the reports of reduction in coronavirus crisis in the country. China is the automaker’s single biggest market accounting for a big […]
Ford’s first-quarter China vehicle sales declined 35% due to coronavirus
Ford Motor stated on Thursday that its China vehicle sales in the first three months this year declined 34.9% from a year ago to 88,770 units, as the novel coronavirus epidemic hit demand in the world’s biggest automobile market. The automaker said that nonetheless, all its dealers in China had restarted work and its sales […]
Renault to start building only electric vehicles for China
Renault stated Tuesday that it would start building only electric vehicles for China’s passenger car market, moving away from conventional internal combustion engines and also its joint venture with Dongfeng. The strategy shift comes after years of declining sales in China, where Renault hoped its 50-50 venture with Dongfeng, declared in 2013 and focused on […]
China’s March automobile sales dropped 43.3% says CAAM
Auto sales in China dropped an annual 43.3% in March, a slower pace of decline compared to the last month as the world’s biggest auto market is affected following the coronavirus outbreak, data revealed on Friday. Auto sales in February in the country had dropped 79% as the pandemic reduced demand. Still, March marked 21 […]
Honda back to work in Wuhan with temperature checks and masks
Honda has resumed pre-virus production levels in the plant located in Wuhan, China after the country removed lockdown restrictions from the location. Temperature checkpoints and posters telling employees to keep more than a meter apart at Japanese automaker Honda Motor’s reopened plant in the Chinese city of Wuhan show how the coronavirus pandemic has created […]
Nissan’s China sales declined 44.9% in March due to coronavirus
Japanese automaker Nissan stated on Wednesday its sales in China dropped 44.9% from a year earlier to 73,297 units in March, as the coronavirus epidemic keeps to hitting the world’s biggest car market. Nissan, which has a joint venture with Hubei-based Dongfeng Motor, said it is observing signs of recovery in the market, according to […]
General Motors’ first-quarter China car sales fell 43 percent
General Motors vehicle sales in China dropped 43.3% in the first three months of this year compared with the same period in 2019, the company stated on Friday, as the coronavirus pandemic declined demand in the world’s biggest auto market. The coronavirus pandemic originated in China and has killed 3,329 people in China. Though these […]
China may ease electric car quotas, delay emission rules to increase production
China is considering temporarily easing quotas designed to increase production of electric cars to help automakers hit by the coronavirus pandemic to revive declining sales, people knowledgeable with the matter said. Policymakers in the world’s biggest auto market may also postpone the implementation of a new emission particle restriction by six months to assist the auto industry, […]
China may release new policies to encourage auto demand, says minister
China may release new policies to encourage demand for automobiles, with the country’s auto industry still dealing with difficulties, Xin Guobin, vice minister of industry and information technology, stated on Monday. There is still not enough demand for automobiles, Xin informed reporters, as the outbreak of the coronavirus has significantly cut private consumption. About 81,518 people in […]
Peugeot restarts car production in Wuhan
French automaker Peugeot’s joint venture in China with Dongfeng Motor Group stated on Wednesday it had resumed car production at its plant in Wuhan city. Wuhan was the epicenter of China’s coronavirus outbreak. The joint venture is also making vehicles from two other manufacturing bases in Chengdu and Xiangyang. A total of 81,218 cases of […]
China automakers seek government relief because of coronavirus
Automakers in China are asking the government to help after industry-wide sales dropped 79% in February to mark their biggest ever monthly drop, with demand hit by the coronavirus outbreak. Their wish list includes cuts to the purchase tax on smaller automobiles, measures to support sales in rural markets and simplifying car emission requirements, the […]
