CPCA: Total Wholesale Vehicle Volume Expected to Reach 34.8 Million Units in 2026, Up 1% YoY

Recently, new progress has been made in Zimbabwe's lithium concentrate exports. Chinese-owned companies including Sinomine Resource Group, Shengxin Lithium Energy, and Yahua Group have confirmed the matter. It is learned that the quota recipients include but are not limited to four major Chinese-owned mines. The quotas are tentatively set for a period of six months, with allocations based on each mine's current concentrator capacity. The quota amounts may be subject to certain adjustments in the future.

The General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a notice on carrying out quality work in industry and information technology in 2026. The notice mentioned strengthening quality supervision and management. It called for coordinated efforts in central quality and food safety assessments, supporting national quality supervision and random inspection of products, conducting quality inspections on key products such as lithium batteries, PV modules, civil explosives, and radio transmission equipment, and strengthening supervision and inspection of production consistency of road motor vehicle products. It also called for guiding e-commerce platforms to carry out quality self-declarations for online-purchased products, intensifying random inspection efforts.

According to Xinhua News Agency, data recently released by the Netherlands' National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed that the total number of passenger cars in the Netherlands reached approximately 9.4 million units at the beginning of 2026, up nearly 2% from a year earlier, with nearly all of the increase attributable to electrified car models. Currently, the number of fully or partially electric-powered vehicles in the Netherlands has exceeded 2 million units, up nearly 6% from a year earlier, accounting for about one-fifth of total automobile ownership.