In November, NEV sales were 177,000 units based on compulsory traffic insurance, an increase of 40.5% from the previous month.

On October 19, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment issued the Announcement on Standardising Import of Raw Materials of Secondary Copper and Secondary Cast Aluminium Alloy.

China has recently released the winter heating season policies for 2020/21, and while the initial view is that supply disruption may be less this year, there are still question marks over the impacts on demand.

Global sales of Tesla Model 3 exceeded 140,000 units, and BAIC planned to raise no more than 5.5 billion yuan for projects development.

China's new energy vehicle (NEV)  industry  is currently facing tough challenges as it enters a “painful period” after being affected by the decline of the NEV subsidy policy in 2019 and COVID-19. The development of the NEV industry remains as a focus of the Chinese government after the "two sessions” annual meetings chaired by the National People’s Congress (NPC). Various regions in China have introduced stimulus policies on the NEV market. 

Jiangsu Tafel New Energy Technology on May 17 kicked off construction of its phase II and III capacity of a power battery project, which is located at the Jiangning Development Zone, Nanjing.  

Hubei Linuo New Energy Technology has begun trial operations of its phase I capacity of a battery project for commercial new energy vehicles at the Shiyan New Industrial Zone, Hubei province.

This followed the wholesale deliveries of new energy passenger cars nearly quadrupled from a month ago to 56,000 units in March, as the business recovered from the fallout from the coronavirus crisis. 

Sales of automobiles in China recovered significantly from a month ago in March, rising 361.1% to 1.43 million units, with the car production jumping 399.2% to 1.42 million units, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) said on Friday. 

This was lifted by outstanding performance of the pure EV market