The Chinese government is planning to unify the electric car industry with a set of 15 new electric car standards which will cover manufacturing specifics in a bid to consolidate the electric car industry into one standard within China.
China is planning to become one of the big ‘electric car states’ in the next few years as its plans to lower its dependency on foreign oil, yet continue with rapid car sales at the same time. The different standards will cover 15 different areas of electric car standards and will cover …

Ford had a strong month in August this year, with Ford seeing a 24% sales increase in sales over August 2009. Ford delivered a grand total of 368,103 new passenger vehicles from January to August this year, a 42% increase over 2009 sales.
The Ford Focus continues to be Ford’s big seller in China with 13,039 units delivered in August alone, and marks the sixth month in a row where the Focus has sold more than 10,000 units, and the millionth China built Ford was delivered a customer in Lanzhou last …

Guangzhou Auto, like Beijing Auto, have been left behind in the State Owned Automakers great race to develop strong self developed brands for the Chinese market and beyond. Guangzhou Auto recently bought in Alfa-Romeo platforms and engines, on which to build its own cars, which will give them an impressive leap over their counterparts in terms of handling and responsiveness on the road.
Guangzhou Auto unveiled its VIP Auto Lounge concept car at this years Beijing Auto Show in April and you could easily see the Alfa DNA in the full …

The Audi A3 was recently succesfully introduced into China with 1.4TSI and 1.8TSI engine, but joint venture partners Audi and First Automobile Works are planning to capitalize on the A3′s recent media popularity by producing the yet to launch A3 Sedan in the Chinese market.
Audi have been without a compact sedan offering since they launched the best selling Audi A4 in Lengthened version, and has gone onto take a great slice of the mid size luxury sedan segment and has basically shut the door on its Germanic rivals in this …

Beijing Auto have been left out in the cold when it comes to self developed brands, and they are eager to catch up with the market leaders at SAIC who invested early and produced the Roewe and later MG series of cars. Beijing Auto are aggresively developing their own range of cars, some of which are Saab based models and others such as this C30 MPV that they are developing themselves:
Beijing Auto are partners with Mercedes Benz, so it could be possible that they have shared designs with Beijing from …