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China Passenger Car Association

(乘用车市场信息联席会)

乘用车市场信息联席会

China Passenger Car Association (CPCA): A prominent Beijing-based professional association, the CPCA operates as a non-profit entity under the China Automobile Dealers Association. Its primary mission involves collecting and analysing comprehensive data on China’s vast passenger car market, including New Energy Vehicles. The CPCA provides crucial insights into sales, production, and market trends, offering forecasts and assessing the impact of government policies like trade-in programmes. Widely cited as an authoritative source, the association plays a significant role in supporting and understanding the development of the world’s largest automotive consumer market.

China Passenger Car Association

(乘用车市场信息联席会)

Xiaomi’s SU7 becomes China’s first Tesla killer, outselling the Model 3

Tesla’s grip on China’s premium sedan segment has loosened, as a bruising price war reshapes the EV landscape.

Major foreign carmakers set to stage a comeback in China this year: analysts

Beijing-Ottawa deal reinforces China’s dominance in EV industry, analysts say

Chinese automotive suppliers speed up localisation to boost global market share

International carmakers’ orders from Chinese vendors are an endorsement of the quality and competitiveness of their products, analyst says.

China’s subsidy change adds to EV makers’ stress, while petrol cars gain

Typical subsidy on an EV drops by around US$1,150, changing buyer calculations and exacerbating the sector’s profitability woes.

China’s EV makers face slowdown in export growth after doubling in 2025

Chinese carmakers sold more than 2.6 million units to overseas markets last year, up 104 per cent from a year earlier, association says.

China-EU deal on EVs marks rare agreement in frosty relations

The EU will waive tariffs on China-made battery electric vehicles if carmakers set a minimum price that offsets the effect of subsidies.

Xiaomi’s refreshed SU7 turns up the heat on Tesla in China’s EV race

Updated SU7 model offers longer range – more than 900km (560 miles) on a single charge – and other advanced features.

Tesla’s China sales hit record as EV buyers race to beat tax increase

US carmaker’s share of world’s biggest EV market declines to slightly more then 4 per cent amid stern challenge from local rivals.

Weak year-end sales cloud China’s EV outlook, keeping price-war fears alive

A weaker-than-expected year-end rush and falling deliveries at major brands are stoking fears of another price war.

China’s EV sector doubles down on discounts and cheap financing as growth cools

Carmakers are shifting from straight price cuts to subsidised loans and feature-packed models, as China’s EV price war drags on.

China rolls out trade-in funding for 2026 as campaign to spur spending continues

The programme, which has helped stimulate consumption increases, will continue to subsidise purchases of big-ticket goods and refurbishments.

High-end car sales sink in China as cheaper brands trump European marques

Many buyers were swayed by a 20,000 yuan (US$2,830 ) trade-in subsidy offered by the government for purchasing electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles.

Tesla’s China plant sees shipment surge ahead of subsidy expiry

However, the rebound may not be sufficient to help the company reclaim lost ground in China, an analyst says.

Chinese EV makers step on gas abroad amid weakening mainland sales

A growing export drive by Chinese EV makers aims to soak up overcapacity and secure better profits as incentives fade.

Could battery fires be the Achilles’ heel of China’s electric vehicle industry?

A series of high-profile incidents has triggered a public debate about safety within the rapidly growing industry.

Tesla and global carmakers race against Chinese EV rivals at expo

At CIIE, global brands like Tesla and Volkswagen are under pressure to win back market share from local competitors.

China car sales to slump in 2026 if Beijing scraps subsidies, JPMorgan says

The bank predicts flat sales at best – and a 5 per cent decline at worst – because incentives have merely brought demand forward.

Global monthly EV sales hit record 2.1 million, with 62% Chinese-made

Worldwide September deliveries of EVs – including battery-only and hybrid models – jump 24 per cent from a year earlier.

New models, expiring tax breaks drive record pure-EV sales in China

Deliveries of battery-electric cars rise 28.5 per cent from a year earlier to a record 826,000 units in September.

China’s car dealers feel squeeze between price war, e-commerce rivals

Industry consortium pleads for support as market share continues to slide, while an analyst says a turnaround is ‘unlikely’.

Tesla’s Shanghai factory deliveries hit record as Model Y variant woos buyers

Compared to its 83,192 deliveries in August, the Tesla Shanghai plant posted a 9.2 per cent month-on-month increase.

China’s EV giants head overseas as domestic price war bites

China’s EV makers ship 2.01 million pure electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles overseas in the first eight months of the year.

China’s state-owned car giants embrace home-grown tech to dominate EV market

State-owned carmakers like SAIC and FAW are tying up with domestic firms to recover market share from nimble privately owned rivals.

China will be exporting 10 million cars per year by 2030, association forecasts

There is also still ‘vast potential’ to increase car sales in China’s less developed regions, association head says.

Why Mexico’s big tariff hike on Chinese cars won’t cripple their competitiveness

For Chinese carmakers with global operations, there is still some wiggle room, while setting up factories in Mexico could be a bumpy road, according to analysts.

Tesla continues its skid in China as August sales and market share fall

US carmaker hands 57,152 Shanghai-made Model 3 and Model Y vehicles over to customers on the mainland last month.

Chinese EV makers’ budget-friendly models power sales in August

Leapmotor, Xpeng and Galaxy post record-breaking sales, thanks to their inexpensive EV models.