2 byd: building innovation

B YD is the latest Chinese car brand to have decided that the most effective route to making money in Europe is via a mid-sized, £50,000, all-electric crossover. And so, here to try to force its way i

THE small-car segment has so far shunned plug-in hybrid powertrains, with affordable downsized petrol engines maintaining favour and EVs gaining in popularity. That makes the new BYD Atto 2 DM-i – a F

THE UK’s number one Chinese car company is a brand born 101 years ago in the verdant English countryside: MG Motor. No, we haven’t lost our minds: Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation snapped up t

In the late 1990s, a young Stella Li landed in Rotterdam from China with $30,000, a container load of lithium-ion batteries and an order from head office: “sell them to survive”. She clinched a deal w

UK importer Innovation Automotive is trying to grow fledgling brand SKYWELL sounds like a James Bond blockbuster, but is the minnow of the Chinese EV pack. Skyworth Auto emerged from a Nanjing bus com

IF you find yourself sitting in traffic or travelling down the motorway this week, take a look around you. What do you see? Chances are, there will be a handful of cars you barely recognise, from manu