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The outbound trade in electric vehicles built in China, and the sales positions those cars hold in Europe, Southeast Asia, the Gulf and other importing markets.
Chinese brands now take about 10% of new-car sales in Europe, up from roughly 1% five years ago, the New York Times reported. Citi Research forecasts as much as 30% by 2035 without regulation, and the barriers that would stop it raise prices for the same buyers.
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Geely Auto, which sold just over 3 million cars last year, is building a Canadian dealer and service network ahead of first sales in 2027. Its cars must fit inside a Canadian quota of 49,000 Chinese-built EVs a year that BYD and Chery are also chasing, Quartz reported.
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Ford CEO Jim Farley says Europe is too late to stop Chinese carmakers, which sold one in seven Western European battery EVs in early 2026. He wants Washington to take its time before letting them sell in the US.
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KAMA's seven-month count of 237,032 registrations is already past all of last year, but Tesla's 66,376 sales in Korea now put Hyundai third in EVs in its own home market, with Kia still ahead on 85,444.
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The battery reading that would settle a used EV's price sits behind a diagnostic port dealers rarely bother to plug into, which leaves age and warranty coverage doing the pricing in every market that bought these cars.
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