{"id":20765,"date":"2025-11-07T08:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/driving-competition-chinas-carmakers-in-race-to-dominate-europes-roads\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T08:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:37:16","slug":"driving-competition-chinas-carmakers-in-race-to-dominate-europes-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/driving-competition-chinas-carmakers-in-race-to-dominate-europes-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving competition: China\u2019s carmakers in race to dominate Europe\u2019s roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese manufacturers are using the electric transition to seize market share, with the UK as their gateway<\/p>\n<p>When Tesla wanted to catch the eye of British buyers, it put its cars and bright signage at a dealership in west London\u2019s prominent Hogarth roundabout. Exposure to half a million drivers every day helped the US carmaker to become the dominant electric vehicle seller in the UK. Yet drivers passing by that site now see something different: twin Chinese brands Omoda and Jaecoo, both owned by the state-controlled manufacturer Chery.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese cars are on a roll across Europe \u2013 they outsold Korean rivals in western Europe for the first time in September. That success is highly reliant on the UK. Of the half a million Chinese cars sold in western Europe between January and September, 30% were bought by Britons, according to Matthias Schmidt, a Berlin-based automotive analyst.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/nov\/07\/china-in-push-to-dominate-europe-electric-vehicle-market-with-uk-as-gateway\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e4fd784afe55eb2b51e922e0ed28cad4696afb0e\/143_0_2915_2333\/master\/2915.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c821f78f1400db0792626aa2d5767609\" title=\"Driving competition: China\u2019s carmakers in race to dominate Europe\u2019s roads\" \/>Chinese manufacturers are using the electric transition to seize market share, with the UK as their gateway<br \/>\nWhen Tesla wanted to catch the eye of British buyers, it put its cars and bright signage at a dealership in west London\u2019s prominent Hogarth roundabout. Exposure to half a million drivers every day helped the US carmaker to become the dominant electric vehicle seller in the UK. Yet drivers passing by that site now see something different: twin Chinese brands Omoda and Jaecoo, both owned by the state-controlled manufacturer Chery.<br \/>\nChinese cars are on a roll across Europe \u2013 they outsold Korean rivals in western Europe for the first time in September. That success is highly reliant on the UK. Of the half a million Chinese cars sold in western Europe between January and September, 30% were bought by Britons, according to Matthias Schmidt, a Berlin-based automotive analyst. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese manufacturers are using the electric transition to seize market share, with the UK as their gateway When Tesla wanted to catch the eye of British buyers, it put its cars and bright signage at a dealership in west London\u2019s prominent Hogarth roundabout. Exposure to half a million drivers every day helped the US carmaker &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/driving-competition-chinas-carmakers-in-race-to-dominate-europes-roads\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Driving competition: China\u2019s carmakers in race to dominate Europe\u2019s roads<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20765"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}