Lu Yi is leaving his post as vice president of the joint venture between Ford and Changan Auto. This is reported by the news portal Yicai. Lu gives personal reasons for his decision.Sebastian Haupt has been Manager Corporate Business Development China Vans at Mercedes-Benz AG since June. Haupt has been working for Daimler since 2008. […]
Since April, the carmaker Changan has been producing China’s first mass-produced fuel cell car, the “C385”. This could become a milestone for the hydrogen industry. The technology, which promises an even better environmental balance sheet than electric cars and even faster refueling, has so far been considered too inefficient for use in normal passenger cars. […]
Urs Thoma recently became coordinator for Denso in Beijing. The company manufactures automotive components.
Mr. Wambach, Shanghai’s lockdown to fight the pandemic was supposed to last four days. Now it’s been more than two months – while life in the rest of the world is returning to normal. How big is the damage to the German economy?China’s lockdowns will have a massive impact on global supply chains. While we […]
Critics feel vindicated: no progress on the human rights issue, independent media representatives were not allowed to accompany her on her trip to the Uyghur province of Xinjiang. Her visit provided the communist leadership with a propaganda success. There were even calls for her resignation. Now UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet has defended herself.In […]
the mobility issues are increasingly merging. This can be observed in China in particular, where it is particularly striking how the separation of the automobile and other means of transport will soon dissolve. We will therefore be broadening our spectrum in the future and taking up mobility topics in connection with China in general to […]
Xu Chengguang was appointed deputy minister of transportation. Most recently, Xu hadmade a name for himself at the Ministry of Transport for his work in issuing nationally acceptedtransport permits. These permits enabled truck drivers to deliver needed food and goods despite the country’s harsh lockdowns (China.Table reported).Martin Kruessmann has been Senior VP Project Manager China […]
TheSmart car brandhas already experienced several rebirths. But never has the small car from Mercedes been so revamped as now: The new Smart #1, which was created under the auspices of Chinese Geely car magnate and Daimler major shareholder Li Shufu, has little to do with the original model. The all-electric mini SUV is bigger, […]
Julian Konrad has recently been appointed Head of Evalution Electronics at SAIC Volkswagen in Shanghai. He previously worked for Audi China in Beijing for more than three and a half years.Richard Ketzscher joined BMW China at the beginning of May as Vehicle Project Leader for Quality Management for the X3. Prior to that, he had […]
For several weeks now, a number of companies in China have been operating in a so-called closed loop. For employees, this means that they eat, sleep and live at their place of work – usually in or near the factories. With European labor laws in mind, this seems an unimaginable situation. But even in the […]