China's pure-EV market has become brutally competitive, and several familiar constraints remain unresolved: range anxiety, charging queues and weaker low-temperature performance. 

At a time when China's auto industry often speaks as if petrol cars are already history, FAW-Volkswagen used its 35th anniversary spring product event to send a different message.  

 China's new-energy market is moving from spectacle to scrutiny. As NEVs become the mainstream choice, buyers are looking beyond headline specifications and asking harder questions: does the technology work in daily use, does it remain reliable over time, and does it still perform when conditions are less than ideal?

China's passenger-car market delivered a surprising data point in February. The average retail price reached about $25,000, up roughly $2,000 from about $23,000 a year earlier, a gain of nearly 9.1%.

China's automotive industry was again largely absent from CCTV's annual March 15 consumer-rights gala this year.  

GAC Honda entered 2026 under heavy pressure. A joint venture long associated with dependable Japanese engineering saw terminal sales fall sharply in the opening months.