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The Big Read – SAIC (6/6) – The Chinese-American friendship of SAIC and General Motors
In Europe, SAIC is often regarded as the extension of Volkswagen in China, but the company has actually a much more intimate relationship with...
The Big Read – SAIC (5/6) – Volkswagen, also China’s people’s car
The name Volkswagen literally means a "car for the people" and the brand achieved this successfully in the West with the Beetle and later...
The Big Read – SAIC (4/6) – Volvo buses, Iveco trucks and an old Seat Ibiza
With its own-brands and the joint ventures with Volkswagen and General Motors, SAIC is very successful in the passenger car market. The company is...
The Big Read – SAIC (3/6) – Becoming British, independent brands built on MG Rover and Maxus
The last two weeks we revisited SAIC's corporate history from a bird's eye view. Now we'll take an in-depth look at its several business...
The Big Read – SAIC (2/6) – The bigger, the better
Last week we explored the early history of SAIC, when it made one of China's iconic cars for a long time. Now we will...
The Big Read – SAIC (1/6) – Birth of a giant
SAIC is China's largest car manufacturer. The Shanghai based company achieves this feat through two of the most successful joint ventures in the country...
Solid-state battery explained. When it’s coming to mass production?
Did you know that lithium batteries were solid-state before they started using liquid electrolyte, as the batteries in our electric cars today? The liquid...
The Big Read – Human Horizons & HiPhi
The only car from a Chinese brand I ever drove (living in the Netherlands), was a Sokon K-series minitruck. One day the gardener at...
The Big Read – DearCC & Enovate
Dianka Automobile is a small electric car start-up and we probably wouldn't have heard much of it, when Jia Yueting's LeEco empire (see last...
The Big Read – LeSEE & Faraday Future
"Great ideas, but really bad with money" is possibly the shortest description of the main protagonist in today's story, Jia Yueting. For a while...