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He is also refreshingly open about how he wants the company to be perceived, and which rival he most aspires to beat: Today, Porsche is our target and our benchmark.  As with the German brand, Feng admits that Lotus will need to diversify beyond sports cars,…

Lotus is working on an all-electric hypercar and, according CEO Phil Popham, it will be extraordinary. The British car manufacturer announced the Type 130 roughly one month ago after weeks of speculation that it was teaming up with Williams to develop such a…

SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Lured by hopes that China’s retail investors could become major players in global currency markets, foreign brokers are brazenly chasing business in a gray area of the country’s online trading sector, even as Beijing vows to wip…

smart has revealed that by 2020, it will completely switch its entire portfolio over from combustion engines to electric drives. Before that, in a farewell bid, the automaker decided to release this black and yellow specimen – the smart Final Collector’s Edit…

Lotus is looking to turn a money loser into a winner. The British sports car maker said it's ready to hire 200 new engineers as it steps up its turnaround plan, thanks to its new Chinese owner, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group. The firm's CEO Phil Popham told Th…

Volvo wants to make sure the Volvo and Polestar brands are major players in the electric vehicle space and took some major steps today to make sure that plan never runs out of juice. The Swedish brand owned by Chinese company Geely announced today it has sig…

Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo Cars, owned by China's Geely, said Wednesday it had signed long-term agreements with CATL and LG Chem to supply lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles. The deals with the Chinese and South Korean groups, two of the …

SEOUL/BEIJING — Swedish carmaker Volvo said on Wednesday it had signed long-term battery supply deals with Asian firms LG Chem and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd (CATL), as it pushes its EV target of 50 percent of sales by 2025. The companies said th…

The deals with Chinese and South Korean groups CATL and LG Chem, two of the leading firms in the industry, "represent a major step towards realizing Volvo Cars' ambitious electrification strategy", Volvo Cars said in a statement. Volvo Cars has pledged to of…

The Volvo Car Group has signed long-term, "multi-billion dollar" deals with two major battery makers in Asia. In an announcement Wednesday, the car firm said that the agreements with firms CATL and LG Chem would ensure a supply of lithium ion batteries for it…