China's new-energy vehicle penetration continues to rise, and many carmakers are reducing investment in combustion models. The sales data tells a more complicated story.

Geely has overtaken Ford in European vehicle sales, becoming the largest Chinese automotive group in the region despite mounting trade barriers against Chinese-built electric vehicles.

Volvo Cars CEO Håkan Samuelsson has suggested that Geely, Zeekr and Lynk & Co could make use of Volvo’s existing European production capacity instead of investing in new factories.

At a time when China’s auto industry is being squeezed by its weakest profitability in a decade, Zeekr has crossed a milestone that few young carmakers can claim: more than 800,000 cumulative global deliveries in less than five years.

A Chinese electric vehicle brand turning a large SUV into one of the biggest draws at the Beijing auto show says as much about the country’s premium-car ambitions as it does about a single model.

Competition in the premium MPV segment is intense, with no shortage of contenders. Yet most remain constrained by three enduring forces: brand premium, rigid product definitions and narrowly defined usage scenarios. In a market shaped by homogeneity, the industry may be in need of a genuinely different challenger. The question is whether the Geely Galaxy V900 could play that role.