{"id":29888,"date":"2025-06-18T15:59:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29888"},"modified":"2025-06-18T16:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T16:24:16","slug":"byd-and-other-chinese-carmakers-expand-sales-in-europe-despite-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29888","title":{"rendered":"BYD and Other Chinese Carmakers Expand Sales in Europe Despite Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BYD and other companies doubled their share of the car market after the European Union imposed higher tariffs on electric vehicles from China.<\/p>\n

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When the European Union last year imposed steep tariffs on electric cars made in China, it looked like a serious setback for BYD and other Chinese automakers.<\/p>\n

But the Chinese companies were not so easily discouraged. They pivoted to hybrids or gasoline-powered cars that were exempt from tariffs. They began importing less-expensive models. And they concentrated on countries like Italy and Spain, where German and French carmakers are less entrenched than in Northern Europe.<\/p>\n

Despite the tariffs, which are as high as 35 percent for certain companies, Chinese brands doubled their share of the European car market in April from a year earlier, according to registration data compiled by JATO Dynamics, a research firm. It was a potent demonstration of the flexibility and manufacturing prowess of BYD, Geely, Chery, SAIC and other Chinese manufacturers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese big, huge companies in China, they have the possibility of doing whatever they want,\u201d said Pier Giacomo Cappella, managing director of a chain of dealerships in Italy that sells DR brand cars manufactured by Chery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Some Chinese automakers design and produce new models in just six months, said Mr. Cappella, who also sells German brands including Porsche and Audi. \u201cThe Germans, they take at least two years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The DR models at one of his showrooms in Rome include a diesel off-road vehicle called the ICH-X K2. It strongly resembles a four-door Jeep Wrangler but, at 51,500 euros, or about $60,000, costs $10,000 less.<\/p>\n

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BYD and other companies doubled their share of the car market after the European Union imposed higher tariffs on electric vehicles from China.When the European Union last year imposed steep tariffs on electric cars made in China, it looked like a serious setback for BYD and other Chinese automakers.But the Chinese companies were not so easily discouraged. They pivoted to hybrids or gasoline-powered cars that were exempt from tariffs. They began importing less-expensive models. And they concentrated on countries like Italy and Spain, where German and French carmakers are less entrenched than in Northern Europe.Despite the tariffs, which are as high as 35 percent for certain companies, Chinese brands doubled their share of the European car market in April from a year earlier, according to registration data compiled by JATO Dynamics, a research firm. It was a potent demonstration of the flexibility and manufacturing prowess of BYD, Geely, Chery, SAIC and other Chinese manufacturers.\u201cThese big, huge companies in China, they have the possibility of doing whatever they want,\u201d said Pier Giacomo Cappella, managing director of a chain of dealerships in Italy that sells DR brand cars manufactured by Chery.Some Chinese automakers design and produce new models in just six months, said Mr. Cappella, who also sells German brands including Porsche and Audi. \u201cThe Germans, they take at least two years.\u201dThe DR models at one of his showrooms in Rome include a diesel off-road vehicle called the ICH-X K2. It strongly resembles a four-door Jeep Wrangler but, at 51,500 euros, or about $60,000, costs $10,000 less.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29890,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29891,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29888\/revisions\/29891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}