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BYD, a Chinese carmaker once dismissed by Tesla’s CEO, claims to have outpaced western rivals with charging tech that’s as fast as filling petrol engines
Tesla’s boss, Elon Musk, once thought the idea that China’s BYD could compete with his company was . In 2011, he smugly the Chinese carmaker as unimpressive, its products unattractive and its technology “not very strong”. He’s not laughing now – and not just because Tesla’s stock has plummeted amid a by motorists protesting against his embrace of politics. More pressingly, Mr Musk, like other western carmakers, has been by BYD.
Last week, the Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer new charging technology that, it says, is capable of delivering 400km (249 miles) of driving range in just five minutes – as quick as filling up a petrol car. The system, released next month, will be fitted in two EVs, priced from 270,000 yuan (£29,000) – comparable to Tesla’s most affordable model in China. Yet BYD claims to Tesla’s kilometres-per-minute charging rate. Technological supremacy at a competitive price may help to explain why now sells seven times as many cars in China as .

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Meeting with Senator Steve Daines comes as China hopes to reach a deal to avert further US tariff pressure
Republican senator Steve Daines, a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, met the Chinese premier, Li Qiang, in Beijing on Sunday, as China hopes to reach a deal to avert further tariff pressure from Washington.
The meeting marks the first time a US politician has visited China since Trump took office in January. Earlier this month, China’s ministry of foreign affairs that China will “fight to the end” with the US in a “tariff war, trade war or any other war”.

Premier Li Qiang hoped that entrepreneurs would defend and promote globalisation and 'resist unilateralism and protectionism'.

Chinese Premier Li Qiang said that Beijing and Washington should choose dialogue instead of confrontation during his meeting with U.S. Senator Steve Daines.

U.S. Republican Senator Steve Daines met Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing with a group of seven American executives on Sunday, following an annual business summit in the Chinese capital attended by ...

Chinese Premier Li Qiang urged countries to open up their markets to combat "rising instability and uncertainty" at a business forum in Beijing on Sunday, as China braces for further U.S. tariff ...

His attempts to bully and exploit the weak hark back to an era when the US emulated the worst aspects of the British empire
Donald Trump’s imperial presidency is a tawdry, threadbare affair. The emperor has no clothes to cloak his counterfeit rule. Lacking crown and robes, he resorts to vulgar ties and baseball caps. His throne is but a bully pulpit, his palace a pokey, whitewashed house, his courtiers mere common hacks. His royal edicts – executive orders – are judicially contested. And while he rages like Lear, his critics are publicly crucified or thrown to the lions at Fox News.
Yet for all his crudely plebeian ordinariness, a parvenu imperialism is Trump’s global offer, his trademark deal and most heinous crime. He peddles it against the tide of history and all human experience, as if invasion, genocide, racial inequality, economic exploitation and cultural conquest had never been tried before. If it wasn’t clear already, it is now. .

The Chinese government criticized lawmakers after they sent a letter to several American universities asking for information about visiting Chinese students studying in American schools. Chairman of ...

Senator Steve Daines said in an interview that in meetings with Chinese officials, he called for talks between President Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping.

Lewis Hamilton takes his first win for Ferrari on only his second outing for the team with a dominant victory in the sprint race at the Chinese Grand Prix.

U.S. Senator Steve Daines, a strong supporter of President Donald Trump, met with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng with warm exchanges in front of journalists on Saturday as tensions between their ...