Auto Industry Chinese Taxi 
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
At the same time, the survey results also suggest enthusiasm for autonomous robot-taxis. Though 58% of Chinese said they were confident in higher-level AVs’ ability to navigate safely from one place to another, responses in the other five countries ranged from 36% down to just 18%.
CleanTechnica EVs
AUGUST 10, 2024
In this article, I’m analyzing at a high level what is happening to the auto industry across propulsion types. For the purposes of this article, I assume that level 5 self-driving and driverless taxis don’t come for a while. I’ll break it down by region and also discuss individual companies.
Revenge of the Electric Car
JUNE 1, 2010
All-electric e6 vehicles made by BYD charge up in Shenzhen, where the cars are used as taxis. Auto industry executives said the subsidies are likely to apply only to vehicles produced in China, although that wasn’t clear from the government notice. BYD is in position to benefit from China’s electric-car subsidies.
The Truth About Cars
APRIL 5, 2024
Earlier today, Reuters reported that the automaker had ditched its efforts to develop the car and would look instead at developing autonomous taxis on the platform that would have underpinned it. It now seems that Tesla is following suit, despite repeated promises that it would develop a mass-market EV at a reasonable price.
The Truth About Cars
APRIL 24, 2023
BYD, China’s largest electric automaker, isn’t as gung-ho about autonomous vehicles as many other auto industry giants. Of course, automating jobs in Chinese factories isn’t as exciting as self-driving cars, but we’re a lot close to that reality than any sort of human-free taxis roaming freely.&
Revenge of the Electric Car
MAY 17, 2010
Similarly, in China, the sheer size of the auto industry and the country’s ambitious clean-energy goals suggest a potentially huge market for electric cars. China overtook the US last year as the largest auto market in the world. Still, Chinese auto-makers hesitate to mass-market their electric models domestically.
Baua Electric
MAY 14, 2024
Jeremiads lamenting China’s takeover of the global auto industry are everywhere these days. Each reaches basically the same conclusion: the global non-Chinese automakers will never be able to catch up unless they radically change their corporate mindsets. Three recent accounts stand out from the pack.
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