Latest news with #Changchun
Reuters
21-05-2025
- Automotive
- Reuters
China's FAW Trucks aims for 10,000 sales a year in Middle East, chairman says
ABU DHABI, May 21 (Reuters) - FAW Trucks, China's largest truck maker by sales, believes it will be able to eventually sell more than 10,000 trucks a year in the Middle East and is seeking local partners to reach that goal, its chairman said on Wednesday. Li Sheng, chairman of FAW Trucks ( opens new tab, said as part of this effort to more aggressively court the market, they were speeding up the construction of an assembly plant in Saudi Arabia, which had started a trial project on electric trucks. He did not give a timeline for when they believed they could reach such a scale. The unit, which also makes other types of vehicles such as tractors, sold 214,000 medium and heavy trucks last year. It exported 57,000 vehicles but did not disclose how many were trucks. "We see an accelerated trend of deploying new technologies in the logistics sector in the region," he told Reuters on the sidelines of the World New Energy Vehicle Congress in Abu Dhabi. "So we are seeking local partners and introducing high-end products." Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Latin America were also target overseas markets, Li added, citing Brazil in particular, as FAW Trucks eventually aims to sell 500,000 vehicles annually with 36% of those going abroad. FAW Trucks, whose Chinese name is FAW Jiefang, is a unit of Changchun-based FAW. FAW also owns other car brands such as Hongqi, or Red Flag, known to be former state leader Chairman Mao Zedong's favourite car brand.
South China Morning Post
10-05-2025
- Automotive
- South China Morning Post
BMW, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz recall nearly 70,000 vehicles in China over safety concerns
Carmakers including BMW Toyota and Mercedes-Benz are recalling a total of 69,793 vehicles in China due to potential safety risks, according to the market regulator, as authorities heighten safety oversight in the industry following a recent fatal crash involving a Xiaomi electric vehicle (EV). Advertisement From June 25, BMW's China unit would recall 26,766 domestically produced vehicles and 80 imported cars due to a defect in the power connector that could pose a fire hazard, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said in a post on its website on Friday. FAW Toyota, the Japanese carmaker's joint venture in China, would recall 10,892 vehicles, including 93 imported cars, beginning Friday, the SAMR said in a separate post. It cited issues with loose suspension bolts that could affect vehicle stability while driving. Also on Friday, Mercedes-Benz would start recalling 31,874 vehicles, including four imported units, to address fire hazards and installation issues with the air-conditioning condensate drain line, the SAMR said. British brand Genesis will recall 181 imported vehicles because of problems with the dashboard. Chinese workers assemble Toyota vehicles at a plant in Changchun, northeast Jilin province. Photo: Costfoto/Future Publishing via Getty Images The latest recall is nearly 10 times larger than last month, when 11 car brands recalled 7,200 vehicles. It follows a series of measures by Beijing aimed at improving car safety, which was a dominant theme during China's largest car show that took place in Shanghai last month.
