Price cuts announced by Tesla in China on January 6 upset customers who had already bought the company's cars so much that protests were staged in front of some stores

The US automaker slashed prices for all versions of its Model 3 and Y vehicles, which, along with a reduction in October, amount to a 13% to 24% reduction in prices from September.

Rival Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD and the budget-EV joint venture of General Motors in China both outsold the US carmaker

BYD captured China's middle-class market with affordable and locally made EVs, pushing ahead of Elon Musk's Tesla, the SCMP said

Zhu's title of Greater China VP remains unchanged and he continues to hold the position of the US electric vehicle-maker's most senior executive for sales in the rest of Asia

Tesla's Korean outlet was fined $2.2m for failing to tell customers its EVs' driving range would drop significantly in cold weather. Meanwhile, the group delivered a record 1.3m vehicles in 2022

Tesla and its suppliers have been falling sick in the current wave of infections in China, posing challenges to operations at the plant

The move has fuelled talk among colleagues he is being groomed for a bigger role in Tesla, at a time when chief executive Elon Musk has been distracted by Twitter

Buyers have been cancelling orders to buy Tesla electric vehicles because of Elon Musk's "toxic behaviour" since he took over Twitter, a new report says

Toyota has been reviewing a $30 billion, three-stage plan for developing and releasing electric vehicles it announced late last year

It has not been an established practice for the plant to shut down for a year-end holiday, which will cut planned production by a third

The US automaker plans to start selling its EVs in Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy via online channels