CHINA: BMW CEO Urges China Engagement, Geely Eyes UK Production and GWM’s Chair Talks Quality | 20 Feb 2026
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Martyn Lee
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Potential. |
| 0:02.0 | Potential can sometimes feel daunting, scary. |
| 0:06.0 | But today's the day you decide to act on it, |
| 0:10.0 | with a higher technical qualification. |
| 0:13.0 | Designed with employers, it will give you the skills you need to land the job you want, |
| 0:18.0 | because today is your day. When anything is possible, if you make it happen. |
| 0:25.3 | It all starts with skills. See how you can get started. Search skills for life. Potential. Potential can |
| 0:33.5 | sometimes feel daunting, scary. But today's the day you decide to act on it with a higher technical qualification. |
| 0:43.2 | Designed with employers, it will give you the skills you need to land the job you want |
| 0:47.8 | because today is your day. |
| 0:51.5 | When anything is possible, if you make it happen. It all starts with skills. See how you can |
| 0:57.7 | get started. Search skills for life. Welcome back to EV News China. Today, BMW CEO urges China engagement. |
| 1:05.7 | G. Lee, I's UK production. And Great Wall Motors chair talks quality. Plus stay tuned. Later in the show, |
| 1:12.3 | I'll tell you how Gang Feng lithium, a battery supplier to Changan and Hyundai, has entered |
| 1:18.4 | mass production of hybrid solid liquid batteries. Welcome to EV News China, the podcast dedicated to |
| 1:24.8 | the world's largest EV market. Every day I bring you headlines, |
| 1:28.1 | insights and analysis from the heart of China's booming EV industry and decode how fast-moving |
| 1:33.2 | developments in the east shape the global landscape. Let's start with BMW's chief executive, |
| 1:38.8 | Oliver Zipsa, warning that Europe risks future growth if it ignores China and the world's largest |
| 1:46.0 | EV market. He made the case for engagement ahead of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's first state |
| 1:51.9 | visit to Beijing. Zipzer will join a business delegation traveling with Merz to China next week. |
| 1:58.3 | The group also include CEOs of Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz. |
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