Welcome back to EV News China today. B.Y.D. and Gili fight over a factory. China cuts tariffs

and solid state battery standards. Plus stay tuned. Later in the show, I'll tell you why Poland

has banned Chinese-made vehicles from entering military bases. Welcome to EV News, China, the podcast

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We'll start with news of B.Y.D. and G. Lee over the same Mexican plant, Nissan and Mercedes are decided to sell up their

joint venture factory in Agua Calientes, Mexico. B.YD and Gile have now surfaced as the top bidders for the plant.

It's known as the Compass plant, the cooperative manufacturing plant, Agua Calientes.

Compass launched in 2017 alongside existing Nissan facilities. It has a capacity of 230,000 vehicles a year.

They built it to make the Mercedes GLB and Nissan's an infinity QX-50 and the QX-55.

But that product plan has now thinned out somewhat.

Mercedes pulled the GLB.

Nissan's not announced a model year refresh for those cars.

The sale lands as Nissan winds down elsewhere in Mexico. Its plant which

produced the Versa is shutting down. And for BYD or Gili, the compass plant offers more than just

spare capacity that's kind of floating around. Chinese brands have captured 20% of Mexico's

new car market and owning the plant would add localized production capacity to Mexico.

Reuters reported that Great Wall Motor, Cherry and Vinfast are also interested. The bidders bring

different baggage. BYD sells only vehicles with plug sockets on the side.

GD does make some vehicles with engines, but is obviously pushing hard into electrification.

Either way, local output would seed regional supply chain to extend Chinese automakers reach into Latin America as well.

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