Welcome back to the podcast today. N-EV sales rebound in China.

Xiaomi loses a court appeal and the BYD Shark 6 for Europe.

Plus stay tuned later in the show.

I'll tell you about China's CATL scaling back its ambitious plans in Europe.

Welcome to EV News, China, the podcast dedicated to the world's largest EV market.

Each day, I bring you the latest

headlines, insights and analysis from the heart of China's booming EV industry and decode how

fast-moving developments in the East as shaping the global EV landscape. We'll start with

news of China's EV passenger retail sales, N-EV sales in the first 19 days of the month, have rebounded.

The China Passenger Car Association reporting 632,000. It's N-EV sales in the first 19 days of the month have rebounded.

The China Passenger Car Association reporting 632,000 N-EVs sold in the first 19 days.

That's up 5% year-on-year, up 2% month-on-month.

Retail sales in the first 12 days were 367,000 units, so slightly down.

So we had a really good couple of weeks more recently.

There was also the National Day and Mid-Aautum Festival holidays, which affected sales.

The year-to-date, passenger EV retail sales, now 9.5 million in China, up 23% year-to-date last year. Passenger, N-EV wholesale deliveries,

676,000 in the first 19 days. That's up 6% year-on-year, 5% month-on-month,

and cumulative wholesale sales, year-to-date 11.12 million units. That's up 30% on the same period

from 2024. Now, moving on,

Chinese automakers captured 7.4% of Europe's passenger car market in September. It's led by,

well, the usual suspects of their SAIC's MG brand, but increasingly so, BYD and Cherry as well.

BYD's September sales searched and neared a continent level, the volume of MG and Tesla.

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