SAI NEWSLETTER

First off, to my American readers and a two days early - Happy Thanksgiving! This is where we all get to watch my Lions lose ...again....

Quite a busy week as the LA & Guangzhou (GZ) Auto shows bookend the weekend. There’s already been a couple of decent-sized announcements...

We had a surprisingly early first snow this weekend with the cold turned up a few notches. Beijing isn’t known for its snow, so what...

China September sales have been posted for most OEMs (exception being Tesla) and the one number that stood out came from NIO...

This week's picture is courtesy of Axios. A lot of big news this week that I’ve linked to below but the biggest when I woke up today was...

Got through that crazy busy week and am back in BJ but will be participating in a few more conferences & discussions before the end of...

We are back at it this week after some R&R (not really for me) for Golden Week. It’s going to be a sprint to the finish line for all...

Will be short and sweet this week since it’s Golden Week and we are technically off. Last week I had the pleasure of being a guest on...

Some admin stuff up top today since I’d forgotten to mention them in the last couple of newsletters. It’s a chance for me to tell you...

Happy Mid-Autumn festival (中秋节)or in Vietnamese as "Têt Trung Thu" to those that celebrate this very important Chinese/Asian holiday!...

The latest buzz this week is about the MIIT Minister speculating that the EV sector in China needs to go through some consolidation so...

The IAA Mobility 2021 is going on this week in Munich so it’s a chance for the German and European mobility companies to show off their...

The big event going on this week is the Chengdu Motor show and there are a few interesting launches that I am tracking including the VW...

Not much up top today. The kids are in the last week of summer before they head back to school so spending some QT with them. Summer...

We will go short and sweet with this week’s newsletter. My family just got back from Watertown - a resort area just north of downtown...

**Image courtesy of the Financial Times This coming Sunday, I was invited to moderate the Autonomous Vehicle panel for the Technode...

July sales numbers came out and there was a lot of ‘chalk’ with one notable exception. ‘Chalk’ means that the favorites won or in this...

China, Inc is getting crushed, at least on the HK exchange. Didi is off by more than 50% while the education cos. are off by even more...

It’s been a pretty rainy few days in Beijing and there’s been some severe flooding in cities like Zhengzhou that turned into tragedies as...

As proof that the Didi fiasco isn’t just a hiccup, it’s still being covered by most media outlets almost three weeks out with updates on...