The Chery QEV. Photo for CleanTechnica by Raymond Tribdino.
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The Chinese EV market has gotten gigantic. In June, 685,000 pure-electric vehicles were sold in the country, accounting for approximately 43% of China’s auto market. However, 2026 is a down year for the market. As such, Chinese EV companies have been working extra hard to get their cars into other markets. Other Asian countries, European countries, and South American countries have been some of the top markets for export.
However, apparently, there’s so much demand for Chinese EVs in some of these places that some Chinese automakers have started building or buying factories to produced EVs in those other markets as well as in China.
The latest news we have on this is that Chery has bought a factory from Nissan in South Africa to build EVs there. It bought the Japanese company’s Rosslyn factory near Pretoria, South Africa. The factory will produce fully electric, plug-in hybrid, and Jetour models.
