01 October 2026 
- Chinese car exports to the European Union have surpassed European car exports to China. This trend is evident in 2025 values, as EU car exports to China fell by 34% to €16 billion, compared to €24.2 billion in 2024, while Chinese car exports to the EU rose by 8% to €22 billion, up from €20.4 billion. The EU therefore recorded a deficit of €6 billion in 2025, compared to a surplus of €3.8 billion in 2024 (source: ACEA).
- But in fact, in terms of volume, Chinese car imports to the European Union surpassed European car exports to China as early as 2024 , reaching 455,000 units that year (compared to 350,000 in 2023), while the EU exported only 300,000 to China. By 2025, China had exported 620,000 cars to the EU.
- This distortion between value and volume is due to the fact that cars exported from China to the EU represent less in value than cars exported from the EU to China at the same volume, given that Chinese cars exported to Europe are mid-range and mid-priced while cars exported from the EU to China (often German) are high-end and high-priced (Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati).
- It should be noted that of the 620,000 cars exported from China to the EU in 2025, 116,000 will be European or American brands (compared to 182,000 in 2024) and 504,000 will be Chinese brands (compared to 273,000 in 2024). The number of European or American cars exported from China to the EU is trending downward.
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- American car carmaker Tesla plans to increase its production volume this year at its factory in Grünheide , near Berlin (Germany), where the Tesla Model Y is produced.
- Currently, the factory is operating at approximately 5,000 vehicles per week, for an annual production rate of 250,000 cars. According to factory management, production volume is expected to increase to 6,200 vehicles per week in July, for a rate of 310,000 cars per year, and then to 7,500 vehicles per week in October, for a rate of 375,000 cars per year. The carmaker is counting on strong and growing demand for electric cars in Europe (including Turkey and the Middle East) and lower prices for its own models to boost production at the Grünheide plant . If this planned production increase for 2026 is achieved as expected, Tesla's German factory could produce 290,000 Model Ys in 2026, 100,000 more than last year.
- Grünheide factory could produce 375,000 Model Ys by 2027, a figure that currently represents the factory's maximum capacity. These goals seem ambitious, given that the competition, particularly Chinese carmakers, will continue to expand rapidly in the all-electric vehicle market.
- In the first 5 months of 2026, Tesla sold 118,000 electric cars in Europe (30 countries! EU + UK + Switzerland + Norway) while Chinese carmakers sold nearly 150,000.
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