At the Shanghai auto show this week, the largest crowds can be found around an unassuming, bright yellow hatchback parked at the booth of China's largest electric carmaker BYD. A look at the latest models and concept cars are unveiled in Shanghai auto show.
Global and Chinese automakers plan to unveil more than a dozen new electric SUVs, sedans and muscle cars at the Shanghai auto show from April 18 to April 27, their first full-scale sales event in four years in a market that has become a workshop for developing electrics, self-driving cars and other technology.
Automakers are competing to roll out faster, more luxurious, more feature-drenched electric vehicles in the technology's biggest, most crowded market.
Electric and new-energy vehicles took the spotlight at China's Shanghai Auto Show on Tuesday with Honda Motor Co and one of its Chinese partners joining the ranks of other car makers announcing new models of energy efficient cars.
China's annual vehicle sales are expected to rise to 23 million units by 2015, up 27% from their level in 2010, a senior government official said on Monday, suggesting a slowdown in growth.