BYD is already known for its smaller, low-cost electric cars like the Seagull, which you can snag for under $10,000 in China. Now, China’s EV leader is looking to go even smaller. BYD plans to launch ...

In Japan, Nissan Motor Co. and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. offer mini EVs, with their combined sales making up about 40 percent of the electric car market. BYD also said it will introduce electric ...

Whereas the latest petrol Mini Cooper is a heavy update of the outgoing model, the electric version is all-new, built in ...

TOKYO -- Chinese electric vehicle giant ... or kei-jidosha (light vehicles) in Japanese, are unique to the country and account for about 40% of the overall Japanese car market.

The ranking is based on data released by the Japan Automobile Dealers Association and the Japan Mini ... Electric vehicles accounted for 5.9 percent of the foreign makers’ overall car sales ...

TOKYO -- Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD is leveraging its cheap, in-house manufactured batteries to break into Japan's market for kei minicars, a field where overseas players have seen little ...