Charging Ahead or Falling Behind? Chinese EV Investments in the V4 States – chinaobservers

Central Europe-East Asia EV nexus: Tracking Chinese, South Korean and Japanese electric vehicle and battery investment in the V4 countries

A confluence of factors is challenging the industrial structure and the long-standing business model of four Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries: Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia—collectively known as the Visegrad Four (V4). Since their transformation from command economies to free markets in the early 1990s, the automotive industry has been the backbone of their manufacturing sectors and, by extension, their economies.  Two major…

Charging Ahead or Falling Behind? Chinese EV Investments in the V4 States – chinaobservers

This article was originally published with China Dialogues at LSE Ideas and is republished here with the permission of the author. The article is part of an ongoing collaboration between LSE Ideas and CHOICE.… Source