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Chinese automaker Chery has denied an industry-ministry audit that disqualified more than $53 million in state incentives for thousands of its electric and hybrid vehicles, insisting it followed official guidance and committed no fraud.
Chery said on Saturday it had “truthfully reported” difficulties obtaining end-sale certificates for cars sold more than five years ago and had applied for the incentives only after regulators advised it to submit the paperwork for verification.
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) last month ruled that 21,725 vehicles declared by several manufacturers did not qualify for new-energy subsidies between 2016 and 2020 because of missing documents or unmet mileage targets. The decision covered 7,663 Chery vehicles and 14,062 produced by rivals including BYD, disqualifying funding worth about $53 million in total—almost 60 % of all contested claims.
MIIT did not allege fraud, nor did it outline penalties, although Beijing has previously required companies to repay subsidies when mileage rules are breached. Chery said the audit involved applications that had not yet been paid, so no reimbursement would be necessary.
BYD, China’s largest electric-vehicle maker, did not respond to Reuters questions.
Beijing’s subsidy scheme, which ran until 2022, helped make China the world’s biggest electric-car market; the country accounted for more than 60 % of global EV sales last year, according to the International Energy Agency. Regulators have since stepped up compliance checks amid concerns about abuse of public funds.
Industry analysts said the latest findings could tighten scrutiny of manufacturers’ reporting but were unlikely to dent consumer demand in a market where battery-powered cars now make up more than one in three new registrations.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
Southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region is harnessing its vast wind and solar potential on the “roof of the world” to drive sustainable green development.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday (October 5) criticised the international community for its muted response to a wave of Russian missile and drone strikes that killed at least five people and targeted civilian infrastructure across multiple regions.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday that the conflict in Gaza “has not yet” ended, calling the release of hostages held by Hamas only the first phase of President Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan.
George Russell delivered a commanding performance from pole position to win the Singapore Grand Prix for Mercedes on Sunday, finishing comfortably ahead of Red Bull’s world champion Max Verstappen.
British singer Robbie Williams announced that his upcoming concert in Istanbul had been cancelled “in the interests of public safety,” following pressure from Turkish NGOs and social media users who had called for the event to be scrapped.
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