An assessment of what expects JLR and its suppliers?

How did Plug-in hybrid (PHEV) sales go in China? Is it too early to celebrate the increase in EU records? In addition, updates after a cyber attack on JLR. In addition to China’s false PHEV records, it is a view of Europe’s developing electric vehicle (home) sector. In addition, an assessment of what a positive August means for the EU new automobile market and what is expected of JLR and its suppliers affected by cyber attacks.

China’s Phev Market reached the lowest level of five years

China’s PHEV market has experienced the worst annual performance since June 2020. Home Volumes The latest data provided by the power transfer body showed that sales increased only 3.2 %compared to July 2024. This is the worst result since the 51.4 %decrease in the most intense period of COVID-19 epidemic.

BYD Seal 06 took part in the top of the monthly PHEV list for the first time this year. In the second place, Aito M8 took place. The model first recorded sales in China in April.

Meanwhile, the country’s battery -powered electric vehicle (BEV) sector increased by 34.5 %compared to July 2024. Geely Geome Xingyuan continued to be the prominent BEV performance. The second place Tesla Model once again settled at the top of the list with a significant difference against Y.

Rise in Europe’s electric vehicle market

According to Europe’s home volumes, Phev Market has noted that the biggest monthly growth since June 2021. Tops increased by 53.5 %annually in July. The performance continued the series of double -digit PHEV improvements that started in March after a two -month decline.

The BEVs have continued their stable development with double -digit increases every month this year. Compared to 12 months ago, fully electric deliveries increased by 33 %in July.

In the PHEV industry, Volkswagen (VW) took the lead with Tiguan at the top of the second month list in July. In the second place, BYD SEAL, which has been in the top three since March, took place.

Skoda Elroq led Europe’s Bev market for the second time this year. While the Czech brand took the first two places, ENYAQ took second place.

More growth for the EU new automobile market

ACEA’s According to the latest data, new automobile registrations in the EU rose by 5.3 %in August and rose to 677,785 and grew in the second month in a row. However, volumes have been continuing by 0.1 %since the New Year and 7,168,847 cars have been registered in 2025.

Spain continued to shine from the major markets with a gain of 17.2 %, while Germany and France recorded single -digit improvements. Sales in Italy fell by 2.7 %despite the positive returns in August, while France has been more than 7 %behind since the New Year’s Eve. Since electric vehicles seized more than 62.2 %of the market, the electrification directed most of the acceleration in August. Gasoline and motorine records continued to decrease.

Despite the positive signs, the industrial group Acea warns that electric vehicles are still ‘below the required speed’ to achieve EU climate targets and that this makes any celebration early.

Following a cyber attack at the beginning of September, JLR said it would continue to take a break from production at least until October 1st.

The attack forced the car manufacturer to close the internal computer systems and caused production to stop in all global factories. This also affected suppliers and retailers by creating problems in part order.

To BBC According to the stop JLR costs about 50 million £ (€ 57.2 million) each week, and the UK government is considering financial support for affected suppliers.

Yangwang’s new speed record

BYD’s luxury sub -brand YangwangWith 496.2 km/h (308.4 MPH), a new global production car broke the maximum speed record. This success was achieved by Yangwang’s newest U9 Xtreme, an electric hyper car.

“This record was only possible thanks to the incredible performance of U9 Xtreme, Marc said the driver Marc Basseng. ‘Technically, such a thing is not possible in the internal combustion engine.’