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Auto Shanghai 2025 | reinvent the wheel #7

Auto Shanghai 2025 | reinvent the wheel #7

A dispatch from the heart of a revolution, where horsepower meets hype, and the future of the automobile is being furiously rewritten.

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May 06, 2025
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It was, as Charles Dickens might have observed had he been an automotive journalist teleported to eastern China in the spring of 2025, the best of times and the worst of times for the global auto industry. The occasion was Auto Shanghai, the 21st iteration of a biennial spectacle that, on its 40th anniversary, had definitively shed any lingering percept…

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