{"id":343576,"date":"2026-01-14T13:13:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/mercedes-bmw-project-tepid-2026-demand-in-china-as-domestic-brands-like-nio-and-aito-gain-traction\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:13:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:13:39","slug":"mercedes-bmw-project-tepid-2026-demand-in-china-as-domestic-brands-like-nio-and-aito-gain-traction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/mercedes-bmw-project-tepid-2026-demand-in-china-as-domestic-brands-like-nio-and-aito-gain-traction\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes, BMW project tepid 2026 demand in China as domestic brands like Nio and Aito gain traction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/mercedes-bmw-project-tepid-2026-demand-in-china-as-domestic-brands-like-nio-and-aito-gain-traction.jpg\" alt=\"CnEVPost\"><\/p>\n<p>Both Mercedes-Benz and BMW have provided 2026 demand forecasts to their Chinese supply chains, with projections falling back to sales levels seen a decade ago.<br \/>\nIn contrast, China&#8217;s premium brands have set more aggressive sales targets, with Nio aiming for 40-50% sales growth in 2026.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=https:\/\/cnevpost.com\/2026\/01\/14\/mercedes-bmw-project-tepid-2026-demand-china-domestic-brands-gain-traction\/ target='blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/mercedes-bmw-project-tepid-2026-demand-in-china-as-domestic-brands-like-nio-and-aito-gain-traction.jpg\" alt=\"CnEVPost\"><\/p>\n<p>Both Mercedes-Benz and BMW have provided 2026 demand forecasts to their Chinese supply chains, with projections falling back to sales levels seen a decade ago.<br \/>\nIn contrast, China&#8217;s premium brands have set more aggressive sales targets, with Nio aiming for 40-50% sales growth in 2026.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/mercedes-bmw-project-tepid-2026-demand-in-china-as-domestic-brands-like-nio-and-aito-gain-traction\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":343577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnevpost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}