00:00Britain has been embracing Chinese electric vehicles and plans are underway to upgrade
00:05major UK ports to make deliveries smoother.
00:08Geely launched here last month.
00:10Our correspondent Geoff Moody spoke to UK Managing Director Mike Yang.
00:16We know clearly ever since the beginning that we are not coming here to sell and service
00:21cars, but for a better solution for a new energy vehicle transition.
00:27And we also understand that access to charging is an important barrier to block the customers
00:38for buying a new energy vehicle.
00:40So we worked with a local leading home charge supplier named Anderson.
00:46We also invest significant resources to contribute to the customers' purchase and installation
00:54of the home charge.
00:56It's a very crowded market, isn't it?
00:58I mean, you're not just competing with very well established European and American brands,
01:03you're also competing with other Chinese brands that are just beginning to come into the market.
01:08What made you decide to do it and what makes you think that you can succeed?
01:11Truly, the market is always clouded and it seems getting even clouded currently.
01:18But if a brand has its own developing strategy and has competitive models and advanced technology
01:29for the market, it is always potential.
01:32A lot of people, younger people, are slowly coming round to the idea of looking at Chinese goods
01:40as quality goods.
01:42But you're not winning the battle when it comes to older people who still, when they think
01:48goods coming in from China, it's going to be cheap, they're going to be low quality.
01:55They're not quite au fait with the concept of China being a high quality product, are they?
02:02Yeah.
02:03It's true.
02:04On one hand, Geely, although Geely is newly introduced into UK, but the Geely family has been rooted
02:13in UK landscape for a long time, for more than 20 years.
02:17So, when we talk with our potential customers, dealer partners, and freighter, and also other
02:24business partners, it looks like we are older friends already because of the DNA of the group
02:30that runs across the UK in the past times.
02:33Why now?
02:34I mean, I presume part of it is the whole tariffs thing, the fact that the EU is charging China
02:40tariffs, America is.
02:42And yet, the relationship between Britain and China, on a trade basis, is very strong
02:48because it's frictionless, isn't it?
02:50It is a great potential and opportunity for us.
02:53UK keeps very reliable and sustainable relationship with China in terms of trading and tariffs.
03:02So, it is an advantage for us.
03:05Southampton, the port of Southampton, is going to invest millions of pounds to make the port
03:14welcoming to Chinese cars coming in.
03:16That's a good sign, isn't it?
03:18A good sign of the relationship between China and the UK.
03:21Yes, really.
03:22It is a good sign of the good relationship and expanding the capacity of the trading and
03:28enhance the efficiency of the logistics and also for the society.
03:33Yeah.
03:34All this investing, I think we have a common idea to benefit our customers.
03:39Are you getting enough support from the UK government, do you think?
03:42Sure.
03:43We get a lot of support from UK.
03:45Geely keeps very strong relationship with the UK government in terms of the business of
03:51Volvo, of Polestar, of Lotus and LEVC.
03:56When it comes to buying an EV in the first place, there are two schools of thought, aren't
04:02there?
04:03There's people that say, well, yes, it's great for the environment.
04:07But there are others that say, well, you can't do long journeys because you've got to constantly
04:13think about where you're going to charge.
04:15It takes time to charge.
04:16There are cables everywhere at home and on the street.
04:20It's not as good as it could be.
04:22It's not necessarily the way out of the climate crisis that people think.
04:26What's your take on that?
04:28First of all, the government is investing in the facility of the charging.
04:34And all the brands are trying its best to solve this problem for the customers.
04:42And you're presenting a new image of China, aren't you?
04:46That must make you proud.
04:48For me, I'm presenting the country and the brand.
04:53And also, I'm representing of Geely customers.
04:57To be the bridge of the UK customers' favors and as a Geely headquarter in China, I need
05:05to adhere to the UK customers' favors and adopt more Geely advanced technologies and models
05:12to match the customers' favor.
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