This story updated on January 28 to add some details on the battery subscription as it applied in the Philippines. As electric vehicle adoption continues to gain momentum in Southeast Asia, VinFast Philippines is once again highlighting battery subscription as a central strategy for lowering the cost barrier to EV … [continued]
VinFast has rolled out four new electric scooter models in Vietnam, and this is not a routine product refresh. It is a coordinated escalation across hardware, software, pricing, and energy infrastructure, designed to lock in domestic market dominance before foreign platforms — most notably Gogoro — can achieve meaningful scale. … [continued]
The electric vehicle maker from Vietnam has not exactly taken off in the United States, but VinFast is apparently doing quite well at home. The company said today that it delivered about 170,000 electric vehicles in Vietnam in 2025, which is almost double what it delivered in 2024. In total, … [continued]
Vingroup announced separate strategic agreements in late December to develop urban infrastructure and green public transport networks in Uzbekistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Vietnamese conglomerate signed a trilateral Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Kinshasa and Exposure SARL on Dec. 29 to modernize the African capital’s … [continued]
VinFast loves doing things fast. In keeping with this reputation, the Vietnamese EV maker inaugurated its assembly plant in Subang, West Java, on December 15, completing the facility in 17 months and establishing its first production base in Southeast Asia outside Vietnam. The factory represents VinFast’s fourth operational facility globally … [continued]
VinFast is expanding its presence in Indonesia with new vehicle launches and the upcoming start of operations at its Subang assembly plant. The Vietnamese automaker received two awards at the Road to CNBC Indonesia Awards 2025 and unveiled two models at the GAIKINDO Jakarta AutoShow 2025. At the auto show … [continued]
CleanTechnica is all for renewables and electrification. We exist to remind humans of the Earth and to rid it of smoke belchers, offensive energy generation, and climate deniers. Idealistic as we are, we are also grounded in the truth that this will never happen quickly enough, and will happen mostly … [continued]
Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturer VinFast has thrown down a significant gauntlet in the nascent Philippine EV market with the launch of its Residual Value Guarantee (RVG) Program. By promising to protect the resale value of its vehicles for up to three years, guaranteeing up to 90% of the original price, … [continued]
We’ve already written about the top selling electric vehicles in the USA in the 3rd quarter and auto companies’ shares of US EV sales. Now we are on to the third analysis in this series, examining the share of auto brands’ and auto groups’ overall auto sales that were electric. … [continued]
A First-Hand Account Of VinFast’s Automotive Evolution I’ve been fortunate enough to visit the VinFast manufacturing complex in Hai Phong twice — once in 2022, just after the pandemic and during its early EV transition, and again just last week, as part of a Philippine media delegation. My dad was … [continued]
