As you’ve heard before, China wants more electric vehicles, and this week General Motors announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC) to manage a fleet of Chevy Volts for data collection. The MOU covers a one-year period...

If General Motors wants success when it begins delivering Volts to China this year, it may have to bow to a pending Chinese law insisting GM agree to give up a related core trade secret to its Chinese joint venture (JV) partner, just as Ford already has. The pressure to give in is substantial...