BANGKOK -- When China's Great Wall Motor rolled out the Haval H6 hybrid sport utility vehicle in Thailand last month, the slogan for the launch -- "It's time to change" -- seemed to throw down the gauntlet to the Japanese companies that enjoy a near-monopoly in Southeast Asia.
Great Wall is among the Chinese and South Korean automakers capitalizing on efforts by Thailand and Indonesia to push electric vehicles, threatening to leave behind Japanese rivals reluctant to abandon internal combustion engines.
