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Hyundai Motor and Baidu have officially joined hands to collaborate on intelligent connected vehicles and autonomous driving.

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Hyundai and Kia signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with Baidu on Saturday in Beijing regarding intelligent connected vehicles. According to the agreement, Hyundai and Kia, along with Baidu, will jointly establish a new business ecosystem in the fields of intelligent connected vehicles, autonomous driving, intelligent transportation systems, cloud computing, and more. Additionally, both parties […]

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Zhou Hongyi’s Maybach 600 sold for 9.9 million yuan! The starting price was only 600 yuan.

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As a newly emerged “internet celebrity” in the automotive industry, Zhou Hongyi successfully sold his Maybach 600 for a whopping 9.9 million yuan! Interestingly, Zhou Hongyi set the starting price for this Maybach 600 at only 600 yuan, and the final selling price was 16,500 times the starting price. According to the prearranged agreement, the

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The administrative sedan’s interior! The new Hongqi car L1 is named Guo Ya: Pre-orders open globally.

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We learned from the Yuedu FAW public account that during the opening of the Beijing Auto Show today, the Hongqi Guo Ya ultra-luxury executive sedan has officially opened pre-orders to global customers. This new car will belong to the “Hongqi Golden Sunflower” series, and officials say it is the latest work that embodies the brand’s

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Lexus’s pure electric vehicle high residual value buyback commitment is difficult to fulfill: 90% repurchase price is just talk

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The retention rate is something many people consider when buying a car, and some luxury brands even offer related buyback policies. However, when it comes time to use them, some people encounter troubles. Reportedly, Mr. Zhu purchased an RZ series electric vehicle from a Lexus 4S dealership in Shanghai last July. The manufacturer introduced a

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Ideal Motors has announced a significant price reduction across its entire lineup, demonstrating a high level of respect for its competitors, according to Li Xiang.

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Even the “Range Extender King” has to join the price war. Early this morning, Ideal Auto announced two major events. First, they revealed that orders for the new Ideal L6 surpassed 10,000 within 72 hours. However, what caught the attention of netizens was the first announcement—the across-the-board price reduction by Ideal. Not only L7/8/9, but

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Chery plans to invest 400 million euros to build a factory in Spain.

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Following BYD, another Chinese automotive company making its mark in Europe is Chery Automobile. On April 19th, local time, Chery Automobile signed an agreement with Spanish automotive company Ebro-EV Motors to establish a joint venture in Barcelona, Spain for producing new electric vehicles. According to the agreement, Chery Automobile will commence production of models like

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Honda has launched a new all-electric brand called “Ignite” (烨), with plans to introduce six new models in the future.

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At the brand’s launch event, Honda officially introduced its new all-electric brand called “Ignite” (烨), announcing plans to launch six models by 2027. Ignite features a newly developed electric vehicle platform tailored to meet the needs of Chinese consumers and will be the first to use the new “H” logo. The “Ignite GT” concept car

Honda has launched a new all-electric brand called “Ignite” (烨), with plans to introduce six new models in the future. Read More »

JAC-NIO collaboration becomes history! JAC Motors: Will no longer manufacture vehicles for NIO.

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Recently, photos shared by a NIO car owner show that the new NIO vehicles no longer have the “JAC Motors” badge and now display the “NIO” emblem. This change signifies that NIO has obtained its own manufacturing qualifications and completed the production line transition, now delivering products under the NIO brand rather than utilizing JAC

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Translation: “Major Breakthrough in Solid-State Batteries by Chinese Academy of Sciences! Capable of 300 Cycles Without Degradation, Aiming for Mass Production by 2026.”

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According to an official announcement from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the institute has successfully overcome the final hurdle in the production process of sulfide all-solid-state batteries for large-scale vehicle batteries. They have also achieved a critical breakthrough in the technology of sulfide pouch cell stacking. As

Translation: “Major Breakthrough in Solid-State Batteries by Chinese Academy of Sciences! Capable of 300 Cycles Without Degradation, Aiming for Mass Production by 2026.” Read More »

Lei Jun’s post wishes for the great success of the Zhiji S7: “Let’s move forward together in China’s new energy vehicle industry.”

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Xiaomi’s founder, Chairman, and CEO Lei Jun today shared Huawei Terminal’s official announcement of the “HarmonyOS Ecosystem Spring Communication Conference” and wrote: “The next ten years will be a decade of intelligence. Let’s move forward together in China’s new energy vehicle industry. Best wishes for the great success of the Zhiji S7!” Earlier today, Huawei

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Ningde Times is live-streaming to sell batteries, aiming to target end consumers directly?

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The plummeting prices of raw materials, intensified competition, and overcapacity have made the battery industry no longer as easy as it used to be. As a leading company in the industry, CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited) is facing a situation where its influence is diminishing. To regain market dominance, CATL is shifting its focus

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Didi’s autonomous driving joint venture with GAC Aion has been approved to launch its first commercially available Level 4 (L4) autonomous vehicle by 2025.

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On April 7th, it was announced that DiDi’s autonomous driving joint venture with GAC Aion, named Guangzhou Andi Technologies Co., Ltd., has been granted a business license. This marks the establishment of the first joint venture in China between an L4 autonomous driving company and an automaker focused on developing a production-ready Robotaxi. The first

Didi’s autonomous driving joint venture with GAC Aion has been approved to launch its first commercially available Level 4 (L4) autonomous vehicle by 2025. Read More »

The three major Japanese automakers experienced a collective sales collapse in the Chinese market.

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The collapse of Japanese car sales in China happened faster and more severely than anticipated. Nissan’s sales plummeted by 30%, Honda’s were cut in half, and Toyota, as the leading car manufacturer, struggled to stabilize in the tumultuous Chinese market. Combined, the top three Japanese automakers in China couldn’t match the sales of just BYD

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BYD’s DM5.0 hybrid patent has recently surfaced, with claims of a range of up to 2000 kilometers on a full tank of gas and full battery charge.

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Recently, the media exposed a patent for BYD’s hybrid power system, suspected to be the latest DM 5.0 hybrid system from BYD. The patent diagrams show that this latest hybrid power system adopts the same dual-motor series-parallel configuration as the existing DM-i system, but with a more complex structure. With a full tank of gas

BYD’s DM5.0 hybrid patent has recently surfaced, with claims of a range of up to 2000 kilometers on a full tank of gas and full battery charge. Read More »

China’s March new energy vehicle sales ranking: BYD leads with sales exceeding 300,000 units.

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Today, the sales ranking of new energy vehicles for March 2024 was released. The data shows that the wholesale sales volume of new energy passenger vehicles nationwide reached 820,000 units, an increase of 33% year-on-year and 84% month-on-month. The China Passenger Car Association pointed out that the market advantage of leading new energy companies has

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