Updates you may notice include that we will be using "Nio" instead of "Nio" as before, and will be using "Xpeng" instead of "Xpeng".
When I graduated from college and joined China Daily in July 2009, my first major task was to familiarize myself with a dozen-page stylebook.
For an English-language media outlet, a stylebook ensures that all reporters and editors remain coherent in the details of their wording.
When I launched CnEVPost in December 2020, we largely followed the style of China Daily and Reuters in terms of wording details.
In the past couple of years, with a large number of new companies and models in the Chinese EV industry, we started to refer more to company statements or press releases in some of our wording styles.
However, in retrospect, the mainstream international media did not do so, which requires us to update our stylebook in time.
Starting immediately, CnEVPost is moving to the latest 2023 version stylebook, which is our internal operating guideline and will ensure that the wording style will remain consistent, whether it's mine or any other author's articles.
Here are a few updates that you may notice:
We will be using "Nio" instead of the previously used "Nio".
We will be using "Xpeng" instead of "Xpeng".
More updates may be made in areas you won't notice, but are important to us, especially regarding the wording style for some EV models.
We will not adjust the wording style of past articles; the latest stylebook will guide our writing going forward, including CnEVPost and CnEVData.
Thanks to all our readers for your support in the past! If you have any feedback, please feel free to leave a message.
Phate Zhang
June 25, 2023
