Lei Kang

Aito said it is ramping up delivery capacity, which is expected to top 30,000 vehicles in a single month beginning in 2024, as it secures more than 120,000 firm orders for the new M7.

Leapmotor will showcase its in-house developed technologies at an event on January 10, when pre-sales of its first global model, the C10, will begin.

Owners of vehicles with purchase invoice dates on or after January 1, 2024 will only be eligible to buy out the battery packs after one year.

Customers who buy the Frigate 07 between January 1 and January 31 will get a discount of RMB 18,000, which is up to RMB 7,000 for the Seal series.

For the full year 2023, Zeekr delivered 118,685 vehicles, a 64.98 percent increase year-on-year.

Customers who ordered a rear-wheel-drive version of the Model 3 that had already been produced between January 1 and January 31 will receive an insurance subsidy of RMB 6,000 yuan. The amount is lower than last month's RMB 8,000.

Shenzhen-based UBTech, a maker of humanoid robots and smart service robots, made its debut on the Hong Kong stock market today with a market capitalization of HK$38 billion.

Audi retail dealer Premium Automobiles has been appointed as Zeekr's distributor in Singapore in an agreement signed in late December, according to The Straits Times.

Chery New Energy has slashed the official guide prices of its cheaper Little Ant and QQ Ice Cream models by 7.7 percent to 16.7 percent.

The two models feature sodium-ion batteries from Farasis Energy and Hina Battery, marking a step closer to large-scale use of the new, lower-cost batteries.