Lei Kang

The Buick Electra E4 starts at RMB 189,900 in China, with deliveries set to begin in July.

Nio's first phone model will be released and begin deliveries in the third quarter, William Li said in April.

The Denza N7 will go on sale later this month, with deliveries to begin in July.

HiPhi's third model, the HiPhi Y, which will be launched in China on July 15, will also be introduced to the European market soon and will be available for pre-order there by the end of the year.

The service will begin a trial run on July 1, with available vehicles being the ET7 and EL7 and a minimum order length of seven days.

Nio Capital participated in a RMB hundreds of millions Series A round of funding for CIX Technology, after previously co-leading the company's Pre-A round.

"They developed very quickly, and they developed them in large scale. And now they're exporting them," Bill Ford said.

Chinese car penetration is expected to rise to 16.5 percent in Europe and 12.8 percent in Southeast Asia by 2025, according to Canalys.

The EC6 is the last remaining piece of the puzzle as Nio switches models from the NT 1.0 platform to the NT 2.0 platform.

The AITO M9 will be built on a new 800 V high-voltage platform, on which Huawei will place its new technologies in the cockpit and smart driving areas, according to Richard Yu.