Lei Kang

China's new energy passenger vehicle penetration at retail in February was 32.1 percent, up 6.4 percentage points from 25.7 percent in January.

Overseas lithium prices are already at a 20 percent premium to Chinese prices, which is expected to provide support for lithium prices as the export window opens, analysts said.

The Toyota bZ3 is priced lower than the BYD Han EV in China, but higher than the BYD Destroyer 05.

Spy photos of what is suspected to be Xiaomi's first model have been circulating on Weibo recently, showing the exterior and some of the interior design of the model.

CATL's battery installations rose 6.5 percent year-on-year in January, below the industry's growth rate of 18.1 percent.

Standard Robots aims to use driverless, robotics and artificial intelligence technologies to create efficient and flexible logistics solutions to help manufacturing companies improve productivity.

The Denza N7 SUV is expected to be released in the first half of this year and is expected to target a market of around 400,000 yuan ($57,800).

Shenlan's first model is a rival to Tesla's Model 3 and has delivered a total of 37,328 units since deliveries began in late August.

For power battery makers, it's important to keep production lines running consistently, so a price war for batteries is long expected, industry watchers said.

Xpeng said this was because the third-party app triggered a risk control policy when the user tried to log in, thus requiring facial recognition.