Phate Zhang

Li Auto's 1 millionth vehicle rolled off the assembly line at its plant in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, 58 months after the first one rolled off the line.

Orders for the P7+ surpassed 30,000 units just 1 hour and 48 minutes after pre-sales began, Xpeng said.

Pre-sales for the Xpeng P7+ start at RMB 209,800 ($29,610), which is 9.53 percent lower than the Tesla Model 3's starting price of RMB 231,900 in China.

The ES6, with 7,901 units delivered in September, was the highest-delivering Nio model last month, contributing 37.3 percent of Nio Inc's deliveries.

A fire at the plant of one of Zeekr's second-tier suppliers briefly affected the supply of Zeekr 7X parts, and the supplier has resumed full production.

The Bao 8 has a price range of RMB 400,000 ($56,600) to RMB 500,000 in pre-sales, with launch and first delivery to be completed by November at the latest.

The Zeekr 001 starts at about $76,390 in Brazil, with deliveries set to begin in November.

Tesla sold 72,200 vehicles in China in September, bringing third-quarter sales here to 181,883 and contributing 39.29 percent of its global deliveries.

Tesla's Shanghai factory took 32 months to produce its first one million vehicles, and just 13 months to get from its two millionth to the three millionth vehicle.

Nio today delivered its 600,000th production vehicle in Shanghai, about four months after delivering its 500,000th vehicle.