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Xpeng will reportedly use batteries from BYD in its Mona sub-brand. Aonther report earlier this month said Nio's Onvo sub-brand would use BYD batteries.

China urged the US to immediately correct its wrongdoings, saying the country will take resolute measures to defend its rights and interests.

Leapmotor International will initially cover markets including Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain, and Portugal, and plans to expand its European sales network to 200 by the end of the year.

For May 1-12, Nio was 5,600, Xpeng 2,800, Li Auto 10,800, Xiaomi 2,000, Tesla 16,900, and BYD 101,300 units.

Xiaomi EV is asking its upstream suppliers to boost the supply of components, increasing orders by about 80 percent, according to local media.

The designer of the Onvo L60 is Onvo's head of global design, Raul Pires, who has more than 20 years of design experience with Volkswagen, designing several Bentley models.

Xiaomi benchmarked its envisioned SUV to Tesla's Model Y during development, according to Bloomberg.

Mercedes-Benz will use batteries from BYD's battery arm FinDreams in a hybrid version of its GLC SUV, according to a regulatory filing.

Nio CEO William Li rejected a vehicle design that had existed for six months for lower energy consumption.

A 10-MWh sodium-ion battery energy storage station has been put into operation in Guangxi, southwest China, the country's first large-scale energy storage plant using sodium batteries.