Phate Zhang

The App Store for Nio's vehicle cockpits will go live in the next few days, with more than 40 apps that have already been adapted to be available this month.

SkyOS is Nio's full-featured operating system, gradually realizing more functionality from the NT 1.0 platform to NT 2.0. The NT 3.0 platform will see the full-featured SkyOS.

The Yangjian chip will allow Nio to save about $100 per vehicle and recover its development costs in about a year, William Li said.

The Nio Phone is a phone built around Nio's vehicles, offering an interaction with the vehicle that no other device can offer. The phone will begin shipping on September 28.

Nio's first smartphone will feature a 6.8-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X display from Samsung Display, for which the company has orders for just 50,000 pieces, according to local media.

Leapmotor's deliveries fell to just 1,139 units in January, but with the March 1 launch of the C11 SUV's EREV variant, its monthly deliveries have moved back above 14,000 units over the past two months.

The new brand, which will be significantly differentiated from Honda's e:NS brand, will be based on an all-new all-electric platform and target a younger demographic.

The $500 million 2029 notes bear interest at a rate of 3.875 percent per year and the other $500 million 2030 notes at 4.625 percent.

The new G9 features the core capabilities of Xpeng's latest SEPA architecture and has a starting price that is RMB 46,000 lower than the old model.

Zeekr is seeking an $18 billion valuation in a planned US IPO, though investors believe that's higher than they expected, according to local media.