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  • Mercedes-Benz suffers complaints from Chinese consumers over EQC's motor problems

    Sixty-eight Mercedes-Benz EQC owners have issued a joint statement asking Daimler to respond to the model's faulty electric motor.

  • Xpeng brings first OTA update for P7 this year, allows users to share memory parking routes

    The OTA brings 12 new features and more than 40 optimizations to the user experience, Xpeng said.

  • Geely reportedly plans to buy Chinese smartphone maker Meizu

    Meizu was one of the first smartphone makers in China, predating the founding of Xiaomi.

  • Nio partners with IKEA, 800th swap station in China goes online

    The launch of the station is just the first step in its partnership with IKEA, and more battery swap stations will appear in IKEA malls in the future, Nio said.

  • Charging or swapping? Analysts list pros and cons

    CITIC Securities expects energy replenishment to remain primarily charging, supplemented by battery swap, over the next five years, but the latter's adoption will accelerate significantly.

  • China's top economic planner voices support for NEV industry in new initiative

    China's NDRC has released a new proposal that again mentions support for the NEV industry and the battery swap model.

  • Chinese lithium giant Tianqi Lithium said to be preparing for up to $2 billion HK listing

    Tianqi Lithium's listing could take place as soon as mid-2022 and could raise $1 billion to $2 billion, according to Bloomberg.

  • WM Motor said to have suffered another fire accident

    At the end of December last year, WM Motor's EX5 model had a fire accident every day for three days in a row.

  • Volvo exec reportedly to join Nio to lead its German market expansion

    Volvo's director of commercial operations in Germany will join Nio in March as the Chinese EV carmaker's general manager for the German market, German media reported.

  • Pony.ai unveils next-gen autonomous driving system design, to be used first in Toyota model

    The model will begin road testing in China this year and enter the daily operation of self-driving mobility services in the first half of 2023.