EV Industry

The first batch of WM W6 will be shipped as show cars to stores in cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Wuhan, Chongqing, Hangzhou, and Chengdu. Customers will be able to experience the model's smart technology in-store.

Baidu's autonomous driving platform Apollo has partnered with Chinese LiDAR company Hesai Photonics Technology to develop a LiDAR for use in Baidu's fifth-generation self-driving Robotaxi.

The proportion of potential consumers who tend to buy new energy vehicles rose from 3% in 2018 to 16% this year, the report showed.

US-based electric car company Faraday Future (FF) announced Friday that it has raised nearly $100 million in debt financing led by Ares with participation from existing lenders including Birch Lake.

Sales of all new energy vehicles are expected to reach 2.2 million units this year, up 900,000 units from last year.

Evergrande Auto, the car-making business of China's largest real estate company, has invested RMB 47.4 billion ($7.25 billion) to build new energy vehicles, the company said in its annual financial report released March 25.

Geely Auto started laying out its chip strategy in 2019, and the in-house developed central control chip will be assembled on board in 2023, the auto giant said.

Dai Lei, former CEO and co-founder of Chinese EV startup Byton, will take a position at Evergrande Auto.

Chinese chip company Horizon Robotics is on track to ship a million automotive AI chips this year, up from 160,000 in 2020, the company said Tuesday.

Geely plans to inject RMB 2 billion ($307 million) into the new company, with Geely Auto holding 51% and Geely Holding Group holding 49%.