EV Industry

The deployment in electric vehicle (EV) industry by Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the largest assembler of Apple Inc.’s iPhones, is quite smooth, and new applications for related products will be available as soon as 2021, the company’s chairman Young Liu said on Tuesday according to Economic Daily.

As one of the top open autonomous driving platforms in China, Baidu Apollo has a large number of ecological partners. Baidu Apollo said yesterday that a number of new partners have joined the Apollo open platform for autonomous driving.

Major auto manufacturers around the world are actively promoting electrification and new energy. However, there are also manufacturers in the market who are not so aggressive about electrifying cars.

Renault has recently released the Morphoz, an electric concept car that can be extended as needed to increase battery range.

At the 2019 Frankfurt Auto Show, Byton, a Chinese electric-vehicle startup, unveiled its first mass-produced model, the Byton M-Byte, and it finally has a timetable for hitting the market.

The higher the value of the vehicle, the lower the probability that the owner will show courtesy to pedestrians, a recent study by the University of Nevada-Las Vegas showed.

On February 26, autonomous driving company Pony.ai announced that it had raised $400 million in financing from Toyota Motor Corporation to deepen and expand cooperation between the two companies in the field of mobility.

Due to battery shortages, Audi temporarily suspended production of its electric SUV E-Tron.

Recently, Audi announced the power information of the Audi e-tron S and Audi e-tron S Sportback pictures. The latter's maximum power can be increased to 496 horsepower in a short time.

Chevrolet recently released a brand-new pure electric vehicle - Menlo EV in the Chinese market, which is its first pure electric vehicle in the Chinese market.