EV Industry

FAW Hongqi's plant has been the first to start resuming production, and the first 47 suppliers have resumed production, with other OEMs to resume production in orderly batches, a Jilin official said.

BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi's NEVs are not selling well in China, even salespeople don't recommend them to customers, and some stores sell only one a month.

Guangdong aims to have a convenient, efficient and moderately advanced charging network system in place by the end of 2025.

Nio Shanghai provided online service guidance and skills training for service specialists from April 1 to April 3, and conducted 39 live online events since March.

Some of WM Motor's models saw price increases on March 1, amid price hikes by many Chinese automakers.

In the luxury pure electric vehicle market priced above RMB 500,000, HiPhi achieved a 28 percent market share in the first quarter, it claimed.

At press time, Nio is up 10 percent, Xpeng is up 6.69 percent and Li Auto is up 6 percent.

In April, production and sales in China's auto industry continued to face uncertainty, the CPCA said.

China's auto industry is facing higher costs and a lack of consumer momentum, but production and sales of NEVs have continued their rapid growth, the CAAM said.

Deutsche Bank analyst Edison Yu's team expects sales of EVs to fall across the board in April and may also be affected in May, leading to a broad downward revision of second-quarter volumes.