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The project, with a total investment of about RMB 10 billion ($1.57 billion), will have an initial annual capacity of 120,000 vehicles.

Honda unveiled its EV brand e:N, its new architecture e:N Architecture, and its vehicle system e:N OS, and plans to launch a total of 10 pure electric models in China in the next five years.

Toyota originally aimed to build fewer than 900,000 vehicles in September, a figure that has been reduced to 500,000.

The project will be able to produce 120,000 new energy vehicles per year after completion.

The first phase of GAC Toyota's new energy vehicle capacity expansion project went into operation Sunday, with an expected annual capacity of 200,000 units, the company said.

They involve 116,551 Corolla vehicles produced by Tianjin FAW Toyota from August 2019 to July 2021 and 109,034 Levin vehicles produced by GAC Toyota from May 2019 to July 2021.

Nissan's production base in the capital city of Zhengzhou is in a state of temporary suspension due to heavy rains, yicai.com said Wednesday, citing a source from Nissan China.

Japanese automaker Mazda is said to put into production an all-electric model for the Chinese market in June this year and launch it in the third quarter, according to a Chinese auto industry website.

Toyota has decided to supply the core system of its hybrid vehicle to major Chinese automaker Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC), the first time in Toyota's history that it will offer hybrid vehicle technology to a foreign company, according to Nikkei Asia on Thursday.

Toyota recently announced that in order to popularize hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCEVs) in China, it has joined forces with five Chinese companies to establish a commercial vehicle a fuel cell system development company.