China Tech

  • BYD's first production line for blade battery expected to start trial production by year-end

    As its blade battery production base, the main production plant of BYD's Ningxiang power battery production base project has been topped off, local media reported, adding the project is expected to start the installation of equipment before October 15, and the first production line's trial production will begin before December 15.

  • Chinese version of Rolls-Royce Hongqi H9 launched, priced from about $44,782

    The much-anticipated Hongqi H9 sedan went on sale today, including five models priced between RMB 309,800 ($44,782) and 539,800 yuan.

  • Huawei Intelligent Vehicle BU CTO explains its digital system architecture

    At the 2020 China Automotive Forum held on August 13 - 15, Huawei Intelligent Vehicle BU CTO Cai Jianyong gave a detailed answer on Huawei VehicleStack digital system architecture in his presentation.

  • Chinese auto maker GAC says its technology allows EVs to exceed 1,000 km range

    Chinese automobile maker GAC Group said today it has achieved an energy density of 275 watt-hours per kilogram of square hard-shell cells using a new silicon anode material technology, enabling electric vehicles equipped with such batteries to have a range of more than 1,000 kilometers.

  • DJI launches automotive LIDAR with detection range of up to 1000 meters

    After exhibiting at CES in January this year, Chinese drone maker DJI Livox's LIDAR is officially on sale.

  • China's 600 km/h high-speed maglev test vehicle completes test run

    China's 600 km/h high-speed magnetic levitation test vehicle successfully made a test run in Shanghai today, marking an important new breakthrough of China's high-speed magnetic levitation research and development.

  • Huawei 5G in-vehicle module is now commercially available, reports say

    Huawei's 5G in-vehicle module is now commercially available, Tencent News said yesterday, citing sources close to Huawei Vehicle BU.

  • Chinese auto maker Chery is developing auto operating system 'Lion'

    Chery Automobile chairman Yin Tongyue recently said the company is working on a car operating system called the "Lion". He believes it is important to master not only the advanced technology of the industry, but also the operating system and put it in the hands of Chinese people.

  • Chinese firm launches cobalt-free battery with maximum range of 880 km

    Chinese company SVOLT Energy's cobalt-free batteries are manufactured using single-crystal cobalt-free material technology, stacked cell design technology, matrix PACK design technology, and automotive specification-level AI manufacturing to achieve a vehicle range of over 800 km and a life of over 15 years and 1.2 million km.

  • Huawei's Autopilot operating system gets ASIL D certification for first time

    Huawei recently announced on Weibo that the Huawei Autopilot operating system kernel (including virtualization mechanism) has been awarded the highest level of functional safety certification in the safety field (ISO 26262 ASIL D), making it the first operating system kernel in China to receive ASIL D certification.