- Huawei to plow up to $1 billion in auto tech R&D in 2021
Huawei plans to pour up to $1 billion in the R&D of automotive business this year, Wang Jun, president of Huawei smart car solution business unit, said on April 18.
- Honda China partners with AutoX to have autonomous car road tests
Honda’s China business unit announced on April 16 it has collaborated with AutoX, a self-driving tech developer backed by Alibaba, to explore autonomous driving solutions.
- GAC Aion to pour 500 million yuan in car plant expansion
GAC Aion announced on April 15 it plans to double the annual capacity of its intelligent ecosystem manufacturing plant to 200,000 new vehicles in early 2022 with nearly 500 million yuan ($76.624 million) to be invested.
- Chinese indigenous auto brands to show off key new models at Auto Shanghai 2021
The biennial Auto Shanghai is about to be open next Monday. Chinese indigenous brands will bring a host of new vehicles to the grand auto exhibition to greatly impress the public. Gasgoo hereby selected some prominent models to give you a preview.
- Great Wall Motor resumes sedan business under WEY brand
Great Wall Motor (GWM) has resumed its sedan business and plan to launch the first sedan model in May under WEY brand, according to Li Ruifeng, vice president of GWM and general manager of WEY brand, ...
Apr. 13 , 2021
- Huawei teams up with BAIC BJEV, Changan, GAC to co-launch self-driving car brands
Huawei will invest over $1 billion this year in the research and development of smart cars’ components, Xu Zhijun, the rotating chairman of the telecom titan, told analysts in Shenzhen on Monday.
Apr. 13 , 2021
- China’s car parc amounts to 287 million units by end of March 2021
China’s motor vehicle parc amounted to roughly 378 million units by the end of March 2021, of which 287 million units were automobiles, according to China’s Ministry of Public Security.
Apr. 12 , 2021
- Tesla only trails Germany's Big Three in China by Q1 premium brands' insurance registrations
In the first quarter of 2021 (Q1), there were 69,631 consumers in China buying the Mandatory Liability Insurance for Traffic Accidents of Motor Vehicles (MLI) for Tesla's vehicles, according the to Ch...
Apr. 13 , 2021
- BYTON’s former CEO Dr. Daniel Kirchert joins Evergrande Auto as executive vice president
Dr. Daniel Kirchert, co-founder and former CEO of EV startup BYTON, has joined Evergrande Auto, the new energy vehicle (NEV) unit of Chinese property giant Evergrande Group, as executive vice presiden...
Apr. 12 , 2021
- XPeng inks agreement for new EV manufacturing base in Wuhan
XPeng Inc. (XPeng) entered into a cooperation agreement with the City of Wuhan on April 8 to build a new XPeng Motors Wuhan Smart EV Manufacturing Base.
Apr. 08 , 2021
- SAIC’s Z-ONE launches SOA digital platform for software developers
Z-ONE, SAIC Motor’s software unit founded in July 2020, launched the SOA digital platform on April 9, which allows software developers to code and release car-based applications in an app store.
Apr. 12 , 2021
- SAIC Motor, Tencent jointly set up cybersecurity lab
On April 8, SAIC and Tencent officially launched a cybersecurity lab through which they will carry out collaboration on such fields as ICV-related cybersecurity standards, attack & defense technologie...
Apr. 08 , 2021
- Pony to expand Robotaxi operations, announces brand name of autonomous truck business
Pony.ai, a Chinese startup that builds full-stack autonomous driving solutions, announced on March 31 it will expand the scale of its Robotaxi service and published the brand name of its autonomous tr...
Apr. 01 , 2021