Gasgoo Daily: Chery QQ Ice Cream to hit market soon

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Chery QQ Ice Cream to hit market soon

The QQ Ice Cream from Chery, a rival to the Wuling Hongguang MINIEV, will hit the market on December 28 with a price range from RMB29,900 to RMB43,900.

NDRC seeks to accelerate building charging piles, battery swapping stations

According to a notice from China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the application of new energy vehicles and the building of supporting infrastructure should be accelerated.

Insurance registrations of HiPhi X total 763 units in November

HiPhi said the monthly insurance regsitrations of the HiPhi X stood at 763 units last month and the cumulative deliveries of the model has surpassed 3,300 units.

Photo credit: HiPhi

BAIC ARCFOX, Baidu jointly-developed Robotaxi starts mass-production

BAIC Bluepark, the holding company of the premium EV brand, ARCFOX, stated that the company’s co-developed Robotaxi with Baidu’s Apollo has completed technical development and started mass-production.

XPeng apologizes for illegal collection of human face photos at Shanghai sales shops

XPeng Inc. officially apologized on Tuesday for its Shanghai sales shops' illegal collection of human face photos which raise the public's concerns about personal data security. The apology came after a local media channel reported that Shanghai XPeng Motor Sales Service Co.,Ltd. was fined 100,000 yuan ($15,720) by the Xuhui District Administration for Market Regulation for buying cameras and installing them in sales outlets to gather human facial recognition data.

Xiaomi’s Lei Jun resigns from multiple companies to focus on automaking

In the past few months, founder and CEO of Xiaomi, Lei Jun, resigned as the executive director from several Xiaomi-related companies to dedicate his attention to his automaking endeavor, according to the PR manager of Xiaomi, Wang Hua.

Sunwoda to build 30GWh power, energy storage battery production base in Zaozhuang

Chinese EV power battery manufacturer Sunwoda Electric Vehicle Battery Co., Ltd. will set up a subsidiary responsible for the building of a power battery and energy storage battery manufacturing base with an annual capacity of 30GWh in Zaozhuang city, Shandong province, the company’s parent Sunwoda Electronic Co Ltd. announced on Dec. 14.

VW increases stake in joint venture with JAC Group

China’s major automaker JAC Motors announced that it had completed a private offering with RMB2 billion raised.

NIO said to launch second sedan model ET5 on NIO Day 2021

NIO announced on Tuesday it will officially launch an all-new model at the forthcoming NIO Day, which is in all likelihood the startup's second sedan model named ET5.

China NEV sales to reach 3.4 million units in 2021: CAAM

China’s annual automobile sales volume may surpass 26 million vehicles in 2021, with 13% being new energy vehicles, according to Fu Bingfeng, the executive vice president and secretary-general of China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), at a summit today.

China’s Sichuan province clarifies project scope for NEV, ICV subsidies

Sichuan provincial government plans to grant incentives to automakers who produce and sell NEVs (new energy vehicles), and developers of NEV and ICV (intelligent-connected vehicle) technologies, according to a document recently issued by Sichuan Provincial Economic and Information Department.