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Volvo Cars China sales in 2021 up 3% YoY

Volvo Cars sold 171,676 vehicles in 2021 in China, up by 3% compared with the previous year.

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Yutong Bus Dec. sales down 1.27% YoY

China’s Yutong Bus sold 6,622 vehicles in December, 2021, down 1.27% from a year ago. For the whole year of 2021, the bus company sold 41,800 vehicles in total.

Wang Gang leaves Alibaba

Wang Gang, vice president of Alibaba Group, head of Alibaba Damo Academy’s autonomous driving lab, had left the group. In 2017, Wang Gang joined the group. 

Chongqing Sokon NEV sales more than double in 2021

Chongqing Sokon Industrial Group Co., Ltd said its new energy vehicle sales in December 2021 jumped 88.71% from a year ago to 6,150 units while the annual volume of new energy vehicles more than doubled to 41,440 units.

JMC’s annual SUV sales surge 21.48% YoY in 2021

Jiangling Motors Co., Ltd. (JMC) sold 101,516 light buses in 2021, increasing 9.16% from a year ago. The cumulative sales volume of JMC’s SUVs amounted to 53,481 vehicles, jumping 21.48% compared to the previous year.

Dongfeng Infiniti becomes subsidiary under Dongfeng Nissan

Dongfeng Motor Company Limited (DFL) announced that its former Dongfeng Infiniti subsidiary would be included in Dongfeng Nissan’s management system. Thus the premium brand will become Dongfeng Nissan’s third brand, after Nissan and Venucia.

Lifan Technology’s Dec. NEV sales leap 61.4% MoM

Lifan Technology, a Chinese automaker backed by Geely Technology Group, output and sold 1,302 and 1,870 new vehicles in December 2021, representing 1,285.11% and 1,408.06% year-on-year (YoY) growth respectively, the company announced on Tuesday. Notably, NEVs accounted for 100% and 98.4% of the automaker's Dec. outputs and sales.

Former Bosch China executive joins Xiaomi-backed ADAS developer ZongmuTech

On January 4th, China’s autonomous driving developer, ZongmuTech, announced that the former vice president of Bosch (China) Investment Ltd., Zhu Guangwei, has assumed the vice president position in ZongmuTech.

HUAWEI, SERES’s SF5 said to be discontinued with AITO M5 on the market

While SERES, the automaker famous for its partnership with HUAWEI, is drowning in orders for its shiny new HUAWEI AITO M5 model, its initial HUAWEI-powered SF5 model is put in suspected discontinuation.

GAC AION to build second plant with 200,000 NEVs of annual capacity

AC AION, the NEV-dedicated wholly-owned subsidiary of GAC Group, plans to build its second car manufacturing plant with a designed capacity of 200,000 vehicles per year. This proposal has been approved by GAC Group's board of directors.