Skateboard chassis developer U Power to build commercial vehicle headquarters in Hefei

Shanghai (Gasgoo)- U Power, a Chinese skateboard chassis developer, entered into a cooperation agreement with the government of Feixi county, Hefei city on Sept. 20 at the ongoing 2022 World Manufacturing Convention for its commercial vehicle (CV) headquarters project.

Under the agreement, U Power will set up its CV headquarters in Feixi county, which will be responsible for the R&D, production management, and sales of CV-related products. Local authority will assist the company with construction land, subsidies, and talent services.

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The new project will be conducted in three phases, embracing trial production lines for chassis core parts and complete vehicles, an intelligent skateboard chassis production line, as well as a complete vehicle assembly line.

It is noteworthy that the latest move came after U Power obtained the governmental support from Liuzhou city, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. In late August, U Power struck a deal with local authorities of Liudong New Area, Liuzhou city, regarding an industrial base for skateboard chassis.

As one of the startups in China focusing on skateboard chassis, U Power joined hands with NVIDIA on March 23 this year, to adopt the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion AV platform architecture to build an HPVC (High Performance Vehicle Computer) on its UP Super Chassis.