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Jetta launched the M6 in Chengdu on 22 October at RMB 79,800, RMB 89,800 and RMB 99,800 for the 465 Pro, 555 Max and 555 Ultra trims, putting all three under the RMB 100,000 line. The brand’s slogan for the car is blunt about the target: under 100,000, no compromises. The M6 carries two firsts. … Read more
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with the ministries of public security and ecology and environment and the market regulator, has published a draft notice on vehicle innovation design and validation testing for public comment. It sets safety boundaries around the design language that has defined Chinese electric cars for five years. The … Read more
Tesla finally showed the new Roadster, and it spent most of the event airborne. The car ran a vertical climb, a mid-air roll and a jump over a line of parked Teslas including the Semi, Cybertruck, Cybercab, Model 3 and Model Y, all staged at SpaceX’s McGregor test site in Texas. The new Tesla Roadster … Read more
The first Volkswagen ID. ERA 5X came off the line at the SAIC Volkswagen plant on 16 October, marking the start of mass production for CMP, the group’s first new-energy vehicle platform developed entirely in China. A second model on the same architecture, the ID. AURA L5, follows at FAW Volkswagen later this year. The … Read more
Tesla’s third quarter was flat on the top line and brutal on the bottom line. Revenue reached USD 28.046 billion, down 0.2 per cent year on year. Net profit attributable to ordinary shareholders fell 43 per cent to USD 787 million, or about RMB 5.25 billion. The detail underneath explains the direction of travel. Automotive … Read more
Ursula von der Leyen wants a faster trigger. The European Commission president said Brussels will propose a new trade-defence instrument that could restrict access to the single market at short notice when a surge of cheap imports damages European industry. Cars and vehicle components sit squarely inside that blast radius, though the Commission has not … Read more
Suzhou Limiaoda Intelligent Technology has closed B1 and B2 rounds worth close to RMB 500 million combined, with a B3 round of several hundred million already oversubscribed and in signing. Industrial capital, financial institutions and state-owned strategic investors took part, and existing shareholders followed on. Limiaoda’s composite robots handle material transfer inside class-100 cleanrooms (Source: … Read more
Gamma Robotics has registered in Shanghai’s Xuhui district and moved into Modu Space, the city’s AI incubator cluster. It is the first market-facing company incubated by China Telecom’s AI institute, TeleAI, and it is backed by the operator’s Shanghai AI industry private equity fund. Gamma Robotics is building a self-evolving base model for whole-body humanoid … Read more
Fulin Precision (300432.SZ) and its wholly owned subsidiary Banqiao Intelligent plan a robot electric-joint plant in Mianyang, Sichuan, with total investment of RMB 500 million. The first phase is designed for 2 million joints and core parts a year. Banqiao Intelligent already produces 113,000 joints a month from existing capacity (Source: OFweek) The subsidiary is … Read more
A humanoid robot that walks into a factory is limited less by its brain than by its feet. That is the argument Shenzhen Zhilv Technology makes for rebuilding the sole. The proposed module pairs a standard 7075 aluminium plate with a replaceable dual-density sole (Source: OFweek) In measurements on full-size bipedal machines of 65 to … Read more