EV & Mobility

Past one million cars, Huawei Qiankun re-architects its autonomous driving for safety

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Seeing more clearly Huawei stays on multi-sensor fusion, recently shipping distributed millimetre-wave radar, high-resolution solid-state lidar, a lidar-vision unit called Limera, and an 896-line dual-path lidar. The point is cross-verification: when one sensor degrades in fog, glare or occlusion, the others keep reading the road. Understanding the world Beyond perception, Qiankun moves to the WEWA … Read more

Before Solid-State Batteries ‘Flip the Table,’ China Is Betting on the Hybrid

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Huang Xuejie, a leading Chinese lithium-battery scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has a timing argument the industry should hear: 2026 is the mass-production year for hybrid solid-liquid batteries, and full solid-state will not “flip the table” until after 2035. Between now and then, the hybrid is where the money and the deployment are. … Read more

Gotion and CALB Are Racing Into Huawei’s ‘Whale’ Battery Platform, 0.08% Apart

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The narrative that battery makers only earn thin margins is over. At the 2026 Greater Bay Area auto show, only two power-battery makers, CALB and Gotion High-tech, took independent stages, and in the first four months of the year their installed volumes differed by just 0.14 GWh, a 0.08 per cent gap in share, slotting … Read more

China Moves to Ban ADAS ‘Blue Lights’ on New Cars

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A clear regulatory signal is circulating in China’s auto industry: the external ‘blue light’ that marks a car’s assisted-driving system as active will be banned on all passenger cars, because it fails the national standard GB4785 on the installation of exterior lighting and light-signal devices. The blue light is a recent add-on from many new-force … Read more

Chinese Cars Cost Double Overseas — And That’s the Point

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Chinese automakers are selling cars overseas at nearly double the domestic price. This isn’t price gouging — it’s strategy. Take the Xiaopeng MONA L03, launched in Munich on July 16. In Germany, the pure EV version starts at €35,600 ($27.6K USD equivalent). In China, the same car starts at ¥123,800 ($17.2K). The markup is nearly … Read more

The Wuhan-Paris Axis: 2030, The Kill Switch for American Autos

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Part II of How Stellantis Rewrites the Transatlantic EV Playbook In Part I, we mapped the Wuhan-Paris axis — a dual arbitrage allowing Stellantis to shore up its European defences using Chinese engineering. That was the dress rehearsal. The ultimate prize lies across the Atlantic, where Detroit continues to slumber inside its tariff-protected greenhouse. Stellantis … Read more

VW will be bought by BYD, said Schularick. He’s wrong about the verb.

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Editorial conceptual cartoon illustrating BYD as a digital Pac-Man displacing the legacy Volkswagen mechanical gear emblem.

VW will be bought by BYD, said Schularick. He’s wrong about the verb. Moritz Schularick, president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, said Volkswagen would “likely be bought by a Chinese car maker like BYD.” The press amplified it. Headlines ran with “buys” and “takes over.” A few editorial cartoonists went further, drawing … Read more