An Congrong has succeeded Li Shufu as chairman of Geely Auto, in a leadership handover announced at the company’s H1 2026 results briefing on 17 August. Geely Auto Holdings said Li Shufu, chairman of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, resigned as chairman and executive director of Geely Auto, taking the honorary chairman-for-life role while staying chairman … Read more
Gasgoo Embodied Intelligence learned that on 14 August, Pateo (02889.HK) and Yunji Technology (02670.HK) signed a strategic cooperation agreement. Drawing on their respective strengths in smart vehicles and robotics, the two will build a deep partnership and explore a new paradigm for merging smart manufacturing with the robot industry. Pateo and Yunji Technology combine smart-car … Read more
Pony.ai showed its fourth-generation autonomous truck in Guangzhou this month and said it plans to operate between 500 and 1,000 self-driving trucks within two to three years. The truck unit started in 2018 from near zero, when a small team bought a Dongfeng rig and rewired throttle, brake and steering themselves. Eight years on, the … Read more
China has published the world’s first national-level capability-evaluation system covering the full automotive-chip chain. The State Administration for Market Regulation, through the certification and accreditation body CNCA, approved and released five certification and accreditation industry standards that build a structured framework for assessing institutions across the automotive semiconductor sector. China releases the first certification standards … Read more
Storm season is quietly resetting the argument about electric cars and water. When Typhoon White Dolphin made landfall on 9 August, Shanghai recorded close to 300 millimetres of rain and thousands of cars were submerged across several cities. Xiaomi founder Lei Jun used the moment to post a reminder: pay attention to wading ability. Xiaomi’s … Read more
On 12 August, SiEngine announced that its self-developed 7-nanometre automotive-grade AI accelerator, the Tiangong 100 (NNA100), has entered full mass production and begun batch supply to OEMs and Tier-1 partners. The chip is a standalone, plug-in accelerator for on-device agent AI, built to give local large models a complete domestic compute base and fix the … Read more
When Gasgoo reported NIO’s latest charging and swap progress, a reader summed up the scepticism: “That is no moat, it could be a trap.” For long-time watchers that reads as fair. NIO has poured more than 20 billion yuan into charging and swap infrastructure, a classic heavy-asset drag. It posted its first quarterly profit in … Read more
On 11 August in Shenzhen, China Changan Automobile Group and Huawei Technologies signed a strategic framework agreement, the centrepiece of a 12 August wave of OEM and supply-chain news. The two sides will explore cooperation in AI products and scenarios, general and automotive vertical large models, digital infrastructure, compute, software and hardware, and will deepen … Read more
On 23 July, Apollo Go received Hong Kong’s first driverless test licence, and on 27 July it began public-road testing on the airport island with no safety driver inside, the world’s first fully driverless project in a right-hand-traffic system. One day later its sixth-generation RT6 appeared on the streets of London, where on 28 July … Read more
On 28 July, BYD confirmed to media that its humanoid robot product will officially debut and “go on duty” in August, signalling a move from a pure carmaker toward an ecosystem technology group. The same day, the 2026 Fortune Global 500 listed 35 vehicle and parts firms; BYD replaced Tesla as the electric-vehicle sales champion … Read more