Shenzhen News reported on 12 August that Ruqi’s Robotaxi fleet capacity has been connected to Tencent’s Travel Service WeChat mini-program. In zones including Guangzhou’s Nansha and Science City, users can now hail a Ruqi Robotaxi through the Tencent entry point. Ruqi Robotaxi is now bookable inside Tencent’s Travel Service mini-program (Source: Shenzhen News) Inside a … Read more
Hong Kong’s Transport Department has granted an autonomous-vehicle pilot licence for a trial linking the West Kowloon HSR station and the Airport Express, its ninth such licence covering 69 vehicles.
Cui Dixiao joined autonomous-truck startup PlusAI in 2017, straight from a lectureship at Xi’an Jiaotong University, where he earned a doctorate under autonomous-driving pioneer Zheng Nanning. Seven years later, in 2025, he left as chief scientist. What he learned reshaped how he sees the industry. ‘I underestimated the complexity of autonomous driving,’ he says now. … Read more
On 1 August, fourteen carmakers published July sales. The picture splits cleanly between camps. Among new-energy startups, three more than doubled year on year: Leapmotor at 101,300 (up 102 per cent), Zeekr at 35,800 (up 111 per cent) and Arcfox at 23,500 (up 150 per cent). Leapmotor, the sales leader among startups, set a record … Read more
China’s long-awaited mandatory national standard for L3 and L4 autonomous driving has finally got a launch date. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has opened the draft compulsory safety standard for autonomous driving systems to public comment. The standard replaces a voluntary guideline and, for the first time, sets a legally binding floor for … Read more
Great Wall Motor and Chery Group have each been out-sold in China’s domestic market by a younger rival. The July sales sheets, published in early August, hold a striking detail. Leapmotor delivered 101,300 vehicles globally in July, up 102 per cent year on year and its first month above 100,000, making it the first Chinese … Read more
Horizon Robotics has released HSD V2.0, the latest version of its assisted-driving software. The headline change is the addition of a world model and end-to-end reinforcement learning on top of what the company calls a one-stage end-to-end architecture. HSD V2.0 was tested on a 12-kilometre route through Beijing including Sanlitun. (Source: Leiphone) Leiphone joined a … Read more
Huawei’s Harmony Intelligent Mobility Alliance has launched its first MPVs above the million-yuan price point. The Maextro V680 starts at 648,000 yuan and the V800 at 766,000 yuan. A special “Yunshui Tianqing” design package adds 150,000 yuan, taking the top V800 Navigator edition to 1.166 million yuan. The V800 is 5.495 metres long and aimed … Read more
In 2025, Hello (the ride-hailing and bike-sharing platform) formed Zaofu Intelligent with Ant Group and CATL and entered robotaxis with an ambitious target: deploy 10,000 robotaxis by 2027. By then, Pony.ai had already reached single-city profitability, WeRide and Apollo Go were expanding abroad, and Waymo was still growing its fleet. A 2025 entrant looked late. … Read more
FAW Jiefang’s J6E large-customer custom edition has begun rolling off the line and into delivery. The strategic model, already well regarded in express-delivery fleets, was tailored to the pain points of leading logistics operators, and its headline feature is a Level 2-plus trunk combined assisted-driving system fromZhitu Technology. FAW Jiefang J6E large-customer custom edition at … Read more