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
For years, Sinian Intelligent Driving was known almost entirely for one thing: autonomous driving in ports. Compared with robotaxis and city NOA, port automation is a quiet corner of the industry, a closed scenario with a limited market and long, fiddly delivery cycles. Easy to dismiss as a niche. Then Sinian closed a RMB 300 … Read more
When July sales landed, one line stood out. Leapmotor delivered 101,300 vehicles globally in July 2026, up 102 per cent year on year and its first month above 100,000. Its overseas sales were 17,000-plus, implying roughly 84,300 domestic deliveries. Leapmotor publishes July 2026 delivery figures. (Source: chedongxi) Leapmotor July global deliveries pass 100,000. (Source: chedongxi) … Read more
Momenta listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 8 July 2026, raising HK$5.89 billion in its initial public offering. Fourteen cornerstone investors, including Singapore’s GIC, Fidelity, Mercedes-Benz and BYD, took up nearly half the shares on offer, an unusual line-up that put a German luxury brand, a Chinese EV leader and a sovereign fund … Read more
On 5 August 2026, SAIC Motor and General Motors signed a 20-year extension of their China joint venture, SAIC-GM, pushing the partnership to 2047. The renewal is framed by both sides as a vote of confidence in the Chinese market and in SAIC-GM’s ability to transform itself into a competitive new-energy vehicle (NEV) maker. SAIC … Read more
Chery takes over Nissan’s 63-year-old South Africa factory as China’s auto exports approach 10 million, 2.5 times Japan’s total.
A list that caught a vacuum On 28 July, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) updated its Covered List with two new categories: foreign-made advanced robot devices (including humanoids, quadrupeds and other mobile robots) and networked power inverters. No company is named, but the definition lands squarely on China’s most exportable robot categories. The telling … Read more
A second act, from cars to bodies On 29 July, reports said Li Auto was planning two-wheeled and bipedal robots, and its shares rose 10 percent that day. XPeng’s own share rallies have likewise tracked robot news. The pattern shows a shift in the underlying story: the three newcomers, NIO, XPeng and Li Auto (collectively … Read more