1. Xiaomi car crash involving self-driving feature sparks concerns in China Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun unveils the SU7 Ultra in Beijing on October 29, 2024. The car model was involved in an accident on the mainland on Saturday, which claimed three lives. Photo: Reuters Xiaomi will cooperate with the police after an accident involving the autonomous driving feature of its SU7 electric vehicle (EV) claimed three lives, sparking concern over the rapid proliferation of self-navigating systems on the mainland. 2. Self navigating to the top: why China leads the global autonomous-driving race Chinese companies are the vanguard of autonomous-driving, investing billions of dollars and employing thousands of engineers to analyse fleet data and train algorithms to reduce failure rates, according to David Zhang, the general secretary of the International Intelligent Vehicle Engineering Association (IIVEA). 3. Top Chinese EV makers power ahead thanks to subsidies, tax incentives Employees work on a production line at a Zeekr factory in Cixi, Zhejiang province on March 19, 2025. Photo: Reuters Leading Chinese electric-vehicle (EV) makers reported strong sales growth in the first quarter of this year, as they continued to throttle rivals who manufacture petrol-powered cars. 4. China to crack down on unfair EV price cuts to stabilise industry People visit the Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition in April 2023. Photo: AFP China has pledged to improve oversight of the country’s electric vehicle (EV) market to curb undercutting and boost the industry’s overall fortunes, where only three EV makers are currently profitable. 5. BYD beats Tesla again as sales top US$100 billion on surging EV deliveries People check a BYD electric vehicle in Shanghai. Photo: Reuters Chinese electric-car (EV) maker BYD is setting new sales milestones in its global rivalry with Tesla, after snatching its crown as the world’s biggest in terms of deliveries. 6. EV expert Xu Fuguo returns to China after leaving US$30 million project in Japan Xu Fuguo has been appointed professor in the mechanical engineering school at Dalian University of Technology. Photo: Handout An electric vehicle control systems researcher, Xu Fuguo, has left a high-profile 4.5 billion yen (US$30 million) Japanese government-funded project and joined Dalian University of Technology in northeastern China amid intensifying global competition in the EV sector. 7. Xpeng CEO says flying car market will be bigger than EVs over next 2 decades Chinese companies are gearing up to redefine the future of transport, betting big on flying cars and robotaxis as competition in the world’s largest electric vehicle (EV) market intensifies.
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