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The Bavarian electric aerial taxi developer Lilium has announced a new customer in China. Shenzhen Eastern General Aviation (Heli-Eastern) will order 100 Lilium jets. Heli-Eastern is a provider of helicopter services operating in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, ...

Nio presents ET5 Touring in China and Europe

The Chinese electric car manufacturer Nio has presented the ET5 Touring, the estate version of its ET5 electric sedan. The ET5 Touring was presented in China and Europe at the same time. The second new Nio model for Europe ...

ZF breaks ground on new EV components plant in China

The German automotive supplier ZF has started building its ‘New Energy Vehicle eDrive Project’ in Shenyang in the north-eastern Chinese province of Liaoning. Axle drives are primarily to come off the production line there. According to ZF, the products ...

Buick presents the Electra E4 in China

The General Motors subsidiary Buick has introduced its second electric vehicle for the Chinese market shortly after the launch of its first electric model Electra E5 in China. The Buick Electra E4 is a coupé SUV that is also ...

CATL presents battery swapping system for trucks

The Chinese battery manufacturer CATL has presented a battery-swapping solution for heavy-duty electric trucks. The system, called Qiji Energy, consists of exchange stations, battery packs and a cloud platform. The battery-swapping process is said to take only a few ...

Nio remains in the red over Q1 of 2023

Nio has presented its balance sheet for the first quarter of 2023. The Chinese electric car manufacturer delivered 31,041 vehicles between January and March and also announced that it would reduce the base prices for all its models in ...

Lucid Motors to launch in China with Zhu Jiang

Lucid Motors is making moves to enter the Chinese market. The US electric car manufacturer has hired Zhu Jiang to head its business in China. Zhu Jiang previously worked for Nio, Ford and Jidu Motor, the electric car division ...

BYD & Huaihai planning Na-ion battery factory in China

BYD is going to set up a production facility for sodium-ion batteries in China. In cooperation with the Huaihai Holding Group, BYD wants to become the world’s largest supplier of sodium battery systems for small electric vehicles. BYD’s battery ...

Fisker is bringing the Ocean to China

Fisker has presented its plans for the Chinese market. A delivery centre is to be opened this year and deliveries of the Fisker Ocean are to begin in China in the first quarter of 2024. Fisker also announced plans ...

NEV registrations continue to rise in China over May

Sales of electric cars and plug-in hybrids in China increased again in May. Around 717,000 of the so-called New Energy Vehicles (NEV) were sold, according to data published by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM). As reported, 636,000 ...

AESC breaks ground South Carolina plant to supply BMW

Japan-headquartered battery maker AESC broke ground on its plant in South Carolina, USA, on June 7. The facility, expected to become fully operational in 2026, will support BMW EVs made in the same state. According to AESC, the battery ...

Volkswagen reorganizes production in China

Volkswagen is reorganising its production in China. While early information remains sparse, space is to be created for production of electric cars by bundling production. Among other things, the assembly of combustion models is to be relocated from the ...

Smart’s electric SUV #3 arrives in China

Smart has launched sales of the Smart #3 in China. The second model since the brand’s revamp, presented in April, is an all-electric SUV coupé that will also be launched in the first European markets from the end of ...

China to extend NEV purchase tax excemption

In an effort to boost car consumption in new energy vehicles (BEVs, FCEVs and PHEVs), China’s government plans to extend the NEV purchase tax exemption for at least four more years. The purchase tax exemption was already extended in ...

Mercedes EQE SUV goes on sale in China

Mercedes-Benz has started selling its EQE SUV in China. About half a year after its market launch in Europe, four versions of the new electric model are available there from 486,000 yuan (about €64,000). The EQE SUV thus costs ...

Data leaked on errors in Tesla’s Autopilot functions

A data leak suggests that Tesla has bigger technical problems with its Autopilot driver assistance system than previously thought. Insiders leaked 100 gigabytes of data to the German publication Handelsblatt, which are said to originate from Tesla’s IT system. Informants ...

Nio launches new ES6 edition in China

Nio has launched a new edition of its ES6 in China. The ES6 is the company’s best-selling model on the Chinese market and has now been converted to the new NT 2.0 platform. In February this year, Nio said ...

Gotion High-Tech prepares LMFP cell production

The Chinese battery cell manufacturer Gotion High-Tech has presented a battery cell based on lithium manganese iron phosphate (LMFP), intended to help electric cars achieve ranges of 1,000 kilometres according to Chinese standards. Progress at Gotion High-Tech is closely ...

BMW to build “New Class” electric car in China as well

BMW will also manufacture its “Neue Klasse” or New Class electric cars in China. Following the market launch in 2025, the next-generation EV models will also be produced by the China joint venture BMW Brilliance Automotive (BBA) in Shenyang ...

Tesla executives to visit India & meet PMO officials

The team is said to discuss local sourcing of components for Tesla electric cars. According to a media report, a group of senior Tesla executives will be visiting India this week to meet government officials. The visit is seen as ...

Zeekr launches deliveries of the 001 with Qilin batteries

Geely’s electric car brand Zeekr has started deliveries in China of the Zeekr 001 equipped with CATL’s Qilin batteries. The optional 140 kWh battery allows ranges of up to 1,032 kilometres in the Zeekr 001 WE, according to Chinese ...

BYD acquires another plot in Guangdong to establish automobile industrial park

China-based BYD took a step forward to build an automobile industrial park in Guangdong. The Shenzhen government announced on May 15 that the EV maker obtained an over-520,000-square-meter plot with CNY376 million (US$5.4 million), the fifth it has gotten ...

Korean, Chinese AMOLED panel makers turn to compete in automotive display market, says DIGITIMES Research

Korea-based panel makers Samsung Display and LG Display are working keenly to push their AMOLED panels into automotive applications, eyeing more growth, while China-based makers are also doing the same with the take-off of China’s new energy car industry, ...

Tesla must upgrade all of its cars in China

Tesla has to upgrade the regenerative braking system of all Tesla cars in China via a software update, which adds up to around 1.1 million electric cars. All model series are affected, both imported vehicles and those manufactured in ...

China: 636,000 additional New Energy Vehicles in April

Sales of electric cars and plug-in hybrids in China fell slightly in April. According to data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), 636,000 new energy vehicles (NEVs) were sold in April – 17,000 fewer than in March. ...

Gotion to supply VW with batteries outside of China

The Chinese battery cell manufacturer Gotion High-Tech will in future also supply Volkswagen with LFP cells outside China. The order, the size of which is not yet known, includes unit cells with LFP chemistry and the same specifications as ...

BYD lowers prices for the Seal in China

BYD is lowering the entry-level price in China for its Seal electric sedan, which was introduced last year, to below 200,000 yuan for the first time. Officially, however, BYD is not talking about a price reduction, but about the ...

BorgWarner announces several major orders

The US American automotive supplier BorgWarner has announced several new e-mobility contracts, ranging from supplying drive systems from the US and Europe all the way to China. For the US American and European market deals, BorgWarner has been contracted ...

Nio launches deliveries of the EC7 in China

Nio has started deliveries of its new EC7 model in China. It has still not been decided whether the EC7 will also come to Europe. The all-electric SUV coupé, which was presented at the turn of the year, will ...

Nio to equip EVs with NXP's 4D imaging radar technology

China-based EV company Nio will adopt NXP Semiconductors’ 4D imaging radar technology, according to an announcement on May 2. Only last month, the carmaker invested in a domestic startup developing the same solution. NXP said on Tuesday that Nio ...

Sunwoda sources battery separator films from SK subsidiary

The South Korean company SK IE Technology (SKIET) has reached an agreement with the Chinese battery manufacturer Sunwoda to supply separators for electric car batteries. Initially, the agreement will cover China, but later the supply will also be extended ...

Volkswagen considers launching new EV sub-brand in China

VW takes another step towards establishing a new local sub-brand for electric cars in China. German media reports the new label would incorporate the lines of the ID family, which Chinese customers have met with only moderate enthusiasm. Yet, ...

Li Auto breaks record, delivering more than 25,000 vehicles in a single month

Chinese automaker Li Auto broke new records and became the first high-end electric vehicle (EV) brand in China to deliver more than 25,000 vehicles in a single month. This achievement allowed Li Auto to throw off rivals Xpeng Motors, NIO, ...

StoreDot’s battery cells to be manufactured on three continents

The Israeli battery developer StoreDot has given more details about the planned production of its fast-charging battery cells. The cells are to be manufactured on three continents: in the USA, Europe and Asia. As previously announced, StoreDot is not ...

BYD increase quarterly profit significantly

BYD earned more than five times as much in the first quarter of 2023 as in the same period last year. BYD’s net profit rose by 411 per cent to 4.1 billion yuan (about $592 million). Renvenue increased by ...

Leoni focuses on EV charging cables in new division

Automotive supplier Leoni announces a new business unit. ‘Charging & Power Solutions’ will unify the company’s cable business and focus on electromobility. The product suite ‘EcoSense’ covers cables for all types of charging, including new liquid-cooled solutions for HPC. ...

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