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NIO said on Thursday its Onvo L90 three-row sports utility vehicle will start at just RMB 193,900 ($27,052), if customers subscribe to its monthly

Huawei has started its teasing game for the first model under the electric vehicle brand “Shangjie” with Chinese automaker SAIC, on Monday publishing

The news comes after Mercedes-Benz and Audi reached similar deals with Momenta for the use of such technologies on their upcoming CLA Class and E5 Sportback.

Chinese search engine giant Baidu has made major progress in its years-long push to develop robotaxis, with the announcement on Tuesday that it is set to deploy “thousands” of autonomous vehicles on Uber's ride-hailing service across multiple markets outside mainland China and the US. Meanwhile, China's largest rental car platform, CAR Inc., is adding some of Baidu's robotaxis to its fleets, allowing customers to rent a fully driverless car at an extremely low price in a major Chinese city.

Chinese tech giant Baidu and self-driving car unicorn Pony.ai have been given permission to operate their fully autonomous ride-hailing services

A public spat erupted recently between senior executives of the companies, while their sales employees raised concerns over shortcomings in their competitors’ offerings, according to a TechNode reporter’s observations.

Desperate to promote sales of its first all-electric sports utility vehicle, China's Li Auto has reduced prices of the Li i8 by as much as RMB 20,000 ($2,782) just one week after its launch.

Xpeng expects hybrid cars to accelerate its expansion to overseas markets such as Europe, where EV adoption has stalled and even declined in some places compared with China. Sales of Xpeng's first hybrid EV will start in China before a roll out later in the rest of the world, chief executive He Xiaopeng told reporters at the company's AI tech day event last October.

The company's market share in China surpassed 10% for the first time in the first half of this year, only 4% behind the country's top seller of automobiles, BYD, according to Geely Auto's executive president Gui Shengyue. Geely will be looking to fill in “some blank spots” in new energy vehicle markets in an attempt to catch up with and even overtake the leader, Gui said at the same meeting (our translation).

The Chinese bike-sharing giant is betting on LLM-inspired AI to leapfrog US-based titans in the global robotaxi race.