Xpeng, one of Tesla’s biggest Chinese competitors, has started building cars in Europe. The ambitious EV maker’s first European models will be built alongside the legendary Mercedes-Benz G-Class. That’s because Xpeng contracted Magna International, the same company that built the Fisker Ocean and Jaguar I-Pace. Chinese electric car maker Xpeng has officially started manufacturing electric…
Chinese makers of smart electric vehicles (EV) will have to redouble their efforts over the next few quarters to stay on track to break even as the brutal discount war in the world’s largest vehicle market shows few signs of abating. From Nio to Xpeng and Zeekr, China’s EV start-ups have been reporting smaller losses…
The US carmaker said on Monday that it would price the Shanghai-made car, which boasts a driving range of 830km, at 259,500 yuan (US$36,391), 10,000 yuan lower than the price it touted on August 12. Deliveries are expected to begin this month. The company is also offering mainland buyers of the car, and some other…
Zhejiang Leapmotor Technology, once a fringe player in China’s electric vehicle (EV) industry, is beating all its start-up rivals by sales and stock gains this year and analysts say there is more to come. The carmaker’s Hong Kong-listed shares have doubled since January – outpacing better-known peers XPeng and Xiaomi – and have surged more…
Visitors tour the booth of BYD during the 2025 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Auto Show in Shenzhen, South China’s Guangdong province, May 31, 2025. (PHOTO / XINHUA) On a recent afternoon at the BYD Tsuen Wan store, office worker Stephen Lam committed to buying his first elective vehicle — a new five-seater SUV…
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) makers Leapmotor and Xpeng reported record sales last month, spurred by the popularity of their inexpensive cars, as a price war faded following Beijing’s intervention to cool the market. After EV builders held back on discounts and interest-free loans to comply with Beijing’s call to end a brutal price war, intelligent…
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker Xpeng launched its G7 SUV on Thursday, sending another contender into a fierce battle in the premium SUV segment of the world’s largest EV market, where it joins Xiaomi’s recently introduced YU7 in taking on Tesla’s market-leading Model Y. Dubbed Xpeng’s first “Super AI [artificial intelligence] car”, the G7 starts…
A slew of mainland-listed Chinese technology companies are speeding up fundraising plans in Hong Kong to capitalise on the upbeat market sentiment. Hong Kong’s equity market has been buoyed by mainland investors’ record buying of HK$731.2 billion (US$93.1 billion) of stocks in the first half of the year, according to Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing…
The Hong Kong government plans to permit more businesses to test higher-capacity aerial vehicles, aiming to boost the low-altitude economy and assess their impact on logistics efficiency and traffic, Deputy Financial Secretary Michael Wong Wai-lun said. Speaking to more than 100 government officials, company executives, venture capitalists and researchers at the International Automotive & Supply…
He Xiaopeng, co-founder and CEO of the Guangzhou-based carmaker, said in Hong Kong on Thursday that testing of its Xpeng Navigation Guided Pilot (X NGP) driver-assistance system in the city would take only two months before sales could begin. However, he added that testing could start only after regulators gave Xpeng the green light to…