Providing lifestyle services to vehicle owners is one of NIO’s most important endeavors outside of vehicle sales, and now the company has made a new move.

The percentage increased by 3.48 percentage points from 30.86 percent at the end of July and by 14.02 percentage points from 20.32 percent at the end of January.

As of September 3, NIO has 428 battery swap stations, 291 supercharging stations, 499 destination charging stations, and access to over 400,000 third-party charging piles.

Lotus Technology announced on August 31 that it had received an investment from NIO Capital, the venture capital arm of NIO.

Musk linked the launch of the new model to Tesla achieving a deployable full self-driving system, even asking employees, “Do we want to have this car come with a steering wheel and pedals?”

BYD sold 30,382 pure electric vehicles in August, up 223 percent from 9,414 units a year earlier. It sold 30,126 units of plug-in hybrids in August, up 556 percent from a year earlier.

A total of 53 vehicles of five models were tested at the same time, according to Evergrande.

Neta is currently targeting the affordable market, though a series of recent moves suggest it could launch more competitive models next year.

The company sold a total of 19,227 vehicles in August, down 15.42 percent from a year earlier.

The Hongguang Mini EV offers 120km, 170km NEDC range options and are priced at RMB 37,600 ($5,820) and RMB 43,600 respectively.

Foxconn said one of its subsidiaries signed an agreement with HengDrive, a motor manufacturer, to acquire a 63 percent stake in the latter for about RMB 378 million ($60 million).