CnEVPost Newsletter: NIO said to announce plans for expansion into Europe on May 6-7

Apr 16, 2021

The highly anticipated plans for NIO's entry into Europe may soon be announced.

NIO to report Q1 earnings on April 29, over 20,000 vehicles delivered in the quarter - CnEVPost — cnevpost.com NIO delivered 20,060 vehicles in the first quarter, up 422.7 percent year-on-year, the first time it has reached over 20,000 deliveries in a single quarter.

In rare move, XPeng signs deal with China's second-largest auto dealer to expand sales - CnEVPost The direct sales model is seen as one of the key labels for emerging electric car companies, and now XPeng Motors doesn't seem content with just that sales model.

Tesla settles with former engineer it accused of stealing Autopilot source code for XPeng - CnEVPost Tesla has reached a settlement with former engineer Cao Guangzhi, ending a two-year lawsuit that implicated the US EV maker's Chinese rival XPeng Motors.

Huawei says its self-driving technology is better than Tesla's, and this video convinced us - CnEVPost Huawei said on Monday that its self-driving technology is better than Tesla's, and we were a little skeptical. Now, with a vehicle equipped with its technology on the road, we're starting to believe that Huawei's claim was true.

This is what Huawei relies on to achieve its self-driving capabilities - CnEVPost The car is equipped with three LiDARs, six millimeter-wave radars, and nine cameras for autonomous driving, and is powered by a Huawei processor with up to 400Tops of computing power.

Baidu Apollo to participate in Shanghai auto show as independent exhibitor for first time - CnEVPost Baidu Apollo's technologies for open road experience at the auto show include the WM W6's autonomous parking and ANP, which supports L4 autonomous driving on China's complex urban roads.

WM Motor's L4 driverless-capable WM W6 goes on sale, priced from around $26,000 - CnEVPost The vehicle is the first production model in China with L4 driverless capability, equipped with Baidu Apollo's unmanned autonomous parking system AVP, and is also the first vehicle in China to apply SOA (service-oriented architecture).

BYD to add 6 new production lines for blade batteries - CnEVPost The first and second phases of BYD's power battery production base will have a combined annual capacity of 35GWh at full capacity.

Cars with DJI's intelligent driving system said to be launched as soon as this year - CnEVPost DJI Automotive, a subsidiary of Drone maker DJI, has started working with car companies, and mass-produced cars equipped with DJI's intelligent driving system will be released as soon as this year.

Honda China partners with AutoX for self-driving road testing - CnEVPost Honda China and AutoX, a self-driving technology company, announced Friday that they have partnered to launch road driving tests featuring Accord and Inspire models in order to explore self-driving solutions.