CnEVPost Newsletter: NIO warming up for NIO Day; XPeng hiring rocket scientists

NIO lights up major landmarks in Suzhou for NIO Day 2021 - CnEVPost — cnevpost.com Three major landmarks in Suzhou have been lit up by NIO to showcase the theme of its upcoming event - Hello World.

NIO reveals event schedule for NIO Day 2021 - CnEVPost Newest member of the NIO product family, Alan Walker's first-ever virtual show and a new single from NIO Band.

NIO adds 10 swap stations, bringing total to 732 - CnEVPost NIO reached 170 battery swap stations along highways, achieving its goal of 169 by the Chinese New Year ahead of schedule.

Leaked job ad shows XPeng hiring rocket scientists - CnEVPost XPeng is hiring senior ballistic design engineers to be responsible for the overall design, ballistic performance numerical calculations of small rockets, a screenshot of a job ad shows.

Mercedes-Benz introduces EQS to China with starting price 2.4 times that of NIO ET7 - CnEVPost Mercedes-Benz offers four versions of the EQS with retail prices of RMB 1,079,600 - RMB 1,518,600.

CITIC Securities sees potential market space of about $500 billion for Robotaxis in China - CnEVPost Robotaxi has the largest market space in autonomous driving application scenarios and is also the most challenging in terms of L4 autonomous driving technology, according to CITIC Securities.

Kaixin Auto says it gets over $500 million in new energy truck orders - CnEVPost Kaixin's shares rose over 30 percent in early trading after the announcement.