Auto Shanghai’s Tesla killers: EV launches from Nio, Xpeng and Geely threaten Elon Musk’s crown as AI, lidar and battery swapping tech puts China’s car brands ahead for Gen Z

• Nio, not Rolls-Royce or Bentley, developed Nomi, an in-car voice-controlled assistant complete with a virtual ‘face’
• Tesla’s Elon Musk abandoned battery swapping but Nio CEO, William Li, is building 5,000 stations across China – and thinking global next?