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Tesla launch of ‘new models’ by early 2025 in an advanced timeline would use its current platforms and production lines

Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi has declared initial victory in its foray into the crowded electric vehicle market, claiming more than 70,000 orders for its SU7 sedan in the first month.

Readers discuss the competition among electric vehicle manufacturers in China, and what the country’s leadership should prioritise.

Li Auto , Tesla’s nearest rival in mainland China, reduced the price of all its vehicles by up to 5.7 per cent, just a day after the US carmaker offered discounts to local customers amid an escalating discount war.

Musk has ordered the company’s biggest lay-offs ever and staked its future on a next-generation, self-driving vehicle concept called the robotaxi. People familiar with his directives are unsettled by the changes the CEO wants to push through.

Tesla has cut the prices of its Shanghai-made vehicles by more than 5 per cent in mainland China, joining an intensifying discount war in the country amid a slowdown in the carmaker’s sales globally.

The planned visit would have included a meeting with Prime Minister Modi and the announcement of plans for Tesla to enter the Indian market.

Mainland China’s tech sector is bracing for a new round of job cuts at Ericsson, Tesla, Amazon.com and Intel.

The affected vehicles have a fault with their accelerators that could cause the pedal to jam, Tesla said.

Beijing-based Li Auto has priced the new L6 SUV from 249,800 yuan (US$34,509) onwards, 5 per cent cheaper than Tesla’s popular Model Y.

Only a few dozen employees at the Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai were told to leave, representing a tiny portion of the workforce of 20,000 assembling Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, say two people with knowledge of the matter.

Carmakers like Dongfeng, Chery and BYD are eyeing production sites in Europe to assemble the next generation of electric vehicles as a foil against the EU’s protectionist tariffs as a brutal price war at home drives more producers offshore in search of fresh markets.

Chinese state-owned carmaker Chery Automobile takes a step into Europe’s EV markets as its Omoda brand establishes a partnership with UK car rental company Octopus Electric Vehicles.

Xiaomi’s roaring entry into the electric vehicle market is dimming the recovery outlook for China’s beaten down car start-ups, with better-than-expected initial orders for the SU7 helping a rally its shares.

Spotlight Automotive, BMW’s 50-50 EV venture with mainland Chinese partner Great Wall Motor, is designing new models that it hopes to sell globally.

Huawei announced new versions of its Luxeed S7 electric sedan and a PC with AI built in, but people are still awaiting its next big smartphone launch since the Mate 60.

Bad Bunny rolled up to a leg of his tour in one of these, while Justin Bieber and Pharrell Williams have also been photographed with the massive vehicle

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said artificial intelligence (AI) would be smarter than the smartest human probably by next year, or by 2026, adding that AI development was constrained by the availability of electricity.

Walter Huang was killed on the way to work in 2018 when his Model X swerved off a highway near San Francisco. His family had alleged that Autopilot steered the vehicle into a highway barrier.

Li Auto, Tesla’s nearest rival in mainland China, plans to start selling a new, more economical model aimed at families amid a price war in the country’s electric vehicle market.

Brazil Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes opened an inquiry into whether Elon Musk obstructed justice, escalating a spat with the billionaire over his social media platform X.

Strong sales of smartphone vendor Xiaomi’s first electric car have exacerbated a price war in the sector that is squeezing the profit margins of most players in China.

Washington fears that Chinese cars may be able to come over the southern border with zero tariffs under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

The victim’s lawyers said Apple was ‘secretly’ manoeuvring to support Tesla’s attempt to blame distracted driving for the 2018 accident.

Guangzhou-based Aion will partner with Jakarta-based carmaker Indomobil Group. Aion’s first Southeast Asia plant, in Thailand, is expected to start production this summer.

Tesla is the world’s largest maker of pure electric cars again after outselling its closest rival, BYD, during the first quarter of this year, according to data published by the companies.

Xiaomi has locked in an estimated 40,000 orders of the SU7 as of Tuesday.