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.

Li Auto, Nio and Xpeng, China’s top three premium EV manufacturers, have reported a strong rebound in deliveries in March, while BYD said the sales of its pure electric and plug-in hybrids had surged as well.

The US giant raised the price of its Shanghai-made Model Y on Monday, bucking the trend set by a discount war that is squeezing the profit margins of most of its rivals in the world’s largest electric vehicle (EV) market.

Xiaomi off to a flying start in EV sector with its new SU7, which is priced to take on Tesla’s Model 3 in the competitive Chinese market.

Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi has launched its much-awaited first electric vehicle, pricing the standard model at 215,900 yuan (US$29,867) to take on Tesla’s Model 3 in the world’s largest EV market.

The ‘best looking, easiest to drive and smartest car’ will be priced below 500,000 yuan (US$69,424), CEO Lei Jun says. The company will start taking orders on Thursday.

BYD, the world’s top-selling electric-vehicle maker, is currently discounting almost every model it sells, as part of a marketing campaign declaring ‘electricity is cheaper than oil’.

Just months old, the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Centre says it will release a humanoid robot body soon, but core components still appear out of reach amid its tech war with the US.

The shipping industry executive and sister-in-law to Senator Mitch McConnell had a blood-alcohol level nearly 3 times the legal limit during the fatal accident.

Klaus Pflugbeil, the operator of a China-based business that sells technology used in electric vehicles, was arrested on Tuesday in New York, prosecutors in Brooklyn said.

BYD, Xpeng and GAC Aion’s Hyper brand announced expanded collaborations with Nvidia on Monday.