On the afternoon of March 19, Li Bin, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of NIO, said at the Advanced Manufacturing Summit in Shanghai that the cumulative volume production of NIO’s self-developed chips had exceeded 550,000 units. He said that the automotive semiconductor industry was currently facing three major challenges: a surge in demand for AI computing power, fragmentation of chip architectures, and supply chain fluctuations. NIO was advancing the unification and standardisation of automotive chips, with the goal of covering whole-vehicle selection with no more than 400 specifications; by 2027, the localisation rate of NIO’s automotive semiconductors was expected to reach 35–40.

On the evening of March 18, 2026, at Chery Automobile Battery Night 2026 in Wuhu, Anhui, Chery unveiled its Rhino all-solid-state battery technology. It had completed the development and pilot production of a 60Ah, 400Wh/kg all-solid-state battery cell and was advancing toward an ultra-high energy density of 600Wh/kg.

[Dawn Automobile: Production and Sales of Certain Car Models Surged YoY in February 2026] Dawn Automobile announced that in February 2026, the company’s complete-vehicle production was 281 units, up 3,022.22% YoY; cumulative production for the year was 562 units, up 1,270.73% YoY. Complete-vehicle sales were 123 units, up 61.84% YoY; cumulative sales for the year were 171 units, up 5.56% YoY. Among them, pickup and special-purpose vehicle production and sales both rose sharply YoY. However, axle production and sales both declined YoY, and the YoY decline in new-energy axle production and sales was significant.

At the 2025 (10th) New Energy Industry Expo - New Energy PV ESS Forum hosted by SMM Information & Technology Co., Ltd. (SMM), Liu Guohua, Chief Engineer of the EPC Division of the Power Grid Engineering Company of Northwest Electric Power Design Institute Co., Ltd. under China Power Engineering Consulting Group, shared insights on the topic "Zero-Carbon Industrial Parks: The Next Main Battlefield for Energy Storage."

During the Huawei China Partner Conference 2025, autonomous trucking tech company KargoBot, as a key partner in Huawei's vehicle-road-cloud collaboration initiative, participated in a seminar.

[Ford and SK Joint Venture Battery Factory Announces Early Production] On August 21th, local time, Ford announced that its BlueOval SK battery factory in Kentucky would commence production in mid-2025, earlier than the original plan. This factory, jointly built by Ford and South Korea's SK On, will produce battery cells for E-Transit vans and F-150 Lightning electric vehicles. Previously, the factory was scheduled to commence production at the end of 2025, but due to adjustments in its electrification strategy, the production timeline has been advanced. The factory will commence trial operations this month, with an anticipated annual production capacity of 45GWh upon completion.