Autonomous Driving

XPeng is engineering one of China's boldest EV pricing experiments: sell aggressively to the young, absorb the margin hit, and bet that today's budget buyers become tomorrow's robotaxi and flying-car converts—but the numbers are starting to push back. The MONA L05, a

Six top executives from NIO, Xpeng, BYD, Huawei's Yinwang, Horizon Robotics and Momenta converge at Beijing's marquee auto-tech summit to declare the industry's "second half" has begun — and that the real prize won't arrive until 2028 at the earliest.

Backed by Alibaba, a sovereign AI fund, and Tencent's prior stake, the Beijing-based L4 robotics firm has now raised over RMB 10 billion ($1.39 billion) and deployed more than 30,000 vehicles across nearly 20 countries — signaling that capital consolidation in unmanned delivery has entered a

A joint research team from Beihang University, Tsinghua University's Institute for AI Industry Research , DiDi and Communication University of China has developed DriveTeach-VLA, a new training framework designed to address a fundamental weakness in vision-language-action models for autonomous driving — the disconnect between multimodal perception and

Chinese autonomous driving developer Pony.ai and commercial vehicle manufacturer GAC Lingcheng have formally entered the global autonomous freight race, debuting a jointly developed Level 4 (L4) electric heavy-duty truck at the IAA Transportation show in Hanover on September 14. The launch marks a critical inflection point for China&