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Changan Automobile

(长安汽车)

Changan Automobile

长安汽车

The latest news on Changan Automobile, a Chinese car manufacturer headquartered in Chongqing, including automobile and technology news.

Chairman / President

Zhu Huarong

CEO / Managing Director

Tan Benhong

CFO / Finance Director

Zhang Deyong

Industry

Automobiles

Website

globalchangan.com

Headquarters address

Chongqing, China

Stock Code

SZSE: 000625

Year founded

1862

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Electric & new energy vehicles

Xpeng CEO says flying car market will be bigger than EVs over next two decades

CEO He Xiaopeng believes the global flying car market could reach US$2 trillion in the next two decades, double the size of land vehicles.

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Electric & new energy vehicles

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Electric & new energy vehicles

Beijing sees Hong Kong as launch pad for Chinese EV makers to go global

Hong Kong ‘can act as a two-way gateway for Chinese EV makers to go overseas and bring in new technologies’.

28 Nov 2024 - 8:30AM

A Leapmotor factory in Jinhua, China. Photo: Agence France Presse

Electric & new energy vehicles

A peek at EVs’ future at Beijing show as oil-guzzlers stay on sidelines

The era of battery-powered cars has truly arrived, as EVs dominated the car show. While carmakers still displayed a lot of futuristic concepts, it was the ongoing price war that had people talking.

27 Sep 2024 - 10:39AMvideocam

Tencent

Tencent pushes wider adoption of AI-powered smart mobility system in auto sector

The Chinese tech giant already counts more than 100 carmakers and various automotive industry players as partners.

25 Apr 2024 - 9:00AM

Electric & new energy vehicles

Nio working with CATL to develop batteries with longer lifespans

The two companies aim to churn out EV batteries that can last for as long as 15 years, nearly double the current average lifespan, which could help EV users save tens of thousands of yuan, they say.

15 Mar 2024 - 7:00AMvideocam

A Nio battery swap station in Taicang, in China’s Jiangsu province. The EV maker and CATL are already partnering on swappable batteries. Photo: Getty Images

Electric & new energy vehicles

China’s EV price war to hot up as carmakers price models below 100,000 yuan

Analysts says lower battery costs are enabling EV makers to discount prices amid tougher competition and efforts to take more share from petrol car manufacturers.

20 Feb 2024 - 9:00PM

Huawei

Huawei’s EV partner Seres expects reduced 2023 losses, sees road to profits

Seres expects its losses for last year to fall between US$295 million and US$380 million, narrowing from US$535 million in 2022.

29 Jan 2024 - 7:08PMvideocam

Didi Chuxing

Chinese EV battery giant CATL to share swapping tech with Didi in joint venture

The companies will work together to build out battery-swapping stations, which have been growing more rapidly than fixed charging in China.

28 Jan 2024 - 6:00PMvideocam

A battery-swapping station from Chinese electric vehicle maker Nio, the market leader in building such facilities. Photo: Handout

Automotive industry

Chinese car dealer’s collapse signals another tough year for stagnating market

Guangdong Yongao Investment Group, which operated some 80 stores across the southern province of Guangdong, notified customers last week that it had gone bankrupt and orders had been suspended.

23 Jan 2024 - 9:50AMvideocam

A slew of Chinese and foreign car dealerships are seen in Beijing in this file photo from October 2018. Photo: Reuters

Huawei

Huawei sets up new smart car unit to cover equipment and AI solutions

Huawei’s new smart car unit will cover smart car equipment manufacturing, AI system integration services, and AI software development, among other areas, according to records.

17 Jan 2024 - 10:46PM

Electric & new energy vehicles

BYD plans US$14 billion investment in smart cars to keep up with rivals

BYD will invest 100 billion yuan (US$14 billion) in smart cars, as the company expects intelligent new energy vehicles to be the next industry battlefield, founder and CEO Wang Chuanfu says.

17 Jan 2024 - 1:01PMvideocam

Semiconductors

Nvidia reveals progress in China’s self-driving chip market as competition revs up

Nvidia reveals progress in China’s self-driving chip market, setting it up for competition with domestic players such as Huawei as country moves forward with autonomous driving.

11 Jan 2024 - 9:14PM

Nvidia has signed up Great Wall Motors, Li Auto, Xiaomi, and Geely-backed ZEEKR for its Drive Thor autonomous driving system. Photo: Reuters

Huawei

Huawei sees 9 per cent sales growth in 2023, boosted by Mate 60 Pro 5G comeback

Huawei returns to form in 2023 with new 5G smartphone and progress on diversification drive, although rotating chairman cautions on tough external environment in new year message.

29 Dec 2023 - 4:03PM

Huawei’s rotating chairman says intelligent automotive solutions business became more competitive in the past year. Photo: Xinhua

Electric & new energy vehicles

Nio unveils ET9 executive sedan, its most expensive EV yet

The Shanghai-based carmaker said the ET9, an executive sedan with a host of cutting-edge technologies it has developed, will be priced at about US$112,151, and is expected in the first quarter of 2025.

24 Dec 2023 - 3:41PMvideocam

IPO

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24 Dec 2023 - 11:00AM

Electric & new energy vehicles

China’s Hozon kicks off operations at its first overseas factory, in Thailand

Hozon New Energy Automobile has started assembling vehicles in Thailand at its first overseas factory as it steps up its efforts to tap the Southeast Asian market.

1 Dec 2023 - 8:30PMvideocam

The Neta V-II is the company’s first right-hand drive model developed for some markets outside mainland China, including Southeast Asia. Photo: Captured from WEIBO

Electric & new energy vehicles

Nio, Geely sign pact to further battery swap technology and rid EV’s ‘range anxiety’

Nio will team up with Zhejiang Geely to promote battery swapping technology as the two leading EV makers try to overcome poor charging infrastructure in the world’s biggest EV market.

29 Nov 2023 - 5:51PM

Huawei

Huawei accelerates smart car ambitions, invites carmakers to invest in venture

Huawei called on current partners Seres, Chery, JAC and BAIC to take a stake in a new joint venture initiated by Huawei and Changan Automobile.

28 Nov 2023 - 9:15PMvideocam

Huawei

Huawei to offer cloud, AI tech to China’s top copper pipe exporter

Huawei Technologies said it will provide cloud, 5G and AI solutions to Chinese copper pipe maker Hailiang Group, as the US-sanctioned telecommunications giant seeks ways to diversify its revenue streams.

28 Nov 2023 - 5:45PM

Huawei

Huawei, state-owned carmaker form smart-vehicle joint venture

The surprise announcement shows Huawei’s ambitions in the car business despite repeatedly denying that the company will make its own vehicles.

27 Nov 2023 - 6:22PM

Electric & new energy vehicles

Chinese EV makers Nio and Changan tie up to promote battery swapping technology

Shanghai-based Nio has formed a partnership with state-owned Changan Automobile to build EVs equipped with battery swapping technology to ease drivers’ range anxiety.

21 Nov 2023 - 8:23PMvideocam

Electric & new energy vehicles

Chinese carmakers lead in EVs, lag in decarbonising supply chains: Greenpeace

China’s largest traditional carmakers are falling behind their global peers on supply chain decarbonisation and material use efficiency, dampening the positive impact of the country’s fast roll-out of electric cars, according to a new report.

20 Oct 2023 - 9:00AMvideocam

Thailand

Thailand still bullish on Chinese investments as new PM heads to Beijing

Net foreign direct investment to Thailand from China in the first six months of 2023 was up 56 per cent year-on-year to US$690 million, central bank data showed.

17 Oct 2023 - 4:55PMvideocam

Thailand’s Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport to attend the Third Belt and Road Forum in China on Monday. Photo: Reuters/Pool

China-EU relations

Opinion | In Thailand, China’s EV makers have found a refuge from EU subsidy probe

Thailand is quickly becoming Southeast Asia’s EV manufacturing hub as Chinese carmakers escaping geopolitical tensions set up shop in a state which has good relations with all the great powers.

3 Oct 2023 - 3:30PMvideocam

Performers present Hozon NETA V, a Chinese electric car, in Bangkok on August 24, 2022. Hozon Auto is among several Chinese EV makers with plans to set up production in Thailand. Photo: EPA-EFE

Electric & new energy vehicles

China’s SAIC Motor expects 20% export increase, led by MG brand

‘The revival of the MG brand shows China’s rising manufacturing might in the automotive sector,’ an analyst says, as SAIC leads the country’s push to overtake Japan in annual car exports this year.

13 Sep 2023 - 3:30PM

Electric & new energy vehicles

Carmaker Changan follows BYD, Great Wall into Southeast Asia with Thailand factory

State-owned Changan Automobile said it plans to build an EV plant in Thailand, becoming the latest Chinese carmaker to invest in the Southeast Asian market amid cutthroat domestic competition.

25 Aug 2023 - 3:15PM

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