Xiaomi said on Tuesday it was cooperating with authorities after two of its vehicles were involved in separate fire incidents in southern and central China, adding that battery systems were operating normally before the vehicles went offline. No injuries were reported. The first incident occurred at around 5 p.m. in Haikou, Hainan province, where a Xiaomi vehicle parked in an auto repair shop caught fire and was extinguished by firefighters, the company said. Earlier the same day, a Xiaomi YU7 w...

China’s CATL and Dutch-based Stellantis have broken ground on a €4.1 billion ($4.75 billion) lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery plant in Spain’s Aragon region, one of the largest Chinese investment projects in the country. The facility will run entirely on renewable energy and is scheduled to start production by the end of 2026. The joint venture plans annual capacity of up to 50 GWh, supplying LFP batteries for electric vehicles and aiming to achieve full carbon neutrality in its operat...

Credit: Xiaomi Xiaomi yesterday issued an urgent clarification regarding circulating online claims that a fire had broken out on the battery production line at the company’s auto factory. Xiaomi said a small fire in the battery workshop of its auto factory in 2024 stemmed from an operational error during equipment testing, not from any defects in its vehicle batteries. The company said an operator, working in manual mode during debugging and optimisation, mistakenly caused a collision between...

Huawei announced today that its upcoming Mate 80 series, set to launch on Nov. 25, will make a debut of a new Outdoor Exploration Mode designed to deliver up to 14 days of extreme battery life. A newly released promotional video contrasts a constantly charging adventurer with a Mate 80 user in the field, though the company has not yet disclosed detailed specifications. Tech blogger Digital Chat Station earlier said the Mate 80 Pro Max and Mate 80 RS models will feature next-generation 6.89-inch...

Chinese EV maker XPeng has unveiled its next-generation IRON humanoid robot at the 2025 XPeng Tech Day, calling it “the most human-like humanoid robot.” The IRON robot features a bionic “bone–muscle–skin” structure with a flexible spine, synthetic muscles, soft full-body skin, and 22 degrees of freedom in its dexterous hands. It runs on a physical-world foundation model powered by three Turing AI chips, combining advanced vision, language, and locomotion capabilities as part of a mul...