Pan Jian, Co-Chairman of CATL: China’s Electric Vehicles Are Transitioning from “EV” to “EIV”
In the Chinese automotive industry, the traditional term ‘EV (electric vehicle)’ has been replaced by the new term ‘EIV (electric intelligent vehicle)’. Pan Jian, co-chairman of CATL, proposed this view at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Pan Jian explained: “‘I’ represents intelligent.” Pan Jian believes that the rapid growth of China’s electric vehicle market is due to the perfect integration of ‘electric’ and ‘intelligent’. “Electricit...