1. Volkswagen denies calling on the EU to impose additional tariffs on Chinese hybrid vehicles. 2. MIIT inspects Aion and XPeng; is it related to battery malfunctions? Insider: No direct connection heard; perhaps it's an industry-wide inspection. 3

2026-07-28

1. Volkswagen denies calling on the EU to impose additional tariffs on Chinese hybrid vehicles. 2. MIIT inspects Aion and XPeng; is it related to battery malfunctions? Insider: No direct connection heard; perhaps it's an industry-wide inspection. 3. MIIT: Over 20,000 intelligent connected vehicle testing and demonstration licenses issued nationwide. 4. MIIT: Accelerating the drafting and release of the "15th Five-Year Plan" for the development of the intelligent connected new energy vehicle industry. 5. Li Auto product line head: i6 production decreased in mid-to-late July; overall vehicle production has now returned to normal. 6. Porsche will cut 5,000 jobs by 2035 according to an agreement with its German factories. 7. Beijing's passenger car L2-level assisted driving penetration rate reached 77.5% in the first half of the year; L3 mass-produced models were the first to be launched. 8. Germany's plug-in electric vehicle market share reached 37.7% in the second quarter. 9. Stellantis Group announced it has agreed to sell Free2move's car-sharing business to Mustares. 10. According to an organization, the installed capacity of power batteries in the first half of the year was approximately 334.7 GWh, a year-on-year increase of 16%. 11. Mercedes-Benz Group's revenue in the second quarter was €32.1 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 3.31%, with a profit of €1.5 billion.