On July 18, Gashi Automobile noticed that relevant media reports in the industry said: Today, some people in the automobile industry revealed on Weibo that hundreds of Volkswagen engineers have settled in Guangzhou Xiaopeng Automobile headquarters.
If the news is true, it means that the technical cooperation between Volkswagen and Xiaopeng Automobile has been comprehensively upgraded.
The source quoted information from sources as saying that “the coverage of the two sides is very broad and the level of cooperation is unprecedented.
“, However, this Weibo post was quickly deleted.
In response, relevant media in the industry asked Xiaopeng Automobile’s public relations department for verification, which declined to comment on the relevant information, but said that detailed information about further cooperation between Volkswagen and Xiaopeng will be disclosed next week.
Source: Xiaopeng Automobile, the technical cooperation between Volkswagen and Xiaopeng originated in July 2023.
At that time, Volkswagen announced plans to invest US$700 million in Xiaopeng Automobile.
The two parties will jointly develop two B-class pure electric vehicles based on their respective core competitiveness and Xiaopeng Automobile’s G9 model platform, smart cockpit and high-end driving assistance system software, and sell them in the Chinese market under the Volkswagen brand.
February this year: Xiaopeng Automobile announced the signing of a strategic technical cooperation joint development agreement and a joint procurement plan with Volkswagen.
The signing of the joint development agreement will not only accelerate the joint research and development of two B-class pure electric vehicles, but also lay a solid foundation for broader and in-depth strategic cooperation between the two parties.
In April this year, Xiaopeng Automobile and Volkswagen issued a joint statement stating that the two parties will sign the latest strategic cooperation framework agreement on electronic and electrical architecture technology, and jointly develop a new electronic and electrical architecture platform based on Xiaopeng Automobile’s latest generation EEA architecture, which is expected to be used in 2026.
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