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China, today, an updated Denzer D9 BYD sues Trump, and cherry claims a breaking breakthrough.

Plus stay tuned, later in the show, I'll tell you why a Beijing court has opened

a trial of a high-profile automotive content creator, not me, I'm not high-profile,

accused of damaging an EV's reputation.

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EV industry and decode how fast moving developments in the east shape the

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BYD's updated Denzer D9 EV has surfaced online.

So now we've got some more details on this, a stronger motor lineup,

and what looks like a larger battery pack.

They've not been overly specific on this, but it's heavier than the outgoing one,

according to the online industry filings.

And so, you know, two and two could be five.

We think the battery pack is going to be a little bit bigger on this.

The Denzer D9, by the way, is the big three-row MPV, People Carrier.

It'll fit three in the rear row and two captain's chairs in the second row.

And a very distinctive, highly-patterned front grille and the big

lidar sensor on the top as well.

So this is one of those huge MPVs that we see coming out of China,

increasingly popular.

Official battery specifications and range figures still under wraps.

The updated D9 is front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive.

So front-wheel drive uses a new, slightly more powerful, 340 kilowatt motor.

That's 456 horsepower.

The all-wheel drive adds a rear-mounted motor at 70 kilowatts,

which is up 25 kilowatts on the old version.

So combined power on that 410 kilowatts or 550 horsepower.

Inside, the second row seats don't fold completely down,

but they do slide forwards and backwards.

The third row seats both fold and slide for a bit more practicality.

The updated model also gets the latest generation of BYD, God's Eye 5.

Sisters driving assistance system, pricing not set.

So let's look at the existing one that's on the road right now

before this was updated, the 2025 Denza D9,

which I must admit from the outside looks incredibly similar

to the pictures that have been placed with the ministry.

The outgoing one sells for between 320 and 470 yuan.

That's about 46,000 to 67,000 US equivalent.

BYD will add a battery electric variant

of the Fang Cheng Bao best-selling SUV, the TIE 7,

currently only a plug-in hybrid.

The TIE 7 full bev, a couple of motor options,

rear-wheel drive or all-wheel drive, maximum power 300 kilowatts

in rear-wheel drive form and 515 kilowatts in all-wheel drive form.

BYD uses their blade battery pack,

but in the filing didn't reveal the capacity nor range.

The bev version keeps the TIE 7's boxy off-road look.

This is a little bit Sryvian R1S SUV.

It's a little bit Land Rover Defender-y.

So looking a bit four by four, looking a bit off-roadery,

looking a little bit squared off on this one.

We still see the two-tone bumper, the LiDAR at the front,

the kind of normal traditional door handles that you'd grab,

the externally rear-mounted spare tire on the side-swinging boot.

So it's that kind of vehicle

if you can picture it in your mind's eye, side-opening tailgate.

And the panoramic roof all remain.

Towing hook, wheel eyebrow designs, a red tail light cover,

different door handle colors even we see on the option list.

Now, BYD has joined hundreds of other firms

chasing refunds for duties paid under Trump's new import tariffs

for BYD American subsidiaries have now filed a case in the courts

in the US Court of International Trade seeking refunds for tariffs.

The claim attacks the legal base for the levies.

BYD argues that executive orders underpinning tariffs are invalid

and that collecting the duties amounts to an unlawful action by the White House.

The filing also leans on the International Emergency Economic

Powers Act, arguing it does not employ the word tariff or any equivalent term.

And he says Congress holds the power to levy taxes.

Only Congress, not what mood the president is in that day.

BYD's different units in America say that they're suing the Trump administration

because they can't count on a refund without a judgment and judicial relief.

A US Supreme Court decision on the legality of the levies remains pending.

During November's oral arguments, both conservative and liberal justices

expressed skepticism about whether the trade deficit qualifies as an emergency action

and whether Trump was allowed to do that or not.

For BYD, the stakes are actually on shore in America.

The company designs and makes EV buses and trucks in the US

and has paid and continues to pay what they say is significant duties

on materials that it imports to sustain their American operations.

BYD does not sell passenger cars in the US yet.

Now, Cherry Automobile, the executive vice president, Lee Shu Yong,

says the firm has landed on the world's first mass production

application of pure electronic mechanical braking, EMB, in a passenger car.

The technology debuts in the X-seed EX7 launching in sometime Q1 before the end of March.

EMB, electronic mechanical braking, also called brake by wire,

drops the traditional hydraulic link physically between what's under your foot,

the pipeline and the energy being transmitted to the braking commands.

This moves it to electrical signals.

The source describes EMB systems as one of the ultimate solutions for automotive braking.

Cherry expects its system to shorten stopping distances and improve instantaneous safety.

OK, the company and also the vice president, Lee, says Cherry spent three years developing this technology.

The team he adds tackled millisecond response times, precise control and extreme reliability.

Now, let's talk a little bit about Cherry opening pre-orders for the all new QQ3.

If that is indeed how I say it, I need to check with, I don't know,

somebody I know who might be a Chinese speaker because it's an electric hatchback

and it's a bit of a throwback.

It pulled in 27,000 orders in the first three hours of opening.

The car goes officially on pre-sale in early March deliveries at the end of March.

Now, the QQ3 name carries weights in China's budget car history books.

Cherry launched the first QQ3 over 20 years ago.

In 2003, added the QQ6 and the QQMe, the original lineup started at 29,000 yuan.

That's about 4,000 US dollars and it reached more than 1.4 million

sales before they discontinued it.

Cherry has kept all the original design cues.

The all new version wears the round shaped large headlights and tail lights.

The closed front facia, semi-hidden door handles, dual colour side mirrors,

and it has the Q logo on the seat pillow under the skin, an electric motor.

So a single rear electric motor, 58 or 90 kilowatts,

depending on the spec and trim that you go for.

The pack is an LFP, lithium ion phosphate from Goshen and they say

CLTC of between 280 and 401 kilometres on the China cycle.

Haven't got the exact battery capacity on that, but obviously more of a budget car

from a name that will be familiar to many, many people.

But hey, it's still a five door hatchback and it's still it's got

the smooth rounded front, if I would say the latest smart.

So like the smart hashtag three, smart hashtag five design language.

And it appears that when they put it on sale straight away,

there's enough nostalgia in that original cherry series for people to go.

Oh, maybe I have one of them as my first car.

Maybe I'll enter driving one of those.

I fancy one of those for my own driveway.

Geely has registered a pure electric variant of its Galaxy A7.

Now, the Galaxy A7 is a I'd say a midsize sedan.

If you need a Western reference, I would say something like a Volkswagen

Passat wouldn't be a million miles away.

The M.I.I.T. images and specifications show it's going to have a single

electric motor, 160 kilowatts, no sign, as always, in these filings

on the battery pack size or the exact range that will come.

We do know it'll be an LFP pack, lithium ion, phosphates, very familiar

front ends to many modern Chinese saloons and sedans.

So obviously a closed off grill, because it doesn't need too much air for cooling.

The charge port is positioned on the front right hand fender

just above the wheel, which is an interesting placement.

I don't think it really matters, but that's where they put the the charge port.

The changes look measured rather than radical.

This is a pure electric version, of course, adopting the closed front

grill and vertically oriented decorative elements all around the lower fog lamp area,

which likely serves a bit of airflow, probably.

Just to move it around the wheels for some

aero or maybe some airflow in to cool the battery.

The charging port sits on the right hand front fender and at the back,

the full width lights motif returns.

Geely launched the plug-in hybrid version of A7, Galaxy A7 last year.

That version is a 1.5 liter engine and a electric motor and a battery,

which they say will ultimately do 2,100 kilometers of range combined.

This new filing signals intense to extend the A7 line up into the all electric segment.

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Let's talk a little bit about Huawei tweaking what is a very high-end

vehicle. When I say high-end, picture a two-tone, I don't know,

Bentley or a two-tone Rolls-Royce, that kind of thing.

Huawei's updated the Maestro S800.

This is, I mean, it'll be bigger than, let me say, an Audi A8 or

something or a Mercedes-Benz S-Class.

This looks, let's say the long wheel-based version, looks even

longer. This thing's massive and super-luxury.

So updating the EREV version under the skin, dual and triple motor

versions, luxury, super-luxury sedan jointly developed by

Huawei and JAIHC.

Under the HIMA or HEMA brand, it launched in May last year

and it sells for between 700 and a million yuan.

That is 102,000 to 147,000 US dollars equivalent.

It's a Bev or EREV version.

The range extender now delivers a battery pack that is a little

bit smaller. So 63, not 65 kilowatt hours.

Dual motor lists 271 kilometers of all electric range.

The tri-motor lists 315.

So that's interesting. More motors, more range.

Obviously, a battery size change there.

But very, very luxurious vehicle.

So possibly the kind of thing that maybe you're driven in more

than you actually drive? I don't know.

Now, a couple more stories.

Lyoto, Unveiled and all new generation of their flagship L9

SUV on February the 6th, three days ago, and set a

second quarter launch.

The firm built it as an embodied intelligence flagship

SUV. All right.

OK, but this certainly is a large SUV shape.

This to me has, again, it's not a copy in any way, but I was

trying if I can give a Western reference that perhaps you would

find easier in your mind's eye if you're not too familiar

with the Chinese cars.

I think Lucid Gravity on this one, the front, the side

profile, you know, not a copy, but a bit Lucid Gravity.

I think it looks beautiful, this Lyoto L9.

So this special edition's around 80,000 US dollars

equivalent, the CEO, Li Xiang, said the new L9 aims to move

beyond incremental upgrades and creates a generational gap

in user experience.

Lyoto launched the first generation L9 and sold it on

things like comfort, refrigerator, big screen TV, big sofa

in the back.

They called it the best SUV under five million RMB.

The new pitch shifts from cabin toys to intelligence

and understanding you as a driver.

The L9, Livis, the ultimate flagship version, they say,

with three cortex, if you like.

So first one, the number one technology, suspension and

chassis architecture and compute.

The firm said it's the first vehicle priced under 600,000

RMB with an 800 volt fully active suspension system.

It claims more than 10,000 newtons of lifting

force per wheel, operation without an anti-roll bar

and millisecond level response times to have perfect

active control and body posture and handling.

But with loads of comfort.

The Livis version also brings what Lioto calls the world's

first full form, fully by wire chassis.

So steer by wire, four wheel steering and a full

electronic mechanical braking system that only a moment

ago, we were talking about earlier on the podcast.

And so what Jerry claimed was the first one.

Lioto say, oh no, we have one as well.

They also pointed to an an upgraded extended range

battery system.

Battery capacity is expected to be 70 kilowatt

hours on that 250 miles or 400 kilometers of all

electric range, 800 volt architecture and 5C charging.

Now, Canada is next in the news wanting its Chinese

car maker new audiences.

Let's say that since they they welcomed China

back in to actually build Chinese EVs on Canadian

soil and ship them to global markets.

The Prime Minister Mark Carney pitched the plan

three days ago as part of a new auto strategy.

Carney and the industry manager minister Melanie

Jolie, confirming talks on a Canada-China joint

venture assembly line.

The push follows the January deal allowing

49,000 Chinese made EVs that could be Chinese

made Tesla's or Polestar's, etc.

Hasn't to be Chinese brands coming in with the most

favored nation tariff rate of 6.1 percent.

So still tariffs, but well, not the hundred

percent that they were.

And finally, a Beijing court has opened a trial

of a high profile automotive content creator who

is accused of damaging a product's reputation

with a crash test video.

It featured the Xiaomi Su7, the saloon sedan

version, the original Xiaomi and a Zika 007.

Prosecutors in the case have charged the defendant,

identified simply in paperwork as Gao, with damaging

the commercial reputations of those companies.

Prosecutors said Gao organized and filmed a head

on collision between July 22nd and August

the 12th, two years ago, or 18 months ago, I suppose.

The test was a Xiaomi Su7 and a head

on collision test with a Zika 007.

So clearly, firstly, this must be a very high

profile content creator because they can afford to go

out by two brand new expensive EVs and then crash

them head on into each other, a slightly offset crash.

It wasn't just straight on.

It was kind of half overlapping, if you might.

But either way, I'm trying to justify it.

This is a YouTuber or a content creator going out

to buy cars simply to crash them to make

content and obviously to get views and things like that.

Investigators have alleged that the content

creator concealed that the Xiaomi Su7's auxiliary

battery power cable had been disconnected.

They alleged that he used misleading images to describe

the battery damage.

The indictment said that Gao claimed with no verification

that the Xiaomi Su7 emergency call system didn't work.

Gao published a video on the platform Billy Billy

back in August of 2024.

Prosecutors argue it caused significant reputational damage.

The case lands in a wider clampdown in China of regulators

citing similar cases, enforcement actions against

content creators, things like automotive performance

content, they call it.

And so, yeah, who knows the ins and outs and the rights

and the wrongs of it.

But clearly this is an extreme case where someone

is making enough money from their content to actually

go out and crash a couple of cars and the accusations

made can clearly influence buying decisions.

Whatever, whatever the rights and the wrongs of that case

we'll find out in time.

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