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Electric Vehicles

Mobility

Japan

"There is no time to rest," given the lead time for phase out of gasoline-powered cars.

Japanese automotive parts makers scramble to prepare for EV shift | KrASIA

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Japanese automotive parts makers scramble to prepare for EV shift

Spotlighting Asia&#039;s next wave of innovations.

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Nikkei Asia

Retail

Japanese consumers—known for their high standards—are lining up for hours to get their hands on Vivaia’s eco-friendly shoes. Why?

The secret behind Vivaia’s success in Japan’s footwear market | KrASIA

The secret behind Vivaia’s success in Japan’s footwear market

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network. Since 2010, 36Kr has been providing high-quality content around China’s innovation and new economy trends. With the traffic and network it has built, 36Kr has developed a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities of the technology landscape in China.

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Europe

India

With lithium prices dropping and competition growing, automakers are adjusting to slower growth in the electric vehicle market worldwide.

EV market faces slower growth as global competition intensifies | KrASIA

EV market faces slower growth as global competition intensifies

KrASIA | Electric Vehicles Archives

Bringing together the latest business insights and trends of China's tech ecosystem.

China Tech

Tencent Holdings Limited is a Chinese multinational investment holding conglomerate whose subsidiaries specialize in various Internet-related services and products, entertainment, artificial intelligence and technology both in China and globally.

Tencent

Venture capital is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth.

Venture Capital

The country's electric battery recharging or swapping sector has been drawing venture capital recently.

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent buys into battery-recharging facility operator Xiaolvren | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent buys into battery-recharging facility operator Xiaolvren

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Song Jingli

OYO Rooms, commonly known as OYO, is India's largest hospitality company, consisting mainly of budget hotels. It was founded in 2013 by Ritesh Agarwal and has since grown to over 12,000 hotels in 337 cities in India, Malaysia, UAE, Nepal, China and Indonesia.

SoftBank Group Corp. is a holding company that engages in the management of its group companies which provides information technology and telecommunication services. It operates through the following segments: Mobile Communications, Sprint, Fixed-line Telecommunications, Internet, and Others. 

Softbank

Swiggy

Zomato

E-commerce is the activity of buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. 

E-Commerce

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. The education industry is fast-reforming nowadays. 

Education

Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems. 

Enterprise Services

Fintech is the new applications, processes, products, or business models in the financial services industry, composed of one or more complementary financial services and provided as an end-to-end process via the internet.

Fintech

The total value of all known unicorns based in India is USD 73.2 billion, while the value of unicorns founded overseas by Indians sums up to USD 99.6  billion.

Indian entrepreneurs set up a total of 61 unicorns globally | KrASIA

Indian entrepreneurs set up a total of 61 unicorns globally

I cover Indian tech, startup, venture capital ecosystems for KrASIA.

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Moulishree Srivastava

Promotional image of a Nio Power station.

NIO (Chinese: 蔚来; pinyin: Wèilái) is a Chinese automobile manufacturer headquartered in Shanghai, specializing in designing and developing electric autonomous vehicles. The company is also involved in the FIA Formula E Championship, the first single-seater, all-electric racing series.

Electric vehicle

Nio's premium electric vehicles are catching on with Chinese drivers, as the company's losses narrow.

Chinese Tesla challenger reports record Q2 as vehicle deliveries peak | KrASIA

Chinese Tesla challenger reports record Q2 as vehicle deliveries peak

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AJ Cortese

The automotive aftermarket is the secondary market of the automotive industry, concerned with the manufacturing, remanufacturing, distribution, retailing, and installation of all vehicle parts, chemicals, equipment, and accessories, after the sale of the automobile by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to the consumer. 

Automotive Aftermarket

Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. 

Transportation

li auto

Tesla

An icon in China's entrepreneurship circles, Li Xiang now aims to stake his claim in the electric vehicle industry.

Meet 'China's Elon Musk' Li Xiang, founder of recently US-listed EV maker Li Auto | KrASIA

Meet &#8216;China&#8217;s Elon Musk&#8217; Li Xiang, founder of recently US-listed EV maker Li Auto

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Lin Lingyi

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet and technology. 

Alibaba

Visual Stories

China's EV startups face an intense competition between each other and traditional automakers, while Tesla's entrance has upped the standard.

TECH PANO | Capital-fueled "Teslas" of China are yet to own the roads | KrASIA

TECH PANO | Capital-fueled &#8220;Teslas&#8221; of China are yet to own the roads

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Julianna Wu

In May, another Li One caught fire in Changsha, when a car paint protective pad, that was stuck to the exhaust pipe, ignited.

CHINA BRIEF | Li One vehicle catches fire on the road, two hospitalized | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Li One vehicle catches fire on the road, two hospitalized

CATL

Mercedes

The German luxury car maker plans to launch its electric luxury sedan next year.

Mercedes-Benz partners with CATL to supply batteries for electric models | KrASIA

Mercedes-Benz partners with CATL to supply batteries for electric models

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Gozde Celik

The Hong Kong-listed company plans to re-brand to Evergrande Auto, in a bid to focus on EV manufacturing.

Chinese real-estate giant Evergrande steps up EV ambitions | KrASIA

Chinese real-estate giant Evergrande steps up EV ambitions

Wency Chen is a reporter KrASIA based in Beijing, covering tech innovations in&amp;beyond the Greater China Area. Previously, she studied at Columbia Journalism School and reported on art exhibits, New York public school systems, LGBTQ+ rights, and Asian immigrants. She is also an enthusiastic reader, a diehard fan of indie rock and spicy hot pot, as well as a to-be filmmaker (Let’s see). Follow her on Twitter: @ChenWQ45 Tips go to: wency@kr-asia.com

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Wency Chen

Aulton allows electric vehicle owners to change their out-of-power batteries for full-capacity ones in three minutes.