NIO's 20 Billion Yuan Bet: Why It Refuses Range Extenders
China's H1 2026 passenger vehicle domestic sales fell 24.3% YoY, with NEVs also declining. NIO firmly rejected range-extender technology while Xiaomi's first EREV model secured 70,000 orders in 72 hours. Meanwhile, the industry's talent mismatch intensified, with ADAS engineer supply-demand ratio at just 0.38.
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