Overview

• JD says the jointly developed "national good car" will debut during its 11.11 festival, with coverage citing a November 9 release and exclusive sales on JD’s platform.
• JD states it will not manufacture the vehicle, focusing on user insights, data modeling and sales, while GAC handles production and CATL’s service arm supplies battery swap systems.
• CATL and JD signed a broad strategic agreement covering official swap‑channel direct sales, battery after‑market services through JD Auto Care, and logistics electrification with light‑storage‑charge‑swap solutions.
• Changan Auto also entered a strategic pact with JD to explore intelligent logistics vehicles and co‑develop new energy autonomous models.
• At the WICV conference in Beijing, MIIT officials and automaker leaders called for clearer L3 responsibility boundaries, unified car‑road‑cloud standards and breakthroughs in E/E architectures and high‑compute chips, as China leads global EV sales with a rapidly expanded charging network.