CALB Group Co., Ltd.

Local production allows Chinese automakers to bypass these barriers entirely.

Battery giants such as CATL, CALB, and Eve, along with Gotion, have followed OEMs into Europe and Latin America, embedding Chinese supply chains inside Western industrial ecosystems.

Chinese automakers benefit from vertically integrated battery production, lower component costs, and faster engineering cycles.

And when these advantages are transplanted into Europe or Mexico, they create a competitive shock for the Western original equipment manufacturers.

Now, Li Auto developed the cells.

Sunwoda and CALB manufacture them, then Li Auto build them into battery packs.

Charging time and maximum charging power is all still to be confirmed, but we know it's gonna be really high.

Inside, what have we got? Right, big panoramic front display.

Now, it's no secret that India has been trying hard to move up the value chain in EV batteries.

So a year ago, we covered Ashok Leyland's rupees 5,000 crore deal with China's CALB, one of the world's largest battery cell makers.

The long-term goal was to eventually build the cells within the batteries themselves.

Similarly, Amara Raja had struck a deal with another Chinese company, Gotion, and Exile with SVOLT.

This is Chinese mercantilism running wild in the city that calls itself China's new energy capital.

By its own government's count, Changzhou makes one fifth of China's energy storage batteries and two of China's largest battery makers, C-A-L-B and S-V-O-L-T are headquartered there.

The first of them carved out of the state aerospace conglomerate and bought into the city by the municipal government itself.

The subsidies don't come as a check to enter venue.

It's about 150 horsepower.

That's what these cars are designed to do, really, isn't it? C-A-L-B supplies the battery, so it's good stuff.

Moving from the Pro to the Max brings a larger battery and more motor power.

The top ultra version adds level two assisted driving with navigation functions on highways and urban roads.

But more importantly, let's look at the actual size of the battery, and we can work out some efficiency from that.

The EREV version comes with a sixty-three point three kilowatt hour pack from CALB.

Now, you might argue with a pack that big, would you ever even, even turn on the engine? Has a combined range of sixteen hundred kilometers, and that's the big number which all these EREV sellers go on.

Look how, look how far you can drive on a single charge and tank of fuel.