Wuhu

And I always think this about motor shows.

And maybe, you know, talking about the Chinese, maybe they've done a smart thing because currently happening is this sort of giant cherry symposium in Wuhu in their hometown.

And they've just done the Emoda X concept.

Right.

You can buy these cars in a lot of countries already.

Jetour took us into the hills outside Wuhu in China.

There was deep mud, rutted tracks, creek crossings, and loose boulders I honestly thought would stop us.

And, well, at one point I did get kind of stuck, but then I was able to manage to get my way out of it by reversing and then just flooring the accelerator.

Just a great design.

The front is just such a good design.

So yeah, I'm here in Wuhu.

W-U-H-U, Wuhu.

I heard fellow practitioners say that only about 250 attendees were from Hefei.

Others had traveled from Wuhu City or had followed Master from other regions to attend the lectures.

And on the first day of the lecture series, Master saw the attendance was relatively small and expressed regret.

He seemed to say something to this effect, Once you pass this village, there won't be another inn, meaning that if one missed this opportunity, it might never come again.

So that brings us to CHERRY, not the last manufacturer we'll look at today but arguably the one with the boldest claim so far.

In November 2024 the company announced it had already got a gigawatt hour level all solid state battery production line under development in Wuhu in the Anhui province of China.

Then in January 2025 the first batch of engineering samples of ASSBs rolled off their production lines with a real world cell level energy density of about 300 watt hours per kilogram.

And now they've just unveiled this latest prototype with an astonishing 600 watt hours per kilogram of gravimetric energy density which according to the fevered reporting in the Chinese press makes it good for more than 800 miles or 1300 kilometers of real world range.

But China is so different.

You know, we went to Shanghai at a place called Wuhu, which is like four hours.

Wuhu.

Yeah, it was a really, really interesting trip.

But it was in and out, really.

And this was like...

The event they held was in their hometown of Wuhu, but they've got an area which looks like Europe.

So it was incredible, all these old European-looking buildings.

And they were doing a catwalk with these amazing models and a whole lot of other things because La Paz is all about elegance and passion.

Our bonus was getting the Jungle Trailblazer in WooHoo, which was not part of the plan, and then that ended up being awesome, so...

And you know what, to be honest with you, we have been to Dreamland in Wuhu a few days prior.

And the Qing Dynasty Dark Ride there was closed.

I was bummed for a while.

Because there's a Qing Dynasty Dark Ride at the Dreamland in Xiamen that we did last year, 2025.

And so I was like, I was looking forward so much to riding that again.

And then I went and Wuhu was closed.

And there was a Qing Dynasty dark ride here.

Volkswagen says this supports software updates across the car and faster development.

Cherry Green Energy and state grid Inui Mingsheng have opened a new vehicle-to-grid site in Wuhu.

Compatible cars can sell stored electricity back to the grid when demand is high.

Cherry estimates that owners could earn about US$400 a year based on current tariffs.