Tesla

Tesla's revenue in China rose 102.9 percent year-on-year to $1.4 billion in the second quarter of this year, keeping China as its second-largest market after the United States, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Tesla announced on Weibo on Saturday that the purple Model 3 and Model X, which appear in Tencent's hit gaming title Game for Peace, have arrived in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Suzhou, and Xi'an, and can be visited by anyone interested.

The Tesla Model 3 and Model X will start appearing in Tencent's hit game title Game for Peace (or Peace Elite) tomorrow, the game's developers team said on Weibo today.

According to the latest new energy vehicle catalog released by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), 332 models, including two models produced by Tesla (Shanghai), have been included in the catalog.

Tesla's several price cuts in China had caused a lot of dissatisfaction among its car owners. Now, Chinese e-commerce platform Pinduoduo is helping it to further reduce its prices.

After the completion of the Shanghai Gigafactory, Tesla is becoming more and more localized in its marketing.

A total of 14,976 China-made Model 3s were registered in China in June, an increase of 32 percent over the same period of last year, according to autoinfo.org.cn. 

On June 27, Nio opened a NIO Space at Deyang Wanda Plaza, which is Nio's 127th offline store.

In a Chinese article today describing its Autopilot traffic light recognition capabilities, Tesla misquoted a video from its Chinese competitor XPeng that introduces similar capabilities.

Starting this month, Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), China's largest automotive lithium-ion battery maker, will supply power batteries for Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory, the Beijing News quoted CATL sources as saying.