HONG KONG STARTUP AIMS TO BEAT TESLA ON EV
June 1st, 2017
A Taiwan-listed, Hong Kong-based electric vehicle startup - Thunder Power – today (Friday) proclaimed an ambitious goal for the future – to make the most desirable EV in China.
“An obvious difference between us and Tesla is we have the key technologies before actually investing in manufacturing,” Wellen Sham, Thunder Power CEO, told wardsauto at a launch event in Shanghai.
Thunder Power has filed more than 350 patent applications in the US and China, he said, and already had 70 of them granted. Among them is a lightweight modular chassis system, which ...
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