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We shouldn’t expect anything resembling a car from Apple in the next few years due to the company’s infamous slow-and-steady R&D, but another Big Tech company, Huawei, is now reportedly aiming for its own EV release by the end of 2021, as Reuters reports.
Huawei is in talks with the rather large Chinese automakers Changan and BAIC to make cars this year, per Reuters:
That would be Stellantis-owned Jeep as of January 2021.
Stellantis is a newly formed multinational automobile manufacturer which is the result of a merger of French automaker Groupe PSA and Italian-owned Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles.
The five-pointed Red Star has long been an international symbol of communism and/or socialism. It is banned as a political symbol in some former Warsaw Pact countries because it is said to represent a totalitarian political ideology.
But Jeep as a brand and a vehicle has a long connection to China that began in 1983 with the first-ever Sino-US joint automobile manufacturing agreement between Chrysler and BAIC the Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Corp. The Jeep Cherokee was the first foreign automobile mass-produced in China after it opened itself to Western investment in 1979. But even before that, another Chinese-made SUV bearing the “Jeep” name had been manufactured there since 1966. Modeled after a Soviet “Jeep,” it was a favorite r