Youxia Motors cooperates with IDG and PRODRIVE to establish an overseas joint R&D center

Today, Youxia Motors unveiled the development progress of its European R&D center in London. Currently, Youxia has established the Youxia Design Center and the London High-Performance Technology R&D Center. Next, it will establish R&D centers for chassis platforms, safety and testing, and autonomous driving.

At the same time, Youxia Automobile signed a long-term strategic cooperation agreement with automotive design company IDG and independent racing and power technology research and development company Prodrive to jointly provide services for the industrial design of Youxia's subsequent generations of products and the research and development of electric high-performance systems.

(Left: David Richards, Chairman of Prodrive; Right: Xia Li, CEO of Youxia)

It is understood that Prodrive was founded in 1975 and has engineering capabilities such as automotive power structure and chassis systems. It has built high-performance automotive products for many brands such as Ford and Subaru. It is currently the only racing car manufacturing partner of Aston Martin. The cooperation with Youxia will create the highest performance version of the mass-produced Youxia X. The tuning technology and electric performance system will be used in the mass-produced version, which can achieve an acceleration of 3 seconds per 100 kilometers and a comprehensive endurance of 650km. In addition, a joint R&D center will be established with Youxia.

In addition, Youxia has reached a cooperation with IDG Automotive Design, which was founded by Giorgetto Giugiaro in 1967 and currently mainly serves Volkswagen and Audi. The cooperation with Youxia mainly focuses on the refinement of the overall brand family design gene, human engineering interaction design and engineering implementation technology. Youxia said that the research and development and design of two new models have been started, and IDG will participate in the design of the new generation of models.

(Left: Xia Li, CEO of Youxia; Right: Joerg Astalosch, CEO of IDG)

It is reported that Youxia Automobile started the construction of Huzhou Super Factory in October last year and completed the B round of financing of 5 billion in April this year. Next, the mass production version of Youxia X will be released in the fourth quarter and will be delivered as early as 2019.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.