Coronavirus: April deliveries of smart EVs plunge at Nio, Li Auto and Xpeng as Shanghai’s lockdown strains Tesla rivals’ supply chain to breaking point


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Deliveries of smart electric cars (EVs) halved in April among China’s three biggest Tesla challengers, as the month-long lockdown in Shanghai and nearby cities in the Yangtze River Delta disrupted supply chains and stopped production. Nio’s April deliveries declined by 49.2 per cent to a six-month low of 5,074 vehicles, after it halted its assembly in the Anhui provincial capital of Hefei for five days, as Covid-19 quarantines in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Jilin disrupted its supply chain. Li Auto in Beijing handed 4,167 EVs last month to buyers, 62.3 per cent fewer than in March. Customers received 9,002 electric cars...