On June 5, 2025, Chang'an Deepal Automobile officially announced the push of DEEPAL OS 3.0 system update for G318 model, with "smart cockpit visual renewal and interaction optimization" as the core, bringing multiple functional upgrades and experience improvements.
As the penetration rate of China's electric vehicle market exceeds 50% and further expands globally, more and more electric vehicle maintenance work will follow, and hub motor technology has become the mainstream configuration of brands such as Yadea and BYD. Unlike traditional gearboxes, hub motor gearboxes need to cope with extreme temperature differences of -30℃ to 150℃, rain erosion and high-frequency start-stop impact, which puts higher requirements on grease. This article will combine the latest electric vehicle industry data and vehicle model cases to analyze some guidelines for gear grease selection.
Seal 06EV under BYD Ocean Network will be officially launched at the 2025 Chongqing Auto Show which will open on June 7. The car is positioned as a pure electric mid-size car, adopting a rear-wheel drive architecture + Yunnian-C, and will reshape the 150,000-level pure electric market. Reservations have been opened before, and the official said that the price range of the car is 120,000-150,000 yuan.
On May 30, 2025, Zhengzhou Nissan in China officially launched the Z9 GE PHEV electric hybrid pickup truck through a "Dragon Boat Festival Wonderful Tour" MR press conference that combines national trend culture and technology show. The new car is positioned as a "new generation of intelligent electric hybrid" and provides 7 configurations with two pure electric endurance versions of 60km/135km, with an official guide price of 156,900-219,900 yuan. This plug-in hybrid pickup truck built on the Nissan Frontier Pro platform impacts traditional market cognition with the concept of "de-tooling" and attempts to break policy restrictions and consumer prejudices through new energy technologies.
Recently, a group of road test spy photos of the BMW electric version of the M3 prototype were exposed on the Internet, attracting widespread attention from car enthusiasts and industry insiders. This pure electric performance car built on BMW's new Neue Klasse platform marks an important milestone in the transformation of BMW's M Power series to electrification. It is estimated that it will be named iM3 after it goes on the market.
On June 4, 2025, according to the latest sales data, Ford's electric vehicle sales in the US market in May fell 25% year-on-year, of which the flagship electric pickup F-150 Lightning sales plummeted 42%, triggering the industry to re-examine the electrification transformation of traditional automakers.
On June 3, GAC AION officially released the 2025 AION Y Plus through the live broadcast room of Chinese Internet celebrity Luo Yonghao "Make Friends". The new car has a total of 4 configuration models, with an official guide price of 99,800-123,800 yuan, and simultaneously launched six car purchase rights, including a replacement subsidy of up to 26,000 yuan, three-electric lifetime warranty, etc.
With the rapid development of electric vehicles in China, they have gradually occupied most of the world's electric vehicle market. In recent years, some high-end luxury electric vehicles have also been launched accordingly, such as BYD's Yangwang brand, NIO, Xiaomi, Porsche and Huawei Harmony's related MAEXTRO S800. However, the current luxury new energy vehicle brands generally prefer extended-range electric vehicles (REEV) rather than plug-in hybrids (PHEV). Next, we will analyze from multiple aspects why the current luxury electric vehicles have gradually turned from plug-in hybrids to range extender models.
On June 3, NIO President Qin Lihong confirmed at the Shanghai Auto Show that its third brand Firefly (Firefly) will launch a right-hand drive model to enter the UK market before October 2025. This is a key breakthrough for NIO in the right-hand drive market after seven European countries including Austria and Hungary, marking the completion of its European layout of the "Firefly-Alps-NIO" three-brand matrix. Faced with the EU's 31% tariff barrier for electric vehicles, Firefly entered the market with a starting price of 30,000 euros (about 230,000 yuan), which is 50% lower than the threshold of NIO models in the German market.
On June 3, 2025, BMW officially confirmed that the new generation X5 codenamed G65 (fuel version) and G95 (pure electric version) will be developed simultaneously, and is expected to be launched in stages from 2026 to 2028. The new car is based on the upgraded architecture of the CLAR platform, and for the first time realizes the parallel layout of high-performance hybrid and pure electric technologies.
