Chery presented Yaoguang 2035 at its Global Innovation Conference in Wuhu, China, on Oct. 20, outlining a long-term effort to grow beyond vehicle manufacturing. The strategy aims to apply the company’s capabilities in engineering, electrification and software across areas including autonomous transport, electric aircraft, energy management, agriculture and robotics. Chery describes the plan as resting on five pillars, among them lifecycle electrification, coordinated intelligence, global brand development and an open technology ecosystem.
A central element is CheryMind, an AI model designed for physical-world and engineering applications. Chery says it has been trained on company and R&D information, 25 million driving segments and five million robot-motion records, and is already used in research, production and quality control. The company also introduced its Ziwei chip family: the C100 computing chip is intended for in-vehicle AI, with a planned start of implementation in 2027, while the S1500 power semiconductor is rated for up to 1,500 volts and 1,450 amps.
Chery outlined plans for factory-designed robotaxis, targeting 100,000 operating globally by 2030. Its two announced eVTOL aircraft include the two-seat Q212, with a claimed top speed of 120 km/h, and the five-seat J506, rated at up to 350 km/h and more than 1,000 km of range. These are company-announced targets and specifications, not confirmation of commercial availability.
Energy projects include a Chery-CATL charging system rated at up to 1.44 MW, with a claimed 500 km of range added in five minutes, and solid-state battery cells reported at 400 Wh/kg. Chery plans a pilot line for the batteries in 2027 and aims to deploy 20,000 V2G stations worldwide by 2029, beginning with four Chinese cities.