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Chery Group has formally unveiled its long-term roadmap for global expansion at the Chery International User Summit 2026 in Wuhu, China, setting aggressive targets for localized assembly, next-generation electrified drivetrains, and cross-industry robotics.
At the Chery International User Summit 2026, Zhang Guibing, Executive Vice President of Chery Automobile, stressed that the group’s multi-brand trajectory—spanning Chery, Omoda, Jaecoo, Exeed, and Jetour—is anchored on customer value rather than chasing unchecked sales volume:
“Different brands within the Chery Group serve different customer segments and fulfill different roles. For the Chery brand, our direction remains clear: creating products and technologies that serve families and deliver meaningful value to our customers.”
The vision follows a watershed commercial performance in the first half of 2026, where Chery Group climbed to ninth globally among automotive manufacturers with cumulative worldwide deliveries of 1.36 million vehicles. Underpinning this volume is Chery’s standing as China’s leading passenger vehicle exporter for 23 consecutive years, commanding strong market share across both left-hand-drive (LHD) and right-hand-drive (RHD) territories.
Accelerating Localisation: 70% of Overseas Sales Assembled Locally by 2027
Rather than relying purely on Chinese export hubs, Chery is shifting heavily toward regional manufacturing autonomy.
According to Zhang, locally assembled (CKD) vehicles accounted for 41 percent of the Group’s total overseas footprint in 2025. Chery projects that this figure will surge to 70 percent by 2027.
This localized integration strategy blends advanced tooling with regional supply-chain development:
- Industrial Integration: Establishing localized stamping, body framing, paint lines, and component sourcing across key regional hubs in Southeast Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
- Workforce & Academic Synergy: Partnering with regional universities, technical institutes, and engineering programs to nurture local manufacturing talent.
- R&D Network Expansion: Expanding its international R&D presence from 16 overseas centres to 26 hubs worldwide—with engineering centers slated for Malaysia, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Germany to adapt vehicle software, chassis calibrations, and thermal dynamics to local operating conditions.
Electrification Momentum: NEV Volume Rockets 145%
Chery’s powertrain evolution is accelerating in lockstep with global emission mandates. Driven by a balanced portfolio of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) utilizing the Super Hybrid DHT platform and dedicated battery-electric vehicles (BEVs), group New Energy Vehicle (NEV) sales surged 145 percent year on year between January and September 2026.
Looking toward late-decade commercialization, Chery outlined two major energy ecosystem rollouts slated to commence in 2027:
- Hyper Second Charging (HSC): Next-generation high-rate DC charging architectures engineered to match conventional liquid refueling turnaround times.
- Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Systems: Bidirectional energy storage setups designed to allow Chery electric vehicles to feed stored energy back into municipal power grids or private dwellings during peak demand periods. Initial deployments are targeted for Spain, the United Kingdom, and Thailand.
Beyond Cars: AiMOGA Embodied AI and the MOBO Companion Robot
Reinforcing its transition from a conventional carmaker to a diversified smart-mobility tech enterprise, the summit also hosted the public debut of MOBO, a home companion humanoid robot developed by Chery’s robotics division, AiMOGA.
Walking across the main stage alongside young summit participants, the bipedal robot showcased the automotive group’s push into embodied artificial intelligence. Chery confirmed that AiMOGA’s robotic hardware and machine-vision stacks are being developed for applications extending beyond personal companionship into smart healthcare, industrial factory automation, intelligent public transit concierge services, and logistics support.
Operating across more than 130 countries with a cumulative user base exceeding 7.4 million owners, Chery Group’s multi-pronged strategy—combining regional manufacturing, high-density R&D, and embodied AI—signals an automotive giant actively preparing for the software-defined, post-combustion era.
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