Chery New Energy

Chery New Energy Vehicle Technology Co., Ltd.
Company type	Subsidiary
Founded	April 2010; 14 years ago
Area served	China
Products	Automobiles
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	奇瑞新能源汽车技术有限公司
Hanyu Pinyin	Qíruì Xīn Néngyuán Qìchē Jìshù Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī
Website	cheryev.cn

Chery New Energy (Chinese: 奇瑞新能源; pinyin: Qíruì Xīn Néngyuán) is a subsidiary of Chery established in April 2010 to produce and market electric vehicles.^[1]

History

In April 2010, the Chinese corporation Chery Automobile decided to enter the then niche electric car industry and established the Chery New Energy division focused on producing vehicles with such a drive.^[2] In September of the same year, the first product of the subsidiary was launched in the form of the Chery QQ3EV, an electric variant of the QQ3,^[3] which remained the only product of the division until the end of the second decade of the 21st century. In 2014, the QQ3EV replaced the more modern eQ based on the next generation of the city hatchback,^[4] and only 3 years later the range was expanded with other products. First, it was the electric equivalent of Tiggo 3x, the crossover Tiggo 3xe,^[5] and with it - also based on the existing sedan model Arrizo 5e.^[6] In the same year, Chery New Energy presented the first model developed from scratch without a combustion engine counterpart in the form of a small hatchback eQ1.^[7]

In 2019, the latest product to be added was an electric-only variant of the existing Chery model in the form of the crossover Tiggo e.^[8] At the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, Chery New Energy began expanding its portfolio with designs built from the ground up with electric drive in mind, starting with the large crossover eQ5.^[9] In August 2021, the QQ Ice Cream microcar was introduced in response to the popularity of the Wuling Hongguang Mini EV.^[10]