FILE PHOTO: Men interact with a Baidu AI robot near the company logo at its headquarters in Beijing, China April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Florence Lo
January 26, 2022
BEIJING (Reuters) – Baidu’s electric vehicle arm Jidu Auto said on Wednesday that it has raised nearly $400 million from Baidu and Zhejiang Geely Holding Group in a new funding round.
Jidu, an electric vehicle (EV) venture between China’s search engine company Baidu and Chinese automaker Geely, said in a statement that it would deliver its mass-produced “robot” EVs in 2023.
(Reporting by Yingzhi Yang and Brenda Goh; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)
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