In the first half of this year, NIO proactively contacted a leading domestic dealer group and conducted some "experiments" on opening up the dealership model for its subsidiary brand, Alps.
XPeng Motors recently reduced the number of nationwide sales regions. They are also gradually phasing out underperforming directly operated stores and expanding the scale of dealership stores.
The market regulator in central China's Xi'an city has launched an investigation into a local Mercedes-Benz 4S dealership after a video of a buyer complaining about her newly bought car's oil leak problems went viral on social media.