I don’t know since when, some netizens have been saying that Lifan is OEMed by Lifan, which also makes the former very unhappy. Tang Jing, president of Lifan's first product line, once again issued an article to refute the rumors, targeting the untrue statement circulating on the Internet that "Ideal is OEMed by Lifan".He directly showed the hard-core evidence - the vehicle's tail label and certificate of conformity, emphasizing that starting from the first Ideal ONE, every Ideal car has been produced in a factory built by Ideal, and there is no OEM situation.
He suggested that consumers look at the logo on the rear of the vehicle to determine the real manufacturer of the vehicle.
Before this, Tang Jing had emphasized that from the first day of listing, Ideal has never used OEM.
According to media reports, some netizens have misunderstandings about the early development history of Li Auto. In fact, the mass-produced models of Ideal ONE are all produced at the Changzhou factory, and starting from 2020, the Shunyi factory in Beijing and the Liangjiang factory in Chongqing have also been put into production.
Some netizens confuse the OEM trial production in the enterprise qualification acquisition stage with the self-built production system in the mass production stage, which has led to the continued spread of the misunderstanding "Lifan OEM".