Chinese language electrical car maker Li Auto stated on April 13 that it has no plans in the intervening time to start promoting plug-in hybrid electrical autos (PHEVs) in Uzbekistan, including that the pictures displaying its executives signing agreements with a dealership are pretend. The corporate has reported the case to the police and didn’t present additional particulars, pending the result of the investigation, based on a press release posted on the Chinese language microblogging platform. Pictures circulated on Chinese language social media additionally present a gaggle of unknown folks visiting Li Auto’s manufacturing facility within the japanese Chinese language metropolis of Changzhou and briefly posing for photographers on the gate of the manufacturing facility. Li Auto advised the Chinese language media outlet Caixin in March that it has began hiring employees for its native gross sales and repair groups in Dubai, with plans to start direct gross sales and car supply within the Center East within the fourth quarter of this 12 months. A devoted after-sales service community shall be arrange by June, as particular person sellers have been reselling the corporate’s vehicles within the area. [Li Auto statement, Caixin, in Chinese]