The Electric Car You Can Charge Next to Your Phone

  • Li Xiang starts Chehejia to sell new-energy vehicles in China
  • Company aims to add to $380 million funding in second half

Chehejia founder Li Xiang.

Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
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Li Xiang was earning 10 times more than his parents from part-time jobs when he left school in 1999 to focus on a website before starting Autohome Inc., China’s premier car-buying portal. Now, he plans to not just sell vehicles, but design and build them too.

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