According to Electric-Vehicles.com, Azera will enter the U.S. market in 2025 and deploy its first exchange station in that market as soon as November this year.
Sources close to the situation said Azera plans to deploy a switching station in San Jose in November. The purpose is for testing. Currently, Azera ES8 models are the first to enter San Jose for road testing, but they are not NAD-enabled.
The report also says that Azera is already preparing for the U.S. market, having posted job openings in their U.S. showroom last month. Azera already has R&D centers in the U.S., with a more than 187,000-square-foot (17,400 square meters) autonomous driving center in San Jose, the heart of Silicon Valley. Earlier this year, Azera leased a new 211,500 square foot building to support R&D, testing, assembly and operations through 2032.
The report also mentions that Azera CEO Li Bin visited the U.S. headquarters, where the self-driving R&D center is located, on Saturday local time, and that images shared by employees show Li Bin’s visit.
For this reason Finance.com Auto contacted the person in charge of Azera, who said, “After entering the Norwegian market, Azera’s products and full system services will officially land in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark in 2022; and in 2025, it will enter more than 25 countries and regions.”
In fact, at NIO Day 2021, Azera officially said that it plans to enter more than 25 countries and regions by 2025, including the United States, Australia, France and Japan.
