Audi

Audi is a German automaker headquartered in Ingolstadt with a 117-year history, known for exacting product-quality standards and demanding supplier-capability requirements that have historically made its global supply chain difficult for non-established vendors to enter . In the Chinese EV landscape, it has been positioned as emblematic of the incumbent luxury-car establishment that newer domestic players aim to displace—Xiang Li of Li Auto cited Audi's trillion-scale-revenue peers as precisely the kind of legacy strength that "still can't stop our development" . More recently, Audi has begun deepening ties with Chinese automotive-tech suppliers: it awarded air-suspension supplier KH Automotive Technologies (孔辉科技) an A-level rating and formal program placement for two top-tier global electric SUVs after an 18-month development cycle, marking the first time Audi's engineering team had evaluated a Chinese-made air spring . The company also maintains technology partnerships in autonomous driving, including with Horizon Robotics .