Wei Xiaoli

Wei Xiaoli (蔚小理) is the shorthand Chinese nickname for the trio of prominent EV startups NIO (蔚来), XPeng (小鹏), and Li Auto (理想) . The term emerged during the early years of China's new-energy vehicle boom when these three companies were often discussed as a group; a 2019 article recalls them being mocked as the "three fools of the new forces" (新势力三傻) during a brutal capital winter that saw NIO's Li Bin dubbed "the most miserable person of 2019" . By 2024, the three were still jostling for top-tier positioning in intelligent driving, though Huawei's AITO brand had begun outselling them — its Wenjie line overtook Li Auto in quarterly sales after capturing the monthly sales crown for three straight months . Elsewhere's corpus does not contain a dedicated profile of Wei Xiaoli as a formal alliance or entity beyond this colloquial grouping.