JAC

JAC

JAC Motors (Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group)
🇨🇳 China

Hefei-based Chinese manufacturer founded in 1964, best known at home for light trucks, vans and MPVs and abroad for pickups and budget SUVs sold across Latin America and the Middle East. JAC holds a quarter of the Volkswagen Anhui joint venture and builds the ultra-luxury Maextro models with Huawei.

News about JAC

China says its carmakers develop cars too fast
China says its carmakers develop cars too fast

MIIT has launched a year-long quality campaign aimed at the trade-off behind China's 18 to 24 month development cycles, saying aggressive new technology is reaching production cars without enough testing. Inspectors have already visited XPeng, GAC Aion, NIO, Chery and JAC plants and pulled vehicles and battery packs for independent testing.

4 Sept 2026
Maextro V800: Huawei and JAC's luxury brand reveals a full-size minivan
Maextro V800: Huawei and JAC's luxury brand reveals a full-size minivan

The ultra-luxury Maextro brand has shown the first official images of the V800, its second model and first minivan. A plug-in hybrid with 530 hp, AWD, a 63.2 kWh battery and 275 km WLTC electric range, in a 2+2+3 layout with Huawei electronics. Premiere imminent; pricing not yet set.

8 Jun 2026

Explainers

China's Car Brands: Explained
China's Car Brands: Explained

China's car market runs on a handful of giant groups, each fielding a stack of brands. Here is who owns what - the parent companies, the sub-brands, the Huawei alliance, and why the chart keeps changing.
Joint-venture car brands in China
Joint-venture car brands in China

The Volkswagens sold in China are built by two companies, and one of them is Chinese. That arrangement started in 1983 as a condition of entry, and it has since produced badges that exist nowhere else: Jetta, Wuling, and AUDI in block capitals with no rings. Who holds which half, which brands the ventures invented for themselves, and which of the old partnerships have quietly ended.
About

JAC Motors, formally Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group, was founded in Hefei in 1964 and built its business on commercial vehicles rather than passenger cars. Light and medium trucks, vans and the Refine range of MPVs still account for much of its domestic volume, and the company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2001.

Its passenger-car and export business grew later. JAC’s T-series pickups and its SUVs sell across Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, in several markets through local assembly, and the Yiwei sub-brand covers small electric cars at the cheap end of the Chinese market. The Sehol brand, created out of the earlier partnership with Volkswagen, is being wound down.

What makes JAC unusual is how much of its output carries someone else’s badge. Volkswagen took 75 percent of the former JAC Volkswagen venture in May 2020 and renamed it Volkswagen Anhui, leaving JAC with a quarter; Volkswagen Group separately bought half of JAC’s parent holding company the same year. JAC also builds the Maextro S800 and V800 under Huawei’s HIMA alliance, where Huawei supplies the electronics and driver-assistance stack and JAC handles engineering and manufacturing. Until December 2023 it was also the contract manufacturer for NIO’s first generation of cars.

Global website jac.com.cn
Frequently asked questions
Who owns JAC?
JAC is a publicly traded company.
What country are JAC cars from?
JAC is a Chinese brand, headquartered in Hefei.
When was JAC founded?
JAC was founded in 1964.
What kind of cars does JAC make?
JAC makes trucks, vans, MPVs, SUVs, pickups and EVs.
Who owns JAC Motors?
JAC is listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange as 600418. Its controlling shareholder is the holding company JAG, which sits under the Anhui provincial government; Volkswagen Group bought a 50 percent stake in that holding company in 2020. So JAC is a publicly traded company under state-linked control, with a German carmaker on the other half of its parent.
Does JAC build cars for other brands?
Yes, and it is a large part of what the company does. JAC manufactures the Maextro models developed with Huawei, and it holds 25 percent of Volkswagen Anhui, which builds Volkswagen's China-designed electric models. It also contract-built NIO's early cars in Hefei until that arrangement ended in December 2023.
What kind of vehicles does JAC make under its own badge?
Commercial vehicles are the core: light and medium trucks, vans and the Refine line of MPVs and passenger vans. Alongside those it sells SUVs and the T-series pickups, which are its main export products, and entry-level electric cars under the Yiwei sub-brand.
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