What happened in China On April 16, Volkswagen is scheduled to officially launch the ID. UNYX 08 in China — a mid-to-large SUV that is, by every meaningful measure, the first production vehicle to run on XPeng's AI chips and software stack under a joint architecture developed between the two companies. The car is produced by Volkswagen Anhui, a joint venture that sits at the centre of Volkswagen's explicitly stated 'In China, for China' strategy. The UNYX 08 is not a rebadged XPeng. It is a Volkswagen-branded vehicle built on a jointly developed Combined Electronic Architecture (CEA) that embeds XPeng's AI-enabled chips and software intelligence directly into the platform. It ships with 1,500 TOPS of smart driving compute and a starting price of $33,100 — competitive pricing for a full-size SUV equipped with 800V technology and L2 advanced ADAS. Volkswagen plans the ID. UNYX 08 as the first of…