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JuneYao Auto

Chinese car company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ134581645
Source-derived summary

JuneYao Auto (Chinese: 吉祥汽车; pinyin: Jíxiáng Qìchē), sometimes abbreviated to JY Auto, is a Chinese automotive manufacturer. Founded in 2023, JY Auto is headquartered in Shanghai, and manufactures vehicles in Putian, Fujian.

The company was established by Juneyao Group, following its acquisition of Yudo Auto. The group, founded in 1991, is better known for its airline, Juneyao Air.

Models

The Yudo Yuntu continues under the Yudo Auto name and is the sole model that continues under JuneYao ownership.

The first JuneYao branded model is the JY Air launched in 2024 in Thailand and in China from Spring 2025. The 4.55m long car features an aerodynamic design with a drag coefficient of 0.23 Cd.

Two version of the Air are produced; a 51.2 kWh battery with a 147 kW (200 PS; 197 bhp)/ 250 Nm motor powering the rear wheels and can be charged with 70 kW DC. The top level Air has a large 64.1 kWh battery pack a slightly higher output motor 159 kW (216 PS; 213 bhp) and faster 136 kW DC charging.

Operations

Manufacturing for JY Auto takes place in Putian, Fujian, at the former Yudo Auto plant.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “JuneYao Auto” is chinese car company. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through JuneYao, Auto and Chinese, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023, 1991, 2024, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, JuneYao, Auto and Chinese is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “chinese car company” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q134581645. The first chronological checks are 2023, 1991, 2024 and 2025.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “JuneYao Auto”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow JuneYao Auto primary sources, JuneYao Auto archive and JuneYao research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “JuneYao Auto”?
  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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This entry incorporates text from JuneYao Auto” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.