Autonomous Driving Concept Stocks Watch | BIDU-SW (09888.HK) Traded Stronger in the Afternoon; Apollo Go Launches Driverless Shuttle Test Between Hong Kong West Kowloon High Speed Rail Station and Airport Express Kowloon Station

NewTimeSpace News: On August 21, 2026,BIDU-SW(09888.HK) edged higher in the afternoon session. As of 14:14, the stock was quoted at HK$93.10, up 1.03%.

According to Baidu, Apollo Go, the group’s driverless mobility platform, recently supported MTR Corporation and Airport Authority Hong Kong to launch on-road trials of driverless shuttle services connecting Hong Kong West Kowloon High Speed Rail Station and Airport Express Kowloon Station.

AIJIAN Securities stated that retail sales of passenger vehicles across China reached 1.506 million units in July, down 18% year-on-year and 6% month-on-month. Cumulative retail volume for the year stood at 10.207 million units, a 20% year-on-year decline. In July, wholesale deliveries by domestic passenger vehicle manufacturers totalled 2.241 million units, rising 1% year-on-year but falling 5% month-on-year. Cumulative wholesale shipments so far this year hit 14.788 million units, dropping 5% year-on-year. Retail sales of new energy passenger vehicles nationwide came in at 970,000 units in July, slipping 2% year-on-year and 4% month-on-month, with a year-to-date retail volume of 5.675 million units, representing a 12% year-on-year decrease. The retail penetration rate of new energy vehicles in China reached 64.4%.

BIDU-SW (09888.HK) Focuses on the R&D of L4 autonomous driving algorithms and the commercialization of unmanned Robotaxis. Leveraged by the ERNIE foundational model and optimized by the Qianfan compute base, its "Apollo Go" autonomous ride-hailing service has achieved large-scale, normalized commercial operations across multiple core cities in China, with cumulative autonomous test mileage exceeding hundreds of millions of kilometers. Through high-frequency, high-confidence real-world road test data cleansing, the company continues to solidify the most robust data asset and algorithmic moat within the HKEX autonomous driving sector.

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