Chinese lidar sensor maker Hesai aims to quadruple production to meet rising demand

The Shanghai-based company would expand its capacity to manufacture the light detection and ranging sensors – which employ laser beams to measure distances to objects – to 2 million units in 2025, from about 502,000 units last year, according to David Li Yifan, the founder and CEO. “We can guarantee capacity expansion to 2 million units within a few months,” he said at a media briefing in Shanghai. “Supply chain will not be an issue.

For us, it is just a matter of building more facilities.” Li’s remarks came after Beijing tightened its oversight on driver-assistance systems, or preliminary autonomous driving technology, after a fatal accident involving a Xiaomi EV killed three people last month..