JETOUR Global Technology Experience Day 2026: Four Days From Wuhu to the Mountains of Moganshan
21/10/2026
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Start Your Fuel Journal →Four days, two provinces, hundreds of kilometres by coach and the best bits off-road. JETOUR invited media from around the world to China to show what it means by "future travel". I was there. Here is what we saw, what we drove and what is worth remembering when these cars start showing up outside China.
Table of Contents
- 1. At a glance
- 2. Who JETOUR is, in two paragraphs
- 3. Day 1, October 20: Wuhu, the Chery R&D Center and a party on the Yangtze
- 4. Day 2, October 21: off-road treasure hunt in Moganshan
- 5. The G700 Ark Edition: an SUV that drives into a lake
- 6. Day 3, October 22: Xiazhu Lake and the crested ibis
- 7. Day 4, October 23: the Chery Group's big day
- 8. What I take home
At a glance
- What: 2026 JETOUR Global Technology Experience Day, themed "Future Travel Starts Now".
- When and where: October 20–23, 2026, in Wuhu (Anhui Province), Moganshan and Xiazhu Lake (Zhejiang Province).
- Who was there: media, content creators and JETOUR owners from many countries. The opening conference alone gathered more than 2,000 guests.
- What we drove: the JETOUR T2 and G700 on a 15 km off-road route, plus the F700 pickup. We also saw the G700 Ark Edition take to the water.
- Key tech on show: C-DM Super Hybrid, XWD intelligent 4WD with the "7+X" off-road modes and the GAIA all-terrain architecture.
- My verdict in one sentence: on plain road tyres and with no off-road experience needed, these cars went over everything the route threw at them.
The event was part of a bigger week for the Chery Group in Wuhu. If you want the full picture, including the group conference and the carnival, read our overview: Chery WCWL 2026 in Wuhu.
Who JETOUR is, in two paragraphs
JETOUR is one of the Chery Group's brands, launched in 2018. From day one it built its identity on what it calls "Travel+": boxy SUVs designed around road trips, camping and light off-roading rather than around the school run. It worked. By September 2026 JETOUR had sold more than 2.56 million cars, is present in over 100 countries and says it is the best-selling brand of box-style SUVs in 13 of them.
The range is split into two families. The T Series (T1, T2) covers urban driving and light off-road. The G Series, led by the G700, is JETOUR's premium, serious off-road line. Europe, Australia and New Zealand are named as the next markets to crack. JETOUR says it wants a bigger presence in Europe. It is already on sale in some European countries, including Poland and, more recently, Romania, where it has a local dealer network. Beyond that, nobody gave us dates or a list of countries and models. Where the brand is already on sale outside China, you usually get only a slice of the range.
Day 1, October 20: Wuhu, the Chery R&D Center and a party on the Yangtze
Wuhu is Chery's home town: headquarters, factories and R&D in one city on the Yangtze River. The day started at the R&D Center with the Chery Group's Global Innovation Conference, the main stage of the whole week.
Chery chairman Yin Tongyue looked back at the company's 30-plus years and talked about AI redefining the car, the company and the whole industry. CTO Gao Xinhua summed up the group's tech vision as "creating greater value for human freedom." Then came the hardware and the buzzwords, in a good way: the Sky Dome supercomputing center, the Star Sea big data platform, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging, solar-storage-charging systems, AI foundation models, Robotaxi and the AiMOGA robots.
So what was real product and what was slideware? A useful test is whether something came with a date.
Robotaxis passed that test better than I expected. Chery set itself a target of 100,000 robotaxis on the road worldwide by 2030, with a separate plan for each region. For Europe it wants to skip straight to running full robotaxi services rather than just supplying the cars. That is ambitious, and it will run into regulators long before it runs out of engineers. Closer to home for JETOUR: its cars already drive themselves in China, and its international president told us he commutes to the office without touching the wheel.
Robots were the bigger surprise. I expected factory arms. What I got was a pitch for robots in your living room. AiMOGA, the group's robotics brand, launched Mobo at the summit, a humanoid home companion that understands voice and context, recognises objects and finds its way around a flat, and opened global pre-orders on the spot. There is also Argos, a four-legged robot dog already working on patrol duty, and AiMOGA says a lighter home version is on the way. Whether you want a robot dog at home is a different question, but someone is clearly going to sell you one.
Energy brought the boldest number of the day: charging that adds 500 km of range in five minutes. I would want to see that at a real charger in a European winter before I believe it. More concrete was a smaller promise: a JETOUR model with a solar panel is planned for next year.
JETOUR's part of the story was more down to earth. Its message: all this group technology only matters if it makes a road trip easier. The T Series gets C-DM Super Hybrid powertrains and XWD four-wheel drive. The G Series sits on the GAIA architecture, which combines a hybrid system with a dedicated off-road chassis and a premium cabin.
Evening: beach market at Dalongwan
In the evening we crossed to the north bank of the Yangtze for a beach camping dinner at Dalongwan, right where the river makes a huge bend opposite Wuhu's city centre. The whole market, from cooking stations to music, ran on power from the cars' built-in V2L (vehicle-to-load) outlets. A simple demo, but it explains V2L better than any spec sheet.
And it all worked: the lights, the cooking, the music, all running off the cars for the whole evening. The mood was relaxed and friendly, and after a long day of conference halls it was the first real chance to get to know the people we would spend the week with, journalists and creators from all over the world.
Day 2, October 21: off-road treasure hunt in Moganshan
Early start, three hours by coach to Moganshan in Zhejiang Province. These are bamboo-covered hills where foreigners escaping the summer heat started building villas in the 1880s. By 1929 there were 242 of them, and today the villa cluster is a protected national monument.
Instead of a closed test track, JETOUR turned a 15-kilometre all-terrain route into an "Off-Road Treasure Hunt". Teams drove the T2 and the G700 through water crossings, a fording bridge, gravel, steep climbs, cross-axle sections, camel humps and craters.
The "treasure" part was literal. At several checkpoints along the route we stopped, got out and searched the area within a set radius for hidden boxes. Inside were gold coins stamped with the emblems of JETOUR models, one, two or three per box. Whoever collected the most coins by the end won prizes, handed out that evening.
I am writing about each car separately, because they are very different machines: - JETOUR T2 and how XWD with the "X" button works in practice (full T2 off-road test coming soon) - JETOUR G700 with the GAIA platform, three differential locks and air suspension (full G700 off-road test coming soon)
Here is the detail that surprised me most: the cars on the route were running on ordinary road tyres. No mud-terrain tread, nothing special. And yet, on mud and very slippery ground, they went through deep water, up steep climbs and down steep descents with practically no loss of grip. At times it felt as if they were breaking the laws of physics.
The reason is the software. The AI takes the whole burden off you: it switches the drive modes and locks the differentials by itself, so you don't need any off-road experience to get through difficult terrain. Whether it was the T2, the G700 or the F700, I came away with the same impression: these cars will go over pretty much anything.
You might expect me to name the hardest obstacle here. Honestly, I can't. Nothing on the route was hard for these cars, and that is the most useful thing I can tell you about them.
Camp life and the Starlight Forum
While one group was out on the route, the other worked through stationary challenges at the campsite. Six teams of eight or nine people, each challenge against the clock, each built around a real road-trip problem.
- Interior space. Fit three things entirely inside a JETOUR S08 and close the doors: a 3.4-metre teddy bear, a portable football goal and a billiard table. You have five minutes to plan and then it is all about folding the seats the right way.
- V2L coffee. First the filtration team builds a water filter in a cut-off bottle from coarse sand, fine sand, crushed charcoal, small stones and dry grass, then runs dirty water through it until there is enough. Meanwhile the coffee team grinds the beans with a brewing kit JETOUR prepared for the occasion. The kettle that boils the filtered water is plugged straight into the hybrid battery of a T2. No generator, no campsite socket.
- The fallen tree. The team secures a log weighing several hundred kilograms with tow straps and a recovery damper, then one of us drives the F700 plug-in hybrid pickup, here in its Wild Hunter build on all-terrain tyres, and drags it off the track into a target area. It did not even notice. From the driver's seat you could not feel that it was pulling anything, and it did the whole job on electric power without starting the petrol engine. The F700 is rated to tow 3.5 tonnes, so a log was never going to trouble it. More on the F700 in a separate article, coming soon.
At night, the Starlight Forum. JETOUR International president Ke Chuandeng and executive vice president Yan Jun handed out the treasure hunt prizes, and then guests from different markets compared notes on what off-road capability and comfort mean where they live. Desert, mud, mountain passes, potholed back roads: every market wants something slightly different.
It was a genuinely warm evening. The organisers had clearly put a lot of thought into it, and the talk went well beyond the cars: where the industry is heading, what it looks like right now and what matters most in each market, from people who write about cars in very different corners of the world.
The night itself was not in a tent. We stayed in villas at naked Stables, a resort tucked into the Moganshan forest, with a view of nothing but trees. After a full day of mud, logs and coin hunting, a long soak in the bath was exactly what I needed.
The G700 Ark Edition: an SUV that drives into a lake
One of the more unusual moments of the trip happened at JETOUR's dedicated navigation base: the G700 Ark Edition, an amphibious version of the G700 that does not stop at the water's edge. JETOUR ran an emergency navigation drill first, then let the media drive it.
This one deserves its own article, coming soon.
Watching it from the shore is strange at first. A big off-roader drives straight into a lake and, instead of stopping, just keeps going. My favourite moment had nothing to do with the engineering: once out on the lake, the people inside popped up through the sunroof and started fishing.
Day 3, October 22: Xiazhu Lake and the crested ibis
The quietest day was arguably the most memorable. Xiazhu Lake National Wetland Park in Deqing County covers 36 km² of canals, reed beds and islands, and it is one of China's key sites for bringing back the crested ibis.
Some context: in 1981 the entire known wild population of the crested ibis was seven birds, found in Shaanxi Province. Decades of breeding and reintroduction later, the species is recovering. Xiazhu Lake has run its breeding and release programme since 2014, and by 2022 there were 287 wild ibises in the area.
Our part was hands-on: watching the birds, helping prepare and install nesting structures, and releasing fish fry into the wetland. JETOUR runs similar projects elsewhere, from cheetahs in Africa (with Discovery and the Cheetah Conservation Fund) to sea turtles in Malaysia, markhor in Pakistan and harpy eagles in Panama.
It was a genuinely relaxing day. We crossed to an island by boat and watched the ibises there, while our guide, who had worked on bringing the species back himself, kept us busy with stories from those years. Then it was our turn to help. Together with my friend Peng I built a nest for the ibises and we hung it up in a tree. To finish, we released young fish into the lake.
In the afternoon a coach took us the 220 km back to Wuhu, about three hours on the road.
Day 4, October 23: the Chery Group's big day
The last day belonged to the whole Chery Group: the Global Ecosystem Conference during the day and the group carnival at night. More in our overview: Chery WCWL 2026 in Wuhu.
What I take home
- Off-road tech: it works on the trail, not just on the slides. On ordinary road tyres, with the software choosing drive modes and locking differentials, nothing on the Moganshan route gave the T2, G700 or F700 any trouble. You do not need to be an off-road expert to go where these cars go.
- The car as a travel base: the V2L story is not a gimmick. We boiled water for coffee from a T2's battery, a whole beach party ran on car power, and the F700 pulled a log on electricity alone. That is useful the moment you are somewhere without a socket.
- Who should look at these cars: travellers. People who like to spend their time outdoors, not just between hotel walls. Where other cars get stuck and wait for a tractor, these keep going.
- What I still want to know: which of the models and powertrains we drove will actually be sold outside China, at what price, and how good the service network will be. Right now most markets get only a slice of the range, often without the hybrids.
One thing is clear after these four days: JETOUR does not want to be judged from a brochure. It took us to the mountains, through rivers and out to a campsite, because that is where it believes its cars make sense. Fair enough. For me, the best part of the whole idea is simple: a car like this lets you explore more than the area around your home, and reach the wilder, harder-to-reach places most people never see.
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