[3] In January 2015, Freeman Shen, former manager of Geely Automobile and former president of the Chinese branch of Volvo,[4] founded startup WM Motor Technology.

[5] His goal was to put on sale self-built electric cars competitive with similar, short-lived Chinese startups working on vehicles with new propulsion sources.

The EX5 model took the form of an SUV with an electric drive,[10] going into production and sale on the internal Chinese market at the end of 2018.

The model range has been enriched with the mid-size SUV-a W6,[14] and, moreover, WM Motor also announced plans to start the production of classic passenger vehicles.

[17] In the second half of 2022, WM Motors found itself in a bad financial situation, which was caused by growing debt and losses recorded despite attempts to increase sales and product portfolio.

[25] WM Motor operates a proprietary app called GETnGO (Chinese: 即客行), which is primarily aimed at offering search, navigation and payment options for public chargers in China.