Tang Jing, President of Ideal Auto's first product line, took to Weibo to dispel any doubts regarding the company's manufacturing practices. He confirmed that Ideal Auto has never employed the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) model. All Ideal models bear the company's distinctive 'Ideal' tail logo and have never been labeled as 'Lifan'. The Ideal ONE mass production vehicles are manufactured exclusively at the company's Changzhou factory. Furthermore, post-2020, production has also commenced at Ideal Auto's facilities in Beijing Shunyi and Chongqing Liangjiang. Tang addressed some internet users' misunderstandings about Ideal's early development stages, where the distinction between OEM trial production and the company's in-house production system was blurred, leading to the unfounded rumor of 'Lifan OEM'.
