Rodi, sold under the Chinese name Youdi, was the electric-car brand of Shandong Zhongrui New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd., based in Liaocheng, Shandong. The company was founded in 2006 as Liaocheng Zhongrui Machinery Equipment Co., and it belonged to the new energy division of Zhongtong Group. In early 2010 it turned to developing small pure-electric passenger cars. It built an electric-vehicle industrial park in Liaocheng and planned to grow within…