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The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released a timetable? The construction of automatic driving and other systems will be completed within this year.
On April 16, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued "Key Points of Automobile Standardization in 2020" (hereinafter referred to as "Key Points"). The "Points" pointed out that in 2020, the standardization of intelligent networked vehicles will focus on promoting the coordination between the standard system and industrial demand, supporting each other in technical development, establishing a new standard system coordinated with national standards, enterprise standards and alliance standards, promoting the rapid development and application of intelligent networked vehicles technology, giving full play to the leading and normative role of standards, and supporting the transformation and upgrading and high-quality development of China's automobile industry. The "Points" mentioned that the industry needs to complete the phased construction goal of the standard system, accelerate the improvement of the intelligent networked automobile standard system, and establish an intelligent networked automobile standard formulation and implementation evaluation mechanism. Promote the formulation of product management and application demonstration standards, increase the effective supply of standards required for intelligent networked automobile product management, and give play to the supporting role of standards in the demand and application demonstration of key industries. In addition, it is necessary to speed up the introduction of various urgently needed key standards and deepen exchanges and cooperation in international standards and regulations.
Tesla's new factory may be located in Missouri, which promises to provide Tesla with preferential policies of about 654.38 billion US dollars.
According to foreign media reports, Missouri, USA has officially submitted a tender for the super factory to Tesla, and promised to provide preferential incentive policies worth about 654.38 billion US dollars (about 7.063 billion yuan) for the project. The local government plans to sell the land covering an area of 1042 acres to Tesla at a price of 50%, and provide a tax concession of 100% for a period of 12 years. Compared with other bidders, the new factory in Missouri will save Tesla about $75 million in salary every year.
Volkswagen Group's profit in the first quarter fell sharply year-on-year, withdrawing its 2020 annual performance outlook.
Volkswagen Group announced on Thursday that it expects operating income of 55 billion euros in the first quarter of this year, down 8% year-on-year; Operating profit was 900 million euros, much lower than 3.9 billion euros in the same period last year. Frank Witter, chief financial officer of Volkswagen, said that the closure of the factory due to the epidemic has seriously affected the Group's performance, and Volkswagen has taken various measures to reduce costs and ensure cash flow. At present, the net cash flow of Volkswagen Group's automobile business is-2.5 billion euros, and the net working capital is 654.38+07.8 billion euros. Volkswagen's board of directors believes that the company can't complete its 2020 performance expectations and decided to lower its 2020 performance and profit expectations.
Huawei will release a new DC fast charging module and officially enter the field of charging piles.
Recently, it was reported that Huawei will release Huawei on April 24th. HiCharger DC fast charging module is a new product. As one of Huawei's fastest-growing product lines, Huawei's network energy product line covers four major areas: data center energy, communication energy, smart photovoltaic and smart electricity. Among them, Huawei Smart Electric is committed to building high-quality, high-standard automotive electrification solutions, providing components such as charging power supply, electronic control and battery management. The upcoming Huawei? HiCharger DC fast charging module is a new product, which will be used as an infrastructure solution for new energy charging, and has deep cooperation with many departments across the country. At present, the institutions that have confirmed cooperation include State Grid (Beijing), Star Charging (Changzhou), China Southern Power Grid Electric (Shenzhen), Huashang Sanyou (Beijing), Zhuhai Titan (Zhuhai) and Dalian Robinson (Dalian).
The epidemic has curbed the demand for automobiles, and Toyota will reduce production to 79,000 vehicles in May.
Affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, global automobile demand has shrunk dramatically. Toyota Motor Corporation recently said that it plans to reduce the total vehicle output of Japanese factories by 40% to 79,000 vehicles in May, and the reduced vehicles are mainly sold to the United States and the Middle East. Specifically, Toyota will take a number of measures to reduce production, including delaying production time and reducing the number of shifts in some factories from two shifts a day to one shift. Earlier, Toyota announced that it would no longer pay salaries for nearly 5,000 outsourced employees in factories in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Volkswagen and Toyota plan to restart production in European factories in stages next week.
Volkswagen said on Wednesday that its factories in Zwickau, Germany and Bratislava, Slovakia will resume production of passenger cars from April 20, and other factories in Germany, Portugal, Spain, Russia and the United States will resume production next week, with South Africa, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico expected to follow suit in May. Toyota said that its factories in France and Poland will resume production on April 22, and the output will drop sharply. The French factory will implement single shift in the first two weeks.
Uber withdrew its financial guidance in 2020 and will write off about $2 billion in investment.
According to foreign media reports, Uber withdrew its financial guidance for 2020, and said that after the COVID-19 epidemic had a serious impact on tourism, the company would reduce its investment by about $2 billion. Uber said that its minority investment will be between 654.38+0.9 billion and 2.2 billion US dollars. Globally, Uber holds shares in many online car companies and foreign media distribution companies. At the end of last year, Uber's shareholding in Didi Chuxing and Grab, a Southeast Asian company, totaled $654.38+0.03 billion.
Weilai Automobile disclosed the latest shareholding structure: CEO Li Bin holds shares 13.8%.
On the evening of April 16, Beijing time, NIO of Weilai Automobile submitted it to the schedule of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) yesterday. According to the document 13G/A, the shareholding ratio of Li Bin, the chairman and CEO of the company, decreased slightly. According to the documents, as of February 365,438+09, 2065,438+09, Li Bin held 65,438+054,689,253 Class A ordinary shares of Weilai Automobile with the same voting rights and the same disposal rights, accounting for 65,438+03.8% of the total share capital. In contrast, the documents submitted by Weilai Automobile to SCE in June 5438+ 10 show that Li Bin holds15/kloc-0,689,253 common shares, with a shareholding ratio of 14.4%. The IPO prospectus submitted in August, 2065438+2008 shows that Li Bin held 17.2% shares at that time.
State Grid plans to build 105 electric vehicle charging stations in Sichuan this year.
State Grid Sichuan Electric Power Company announced on April 16 that it will invest more than 80 million yuan in Sichuan this year to speed up the construction of electric vehicle charging facilities, and plans to build 105 electric vehicle charging stations with about 2,000 charging piles. Among them, 105 charging station includes 3 bus stations, 15 high-speed charging station, 33 city public stations, 40 community charging stations and 14 dedicated stations.
Director of Porsche R&D: Tesla is not considered a competitor, and the latter is aimed at the low-end market.
Recently, Michael Steiner, head of Porsche R&D department, said in an interview with European Automotive News that Tesla is not considered a direct competitor, and Tesla adopts Model? Obviously, it is aimed at the low-end market with more volume. He also said, model? S-installed high-capacity battery is not an ideal choice. Porsche uses smaller, lighter and cheaper batteries for electric vehicles. In addition, Porsche will continue to launch fuel vehicles.
Mazda RX-9 hybrid power system patent: using capacitor to drive hub motor
It has been reported recently that Mazda now has a rear-wheel drive car platform and Skyactiv-X inline six-cylinder engine, which is the next generation Mazda? 6 car model service. In order to amortize the development cost, the new platform needs to be the next generation Mazda CX-9? SUV and other models provide services. However, this platform is not Mazda's only trump card. Mazda's goal is to introduce 48V hybrid cars and plug-in hybrid cars. Recently, according to foreign media reports, a latest patent application document shows that Mazda is still considering introducing a hub motor driven by a capacitor. This high-tech hybrid equipment may be specially designed for the future Mazda RX-9 coupe.
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