The special purpose acquisition company provided $6,543.8+$500 million in cash in this transaction, and raised $200 million from investors. After the merger, the company's equity value is $65.438+$400 million. The two companies plan to complete the transaction in the first quarter of next year.
Recently, more and more enterprises began to acquire the capital needed for development by merging with special purpose acquisition companies. Innoviz is the fourth company focusing on lidar to merge with blank check company this year.
According to foreign media reports, Volvo has completed its XC? 60? The SUV series is electrified and equipped with a light hybrid plug-in hybrid version. After electrification, traditional gasoline and diesel engines will change from XC? 60% of the product lineup has disappeared, and Volvo is now working hard to reduce automobile emissions and improve economy.
The hybrid XC60 will use a gasoline or diesel engine with a displacement of 2 liters and be equipped with light mixing technology. The prefix of this model is B, which replaces the previous inline internal combustion engine models with T and D prefixes. The cheapest model after electrification will be equipped with B4 diesel engine and B5 gasoline engine with power of 194 horsepower and 247 horsepower respectively. Both engines are equipped with a 48-volt optical hybrid system, which can collect the energy usually lost before braking and re-release the recovered energy when the engine is in working condition. This system can improve efficiency and reduce emissions, and consumers can choose front-wheel drive or four-wheel drive system.
Tesla announced that it will launch Model in the New Year holiday? S and Model? X's production line was closed for some time. This move may be the latest sign that these two cars are about to usher in change.
According to the latest news, Tesla plans to extend this model in fremont factory. S and Model? X downtime. Tesla informed the employees on the production line by email that the company will stop work from February 24th to1October 24th, 65438+ 1 1. It is not uncommon for Tesla to shut down during the Christmas and New Year holidays, but the shutdown time of 18 days is longer than before, and what is the company model this year? 3 and model? Y's downtime is not that long.
During the production suspension period, in addition to the normal holiday leave, Tesla will also provide relevant employees with an extra week of paid leave. Tesla advises employees to spend this time with their families, but the company says that these employees can also support other teams or deliver vehicles through volunteer service or other limited paid opportunities.
Tesla didn't explain to these employees the reasons for extending the suspension of production, which aggravated the model? S and Model? The rumor that X is about to be revised. Recently, about models? S and Model? There are more and more rumors that X may be redesigned, especially after Tesla previously announced the Model? s？ The grid will usher in some important changes.
According to foreign media reports, in order to stimulate sales and set a new quarterly delivery record, Tesla will provide consumers with 1 year free super charging service to encourage delivery before the end of the year.
The latest news shows that despite the strong market demand, Tesla will still provide new preferential measures for car buyers. Foreign media have learned that Tesla has authorized its North American sales staff to buy new models in 65438+February 65438+February? 3 and model? Consumers of Y provide unlimited free super charging service 1 year.
The company said in an internal memo: "All models delivered before 65438+February 12 to 65438+February 3 1? 3 (excluding standard endurance models) and models? Y vehicles will receive a one-year free super charging service. "
According to foreign media reports, Michelin will add radio frequency identification (RFID) chips to all automobile tires by 2023, which will help improve driving safety and provide predictive maintenance services.
RFID can track the whole life cycle of tires and make great contributions to predictive maintenance services. It can also be used to improve driving safety, so that advanced driver assistance systems such as ESP can be fine-tuned according to specific tire characteristics. It also supports timely and accurate tire replacement, provides accurate tire identification and data for dealers and repair shops, reduces assembly errors and helps to control inventory.
This technology will use as many as150,000 chips every year, which can be used to improve the recovery rate of waste tires, allow the verification of recycling, and improve the efficiency of energy recovery projects.
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