What are the four oldest car manufacturers in the world?

The four oldest car manufacturers in the world are Mercedes-Benz, Ford, Volkswagen and Skoda.

1, Mercedes

This world-famous German automobile brand was founded in 1900, and its headquarters is in Stuttgart. It was founded by karl benz and gottlieb daimler. Mercedes-Benz is famous for its high-quality and high-performance automobile products. In addition to high-end luxury cars, Mercedes-Benz is also the most famous manufacturer of buses and heavy trucks in the world.

2. Ford

Ford is a world-famous automobile brand. It is one of many brands owned by Ford Motor Company. Both the company and the brand name "Ford" come from the surname of the founder Henry Ford. Ford Motor Company is one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world. Founded in 1903, it owns Ford and Lincoln automobile brands and is headquartered in dearborn, Michigan.

3. Volkswagen

Volkswagen, translated by Taiwan Province Province as Flowserve, translated by Hong Kong and Macao as Volkswagen or Flowserve, and translated by Ma Xin as Volkswagen, means "people's car" and is usually called "Volkswagen". Volkswagen is an automobile manufacturer headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany, and the core company of Audi AG, one of the four largest automobile manufacturers in the world.

4. Skoda

Skoda is one of the classic brands of German Volkswagen, headquartered in Mlada boleslav, Czech Republic, and one of the four oldest automobile manufacturers in the world.

Czech industry is highly developed, and many industries such as chemical industry and machinery have a long history in the Czech Republic, among which the automobile industry accounts for 4% of the Czech Republic. There are two Czech and state-owned automobile factories, Skoda and Tallat, and 4% domestic laboratory staff serve them. Similar to the complicated history of Czech Republic, Skoda has experienced many wars, coups and mergers in the development process of 100 years.

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China famous automobile group:

1, China FAW

Investment: 9.8 billion yuan is invested in the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, and 720 million yuan is invested in the latest project of the "863" Plan of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Investment implementation: China FAW released the "Blue Way Strategy", and plans to launch three passenger cars 13 and three commercial vehicles, including six new energy vehicles 16. FAW also emphasized the development strategy of new energy vehicles in the Twelfth Five-Year Plan. It will focus on strong hybrid passenger cars, high-grade and above cars with strong hybrid power, plug-in mid-size cars and pure electric economical cars, and break through 60 core technologies including power motors and key components that must be electronic.

R&D department: R&D department of electric vehicles of faw technology center.

2. China Chang 'an:

Investment: 654.38+0 billion yuan.

According to Xu Liuping, the chairman of China Changan Automobile Group, the development path of the group's new energy vehicles is "three steps in ten years": by 20 12 years, we will focus on investing in new energy vehicles 10 billion yuan, fully promote the research and development and industrialization of pure electric vehicles, and the sales share of energy-saving and new energy vehicles will reach 20%; By 20 15, the comprehensive strength will basically reach the first-class in China.

Investment implementation: Changan Automobile has mastered the key technologies of new energy vehicles, such as vehicle system integration and calibration matching, and integrated special engine design, and obtained 144 patents for pure electric, plug-in and hybrid technologies, including 52 invention patents. In the field of hybrid power, Changan Automobile has mastered the key technologies and control strategies of moderate hybrid power.

Changan Automobile Group's A-share issuance plan is the initial step for Changan to realize industrial upgrading and accelerate the development of new energy vehicles. In the next few years, Changan will invest 654.38+0 billion yuan in scientific and technological innovation, accelerate the development of new energy vehicles, adhere to the three-pronged model of hybrid, pure electric and fuel cells, and accelerate the strategic upgrading of new energy vehicles and independent research and development products.

R&D Department: Chongqing Changan New Energy Automobile Company under Changan Group.

3. Dongfeng Group:

Investment: 3 billion yuan

Investment implementation: In the next five years, Dongfeng will invest 3 billion yuan in R&D and industrialization of energy-saving and new energy vehicles. It is estimated that products will be available in 20 12 and 20 13 years, including hybrid vehicles and pure electric vehicles. By 20 15, the number of Dongfeng hybrid electric vehicles will reach 100000, which is qualified for the industrialization of pure electric vehicles, forming a production and sales scale of 50000 vehicles.

R&D department: Dongfeng Electric Vehicle Co., Ltd. of Dongfeng Group.

4.SAIC:

Investment: 654.38+0.2 billion yuan.

Investment implementation: Since 20 10, SAIC has invested 790 million yuan in incubation expenses. 20 10, roewe 750 hybrid project was put on the market as planned, successfully achieving the challenge goal of fuel saving rate of 20%; Roewe 550 plug-in hybrid power project has completed vehicle safety performance verification and crash test, and entered the trial production stage of functional prototype; In 20 12 years, Roewe 550 plug-in hybrid vehicle will be listed.

The pure electric vehicle project has entered the development stage of simulation prototype; Roewe 350EV prototype, E 1 and Roewe 350V2G pure electric concept car developed by SAIC also participated in the World Electric Vehicle Congress and the Shanghai World Expo respectively.

At the same time, in the industrial chain construction of key components of new energy, the battery system joint venture company undertook part of the development work of SAIC plug-in hybrid power project and electric vehicle project; The cooperation project of motor research and development for new energy vehicles has also been formally signed, and the project of integrating key components such as starter, generator, drive motor and power electronics is progressing as planned.

R&D department: SAIC New Energy Automobile Division.

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Baidu encyclopedia-China's four major automobile groups

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Benz

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Baidu encyclopedia-Ford

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Baidu encyclopedia-Volkswagen

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Baidu encyclopedia-Skoda