▌ News, ▍ Hongmeng Zhihang opened full-push parking spaces to parking spaces, the starting point and end point does not rely on fixed parking spaces, the first electric news on December 21, Hongmeng Zhihang announced that the HUAWEI ADS 3.
0 “parking space-to-parking navigation assistant Beta” function has begun full push.
This function supports the free choice of parking spaces from parking spaces to roadside, from roadside to parking spaces, and from parking spaces to parking spaces, realizing seamless switching of multiple road sections, including easy control of the panoramic scene, including the ground park on the underground garage and the public road section of the closed park.
The new function does not need to remember the park route manually, can be used when driving into a strange parking lot for the first time, and does not rely on a fixed parking space at the beginning and end point, and the vehicle can roam and find its own location.
Autonomous non-inductive learning and cloud optimization are interconnected, so that the smart driving function is always new, and the parking lots covered will grow rapidly.
At the same time, the “parking VPD Beta” function also ushered in a full push, which aims to free the driver from the parking problem and achieve one-click remote summoning.
This function supports narrow road car reversing and avoiding, roaming to find empty parking space when parking space is occupied, with minimum 5cm high precision obstacle identification detour ability, and the narrowest parking width + 40cm extremely narrow parking space ability.
▍ Tesla released FSD v13.2.2, December 22nd the first electric news, Tesla CEO Elon Musk released FSD (supervision) v13.2.2 on his social platform, only 6 days after the last update.
The new features of this version include 36 Hz full resolution A14 video input, native A14 input and neural network architecture, and 4.
2 times data scaling.
In addition, with the support of Cortex cluster, the amount of training computation is increased by 5 times, and the delay from photon to control is reduced by 2 times.
FSD v13.2.2 also introduces speed profiles for urban streets and highways, integrates parking, reversing and parking functions, and improves reward prediction for collision avoidance and camera cleaning technology.
The controller is redesigned to achieve smoother and more accurate tracking.
In addition, the software also has the function of dynamic route planning, which can avoid road closure in real time and improve driving safety and convenience.
, FSD 13 version timeline: 11.
30 meme v13 update. 12.15 recorder v13.2.1 update.
▍ Lai Automobile released ET9 and firefly fireflies, and there is more possibility of cooperation with Ningde Times.
The first Electric Power announced the official launch of its administrative flagship car, ET9, with a starting price of 788000 yuan and a battery rental scheme BaaS price of 660000 yuan.
Delivery of the new car is expected to begin in March next year, with an initial limited edition priced at 818000 yuan.
In terms of intelligence, Xilai ET9 provides three lidars with no dead angle detection capability, and the first engine is equipped with two self-developed smart driving chips “Shenji NX9031”, which is built by 5nm technology.
The new car is also first launched with cedar cedar intelligent system, supporting high-level intelligent driving, NOMl Intelligence and other intelligent applications.
And will use the global lane-level navigation service launched by Amap for the first time.
At the same time, it launched the first model of its third brand, firefly Firefly.
The new car has a pre-sale price of 148800 yuan and is scheduled to go on sale in April 2025.
The body structure is made of high-strength steel and aluminum alloy, accounting for up to 83.
4%, and is equipped with ultra-wide double-front anti-collision beams and super-strong double front door anti-collision beams, as well as the largest number of nine airbags in the same class.
In terms of smart driving, fireflies will be equipped with horizon smart driving chips.
According to the Financial Associated Press, Li Bin, chairman of
, said that the battery pack of the third brand firefly is smaller than that of NIO and Ledao, and it may have more cooperation with Ningde Power Exchange Ecology.
▌ domestic, ▍ Lecker Z20 pure electric SUV is on the market, and more than 60% of new energy model sales will be mixed with SUV next year.
According to the first Electric News on December 22nd, Lectra Automobile announced the official launch of its new pure electric compact SUV– Lecker Z20.
The new car is based on the vast SEA architecture and uses the latest The Next Day design language of the Lecker family, with a pre-sale price range of 146000 yuan to 161000 yuan.
In the media group interview after the launch of Lecker Z20, Lectra revealed that the brand’s new energy models accounted for more than 61% of sales, with an overall average price of more than 170000 yuan.
in the future, A-class, A0-class and A00-class models will be the “home field” of Lecker Pure Electric, and plans to launch a large-scale plug-in SUV early next year, which will be developed based on the new large-scale car electric hybrid exclusive architecture.
▍ SAIC Mingjue launched two new energy vehicles in 2025: pure electric sedan and plug-in SUV, the first electric on December 22nd, SAIC announced that the MG brand will launch two new models in 2025, including a compact pure electric sedan and a new energy big 5-seat SUV.
The new energy big 5-seat SUV will adopt plug-in hybrid technology.
In terms of design, the new MG model will reduce the British style and add Chinese elements to show the global influence of Chinese cars.
▍ ideal car CEO Li wants to “return”, holding “AI Talk” for three consecutive days.
According to the first Electric News on December 20, ideal car announced that it will hold the “2024 ideal AI Talk” event at 8 p.m. from December 25 to 27, each event lasting 30 minutes.
Ideal car founder Li Xiang will “return” at the event to discuss the company’s layout in the AI field and respond to topics such as the purchase of Ferrari.
In December, ideal Motors held an intelligent software launch and released the OTA 5.
0 upgrade, which supports full-scene intelligent driving (NOA) and full-scene assisted driving (LCC).
The delivery cycle of ▍ Xiaopeng P7 + has been shortened to 5-8 weeks.
According to blogger Zhu Yulong-YL on December 20, Yiwei LiNeng launched three production lines to support the production of Xiaopeng P7 + batteries.
Due to the higher-than-expected sales of Xiaopeng P7 +, Yiwei Lithium can quickly add one production line one month after its launch, and it is possible to add two more next month to fully support the production and delivery of P7 +.
After three production increases, the delivery cycle of Xiaopeng P7 + has been shortened to 5-8 weeks, which is more than 3 weeks shorter than when it was first launched.
Some P7 + owners who were supposed to pick up their cars after the Spring Festival can now advance to the Spring Festival premise cars.
▍ Changan Automobile, together with Yihang Intelligence, will invest 20 billion yuan in the layout of the flying vehicle industry in the next five years.
First Electric reported on December 21, Changan Automobile announced the signing of a flying vehicle cooperation agreement with Yihang Intelligence to jointly promote the research and development and commercialization of key technologies of flying vehicles.
Changan Automobile Company plans to invest more than 20 billion yuan in the low-altitude economy in the next five years to accelerate the development of the flying automobile industry.
In addition, Changan Automobile also plans toOver the past ten years, we have invested more than 100 billion yuan to explore three-dimensional travel solutions for land, sea, air and humanoid robots.
▌ International, ▍ Honda Nissan launched merger negotiations on the 23rd and announced that Mitsubishi is considering joining.
Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported that Honda and Nissan will start merger negotiations on December 23rd, aimed at establishing the framework of the world’s third largest automobile alliance.
Mitsubishi Motors is also considering deciding whether to join the merger early next year.
The presidents of the three companies will report to Japan’s Ministry of economy, Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Land and Transport on December 23, and hold a meeting to formally release the news.
▍ Weilai fireflies plan to launch in Europe in the first half of 2025, and the cost of replacing power stations will be reduced by 30%.
According to Reuters on December 22nd, Weilai announced plans to launch the firefly brand in the European market in the first half of 2025 and sell and serve jointly with local partners.
In addition, Xilai will speed up the construction of European power stations by simplifying the design.
Firefly cars will cost 1/3 less than European Weilai-branded cars, and will seek local partners to expand infrastructure.
▍ Xiaopeng opened its first store in Australia to promote the expansion of the Asia-Pacific market.
On December 21, Xiaopeng officially opened its first car store in Australia as part of its strategy to expand overseas markets.
The store displayed Xiaopeng G6 SUV model and Xiaopeng flying car, which attracted the attention of local consumers.
Xiaopeng has established a partnership with local company TrueEV.
As the only importer, distributor and retailer of Xiaopeng in Australia, TrueEV is responsible for introducing Xiaopeng to the Australian market.
In addition to doing business in Australia, Xiaopeng is also actively promoting car sales plans in other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, such as Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia, in order to expand its influence and market share in overseas markets.
▍ Volkswagen reached a “Christmas miracle” agreement to cut 35000 of its jobs and cut production capacity by 734000 vehicles by 2030.
Volkswagen announced a comprehensive overhaul of its German operations, including reducing German factory capacity by 734000 vehicles, or 1/4 of its total capacity, and cutting 35000 jobs, or 1/4 of its workforce, by 2030.
After 70 hours of painstaking negotiations, Volkswagen reached an agreement with the union, which union leaders hailed as a “Christmas miracle”.
The research and development of ▍ OpenAI GPT-5 has encountered challenges, high cost and lower-than-expected performance improvement.
According to the Wall Street Journal on December 22nd, OpenAI’s next-generation large language model GPT-5 has encountered challenges in the progress of research and development, lagging behind the original plan, and the current performance improvement has not reached the level that matches the cost of research and development.
This echoes previous reports from The Information, which suggested that GPT-5 may not be able to achieve significant performance improvements compared to previous models.
OpenAI has spent 18 months on the GPT-5 project, code-named Orion, and has conducted at least two large-scale exercises aimed at improving the performance of the model through massive data training.
However, the progress of the first training is lower than expected, which may mean that larger-scale training will take more time and cost.
▍ European lithium battery giant Northvolt sought financing after bankruptcy, first Electric reported on December 22, European lithium battery giant Northvolt announced that it is expected to obtain additional bankruptcy financing by the end of January next year.
The company has approached more than 100 lenders and investors with the goal of raising new funds to promote a smooth bankruptcy restructuring.
At a court hearing in Houston, Northvolt’s lawyer revealed that the company plans to submit a long-term financing proposal to a US bankruptcy judge at a court hearing on January 28.
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