▌ News ▌ News that one of the three major Japanese car brands will be connected to Huawei’s smart driving system.
Blogger Sun Shaojun 09 revealed on April 7 that one of the three major Japanese car brands (Honda, Toyota and Nissan) will access Huawei’s smart driving system.
The specific brand has not been disclosed at present, which has triggered a heated discussion among netizens.
At present, however, neither Huawei nor the rumored three brands has received any positive response.
Huawei currently provides three main models in cooperation with car companies, namely, spare parts supply model, solution model (HI model) and smart car selection mode (Hongmeng Zhihang).
According to the latest figures, the market share of Japanese cars, which once accounted for 30% of the market, fell to 14.
4% last month and is expected to hit a new low this year.
In ▌, ▌ Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao hosted a round table meeting for Chinese electric vehicle enterprises in Europe.
According to the website of the Ministry of Commerce, Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao hosted a round table meeting for Chinese electric vehicle enterprises in Europe in Paris, France on April 7th.
The EU-China Chamber of Commerce and representatives of more than a dozen enterprises, including Geely, SAIC, BYD and Ningde Times, attended the meeting.
The participants introduced the investment and operation in Europe and the response to the EU countervailing investigation on electric vehicles.
The meeting focused on optimizing the global layout of Chinese enterprises and deepening practical cooperation in the electric vehicle industry between China and Europe.
Wang Wentao said that Chinese electric vehicle companies rely on continuous technological innovation, a sound production and supply chain system and adequate market competition for rapid development, rather than relying on subsidies to gain competitive advantage, and the accusations of “overcapacity” by the United States and Europe are groundless.
The development of China’s electric vehicle industry has made an important contribution to the global response to gas change and green low-carbon transformation.
The Chinese government will actively support enterprises in safeguarding their legitimate rights and interests.
Wang Wentao pointed out that in the face of external challenges and uncertainties, enterprises should practice their internal skills, adhere to innovation-driven, strengthen risk management, attach importance to green development, deepen cooperation and seek common development with local enterprises, and firmly be a participant and contributor to the global green transformation.
More than 4000 ▌ apps have joined Hongmeng Ecology, with an increase of 20 times in two months.
According to the Beijing Business Daily, Huawei announced on April 7 that more than 4000 apps have joined Hongmeng Ecology.
According to reports, from January 18 this year, Huawei announced that the first batch of more than 200 application manufacturers were accelerating the development of Hongmeng native applications, to more than 4000 applications by the end of March, a 20-fold increase in just two months.
At the beginning of this year, Yu Chengdong, managing director of Huawei, terminal BG CEO and chairman of smart car solution BU, said in his New year’s letter that 2024 is a key year for Hong Meng, and that it is necessary to speed up the development of all kinds of Hongmeng native applications and focus on winning the two most arduous battles of technology base and tripartite ecology through technological innovation, product innovation and business model innovation.
Hongmeng will provide consumers with a high-end exquisite, easy-to-use, extremely smooth, pure and safe experience.
▌ Tengli brand new intelligent luxury flagship sedan named Teng Teng Z9GT, which will be launched at the Beijing Auto Show, the first electric news.
On April 7, Tencent announced that its new intelligent luxury flagship sedan was officially named Teng Teng Z9GT.
It is understood that the new car is currently being tested in Stuttgart, Germany, and the overall shape continues the elegant posture of the GT sports car.
According to previous news, the new car will be officially unveiled at the Beijing Auto Show in April.
▌ ‘s first commercial L4 car will be launched next year! The joint venture between GAC Ean and Didi self-driving has been approved, each holding 50%, according to the Daily Economic News.
Guangzhou Andi Technology Co., Ltd., its joint venture with Didi self-driving company, Guangzhou Andi Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Aidi Technology), was granted an industrial and commercial license.
GAC Ean said that this is the first joint venture between L4 self-driving companies and car companies to build Robotaxi production cars in China.
According to the announcement, the first Robotaxi jointly built by the two sides has completed the product definition and is undergoing a joint review of the design and styling.
The first batch of L4 models are scheduled for mass production next year, with a full set of Didi autopilot unmanned intelligent operation system Huijiangang, and access to the DiDi network in the form of mixed dispatch.
The first mass production model will be based on Guangzhou Auto EA AEP3.
0 pure electric platform, Xingling electronic and electrical architecture and multi-fusion sensing self-driving mass production technology, equipped with Didi self-driving L4 urban generalization engine and unique self-driving technology for travel service.
, ▌ Xiaomi statement: Zhimi founder Su Jun’s automobile-related business with Chery has nothing to do with Xiaomi Group and Xiaomi ecological chain.
According to interface news, Xiaomi released a statement on April 7 that Zhimi founder Su Jun’s automobile business with Chery has nothing to do with Xiaomi Group and Xiaomi Ecological chain.
▌ ideal L6 starting price is only 259800 yuan? According to the official response, Auto House news, a few days ago, the network exposed the ideal L6 related parameter configuration information, including the model price, Pro version price 259800 yuan, Max version price 289800 yuan.
In this regard, the ideal official response said, “online speculation about the price is false, we have not announced the price, please pay attention to the release of L6.
” Recently, at the 2024 China humanoid Robot Ecological Conference held by Shanghai Qingpu Intelligent Valley Industrial Park, Yipeng, head of the humanoid robot in charge of the automobile intelligent engineering project, Yipeng, demonstrated to the outside world the “possibility” of automobile manufacturing and humanoid robot docking.
Lailai Automobile has mainly made two attempts on the “humanoid robot car construction”.
One is to fix the humanoid manipulator in a small space, to carry out multi-task operations by using 5G and visual algorithms, and the other is the partial quality inspection of humanoid robots.
▌ SAIC Group received 26.
5 billion roubles of equity transfer from MG India, retaining more than 49% of the voting rights, Shell Financial News, SAIC announced new progress on SAIC MG India strategic investment on April 7.
After signing a strategic cooperation agreement with Indian steel giant JSW Group at the end of last year, SAIC announced that SAIC had received 26.
5 billion rupees (2.
3 billion yuan) in equity transfers paid by JSW.
With regard to the equity ratio that the market is particularly concerned about, SAIC said that SAIC will retain 49% of MG India’s equity and a higher proportion of voting rights after the completion of the premium transfer and capital increase.
SAIC is expected to increase its net profit by 50-7%.
One billion yuan.
IPO, the ninth car company of ▌ Li Shufu Polar krypton response! Recently, two people familiar with the matter revealed that Geely’s high-end electric car brand, Polar Krypton, has resumed its IPO in New York.
In response, Polar Krypton said in a response statement, “the company has submitted public documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission and is making preparations.
” It is worth noting that Polar Krypton will be Li Shufu’s ninth car company IPO.
However, the IPO’s fund-raising target has been slashed to up to $500m (about 3.
625 billion yuan), well below the previous target of more than $1 billion (about 7.
233 billion yuan).
▌ 2024 Ningde era Energy Storage New products launch meeting scheduled for April 9, IT House reported on April 7 that Ningde Times official Xuan will hold the launch of 2024 Ningde era energy storage new products at 15:00 on April 9.
Ningde era as the “leader” in the field of power batteries, this conference is expected to focus on the new products of energy storage batteries in Ningde era, the second growth end.
According to IT House, in 2023, Ningde Times achieved a 34.
95% year-on-year increase in lithium-ion battery sales 390GWh, including a 32.
56% year-on-year increase in power battery system sales 321GWh and a 46.
81% year-on-year increase in energy storage battery system 69GWh.
Ningde era 2023 energy storage battery system revenue accounted for only 14.
94% of the total revenue.
At present, Ningde era provides energy storage product solutions such as cells, battery cabinets, energy storage containers and AC side systems, mainly for the fields of generation side, transmission and distribution side and user side.
Zhang Yong, CEO of ▌, confirmed that the EP41 was named “Nezha S hunting car”.
According to Pacific Automotive Network, Zhang Yong, CEO of Nashi car, confirmed on Weibo a few days ago that EP41 was finally named “Nezha S hunting car”, and the tail tag is still “Nezha S”.
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The Nezha S hunting car can be regarded as the hunting version of the Nezha S sedan, which is based on the architecture of Shanhai platform version 2.0. The front suspension of the new car is longer, and it uses a split headlight group like Nashi S, with LED daytime driving lights at the top and a combination of far and near lights on both sides of the front.
It was previously reported that the Naxi S hunting car will be equipped with front and rear dual motors plus four-wheel drive and 800V architecture, and will be equipped with Ningde Shenhang battery long-life L series, bringing a better life experience.
▌ Robin Li’s first speech in 2024 is scheduled for April 16, Sina Technology News on the afternoon of April 7, Sina Technology learned that at the 2024 Baidu Create AI developer Conference to be held on April 16, Robin Li, founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, will deliver a speech with the theme “everyone is a creator”.
This is Li Yanhong’s first speech in 2024, which will not only show the cutting-edge achievements of Baidu AI technology, but also bring the Wenxin model series of “group debut” and three major development artifacts, including the agent development tool AgentBuilder, the codeless programming tool AppBuilder and the model customization tool ModelBuilder.
According to reports, these three out-of-the-box tools will further lower the development threshold of the AI era, ordinary people who do not know how to code can also be used directly, so that everyone can become developers and creators.
▌ international ▌ AI army prepares for war with no worries about money and food! Musk shakes people from “moments”, and xAI is rumored to be raising $3 billion.
According to sources familiar with the situation, investors close to Musk are in talks to help xAI raise as much as $3 billion in a round of financing, which will value Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up at $18 billion.
Steve Jurvetson, a prominent supporter of venture capital firm Gigafund and Musk and co-founder of another venture capital firm, is considering participating in xAI’s round of financing, these people said.
▌ Tesla is suffering from sales difficulties and Musk is the fourth richest person in the world.
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Zuckerberg is currently the third richest person in the world with a fortune of 187 billion US dollars.
This is the first time Zuckerberg has been in the top three since 2020, Fortune reported.
At the same time, Tesla CEO Musk’s wealth has shrunk and is now in fourth place with a fortune of $181 billion.
Behind this news is Tesla’s sales dilemma.
Tesla sold 386800 cars in the first quarter of 2024, the first year-on-year decline in sales in nearly four years.
Tesla’s shares fell more than 7 per cent in morning trading after the news and have fallen more than 34 per cent so far this year.
Zuckerberg is approaching the wealth of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Bezos is the second richest person in the world with a fortune of $207 billion, while Bernard Arnault, CEO of luxury giant LVMH, leads the list with $223 billion, according to Bloomberg.
▌ Altman and Apple’s former chief designer are seeking $1 billion for a new AI project, according to financial sources, according to The Information, OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman and former Apple chief designer Jonathan Ive are seeking $1 billion for a new undisclosed artificial intelligence (AI) project.
Altman and Yves are seeking investment from Thrive Capital, an existing investor in OpenAI, and Emerson Collective led by Jobs’ widow, Lauren Powell, the report said.
The two are also in talks with Softbank Corp.
CEO son to provide funds for their soon-to-be-established AI equipment enterprise.
▌ OpenAI is suspected of using YouTube videos to train its GPT-4 model.
Tech giants OpenAI and Google are accused of using transcripts of YouTube videos to train their artificial intelligence models, a move that may have infringed the copyright of YouTube creators, the New York Times reported.
OpenAI reportedly transcribed more than 1 million hours of YouTube video content using its Whisper speech recognition tool and used the data to train its GPT-4 model.
At the same time, Google has also been exposed to use YouTube video to train its own artificial intelligence model.
However, the actions of the two companies do not seem to have been authorized by all the creators.
Three Wall Street analysts at ▌ sounded the alarm: the “Nvidia bull market” will soon be over! April 7 (FAP)– as the biggest winner of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, Nvidia’s share price has risen all the way to “unboiled water” so far this year.
The increase is as high as 83%.
However, according to several Wall Street analysts, Nvidia’s best days may be over and may start to “stumble” this year.
Gil Luria, an analyst at DA Davidson, believes that the chipmaker’s huge gains may soon be over.
He expects Nvidia’s share price to fall by as much as 20 per cent by the end of the year.
Like several other strategists, he is sceptical about Nvidia’s astonishing valuation.
Luria said in a recent interview that Nvidia is unlikely to maintain rapid growth because companies that invest in artificial intelligence will eventually quit.
In a report, he rated the stock as “hold” with a target price of $620, the lowest expected on Wall Street.
Deutsche Bank maintained its “hold” rating on the company’s shares in a recent report, but noted that the chipmaker’s share price was already high.
Analysts have set a target price of $850 a share, which means the stock will fall 3 per cent from its current level.
▌ new car sales in the US fell 1.
9 per cent month-on-month in March to $2800.
According to the American Association of Automobile Dealers, annualised sales of new light vehicles in the US in March were 15.
5 million (15.
8 million last month).
new car sales fell 1.
9 per cent month-on-month, up 3.
8 per cent from the same period last year (6.
3 per cent last month).
Seasonally adjusted annualised sales in the first quarter were 15.
4 million, up 7 per cent from the same period last year.
The discount for each car was about $2800 in March (up from 2565 last month), up 66.
6 per cent from a year earlier, according to J.D.Power. The inventory of new cars on the ground and in transportation reached 2.
58 million, an increase of 40.
2 per cent over the same period last year.
New car prices fell 3.
6 per cent to $44186 compared with the same period last year as inventories increased and car purchase discounts increased.
Looking ahead, the association expects to sell 15.
9 million cars in 2024, the same as before.
▌ Mercedes-Benz EQS has become the devaluation king of used cars in the United States, depreciating by 47.
8% a year, according to a study by iSeeCars, five of the fastest depreciation models in the United States in the past 12 months are electric vehicles.
Volkswagen ID.
4, Hyundai IONIQ 5, Kia EV6 and Nissan leaf have all lost more than 30 per cent of their value after a year of use.
But the king of devaluation is Mercedes-Benz EQS, whose average second-hand price is only $71231, which can save as much as $65143, or 47.
8%, compared with buying a new car.
In addition to the EQS, among the top 10 models with the fastest depreciation in the past 12 months are the Alfa Romeo Stelvio and Giulia, the Jaguar F-Pace and the fuel version of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class.
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