▌ news, ▍ SAIC GM July sales fell 82.
42% compared with the same period last year, the first Electric August 13 news, SAIC yesterday announced July production and sales KuaiBao.
According to the data, SAIC GM’s sales fell to 15000 vehicles in July, down 82.
42% from a year earlier and 42.
35% from a month earlier.
Cumulative sales from January to July this year were 240579, down 55.
14% from a year earlier.
SAIC GM has encountered serious challenges since the beginning of this year.
Sales stood at 62000 in March and continued to decline in April to 15000 in July.
At present, only Buick is the main force of SAIC GM, which sold 12500 vehicles wholesale in July, but only the Ankewei and GL8 models are the main models.
A few days ago, SAIC has officially announced that it will change the management of SAIC GM.
Zhang Zhuo, general manager of ▍ BYD Ocean Network, said that by 2026, BYD Ocean Network will complete a full product matrix covering 14 models.
Zhang Zhuo, general manager of BYD Automotive Ocean Network, said that by 2026, BYD Ocean Network will complete a full product matrix covering 14 models, while the 100000 yuan model will be equipped with a “refrigerator color TV big sofa”.
According to DearAuto, Zhang Zhuo, general manager of BYD Automotive Ocean Network, will complete a full product matrix covering 14 models.
In the next few years, BYD will strive to fully install self-developed and self-selling smart driving systems in a wider price range, including models with 150000 yuan or less, to promote the popularization of intelligent driving technology.
In addition, Zhang Zhuo believes that with the intensification of market competition, it is possible for large cars to enter the market at more people-friendly prices in the future, and 100000-yuan models will also be equipped with luxury configurations such as “refrigerator, color TV, big sofa”.
▍ Tesla canceled plans to build a factory in Southeast Asia.
The Prime Minister of Malaysia said that because it could not compete with Chinese electric cars, IT Home reported on August 12 that Thailand’s National Daily quoted anonymous official sources on August 6 as saying that Tesla had cancelled plans to build a new factory in Thailand, Malaysia or Indonesia, and withdrew the team in charge of the project.
Then there were rumors that Tesla had “cooled” the ASEAN region.
Malaysian Trade Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz responded: “in fact, we discussed with Elon Musk to attract investment, but Tesla never promised to open a factory here.
” Tesla will expand strategically into the Malaysian market, launching Model 3 and Model Y models, and establishing a network of fast and conventional charging stations at strategic locations in Malaysia, according to a Malaysian official press release on July 20.
In addition, Tesla will set up a local headquarters, service center and experience center in Malaysia.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar said on Friday that Tesla’s postponement of expansion plans in Southeast Asia had nothing to do with Malaysia’s performance or policies, but rather because the company had suffered losses because it was unable to compete with Chinese electric cars.
▍ Nvidia’s next-generation chip landed in the “Hefei Factory” for L4 self-driving.
On August 12th, Hefei Economic Development announced that the regulation-level domain controller AD1 for the L4 self-driving market was successfully offline for the first time at the Lianbao plant located in the economic development district of Hefei, meaning that Lianbao Technology became one of the first factories to achieve the landing of NVIDIA DRIVE Thor chip production.
It is reported that NVIDIA Thor is the next generation of self-driving domain control chip newly developed by Nvidia, with a total of about 16600 points, nearly 10,000 components and 8 DDR,BGA 3900 Balls.
The first users of Thor include ideal, Haopin, Xiaopeng Automobile, BYD and so on.
▍ he Xiaopeng: MONA M03 bookings are hot, and new developments in AI and large hardware will be synchronized this year.
He Xiaopeng, chairman of Xiaopeng Automobile, said on social media on August 12 that MONA M03 bookings are hot these days.
In addition, we will keep pace with the new developments in AI and large hardware this year.
‘The MONA M03 is very popular these days,’he Xiaopeng said.
‘I asked the steel assistant to experience the booking process, which is quite smooth.
The robot hand is flexible and tactile.
Very delicate tasks can be handled in industrial scenarios in the future.
On August 10, at the Shanghai Station of Xiaopeng X9 AI Science and Technology Camp, Xiaopeng auto investors said that the price of Xiaopeng MONA M03 will be within 140000 yuan.
In ▌, ▍ Xiaopeng car CEO he Xiaopeng will start its first live broadcast on Yanchedi and Douyin.
On August 12, Xiaopeng Motor issued a live broadcast notice on the official blog, announcing that “the first photoelectric test live broadcast will be launched on August 13.
it costs only 5 cents to jointly challenge Xiaopeng G6 per kilometer.
” According to the live broadcast trailer, he Xiaopeng and Gu Jie, senior director of Xiaopeng car powertrain, will conduct the last test of running to the nest in Guangzhou from 17:00 to 19:00 on August 13, and will be broadcast live on Douyin and Che Di platforms.
According to ▍, the number of Hangjie S9 has exceeded 6200 and is expected to exceed 10,000 this weekend.
On Aug.
12, the car blogger Electric Front posted that the number of bookings for Huan S9 has exceeded the 6200 mark and continues to sprint to the target of 7000 and 8000.
According to the current trend forecast, by the end of this week, the number of bookings is expected to break through the ten thousand units mark.
However, the news has not been officially confirmed by Huawei.
The blogger said that as a high-end pure electric car priced at no less than 400000, the number of bookings and growth rate of the Huan Jie S9 far exceeded its personal expectations, as evidenced by Huawei’s empowered energy.
The Hengjie S9 went on sale on Aug.
6, priced between 399800 yuan and 449800 yuan, positioning a medium and large luxury car with rear zero gravity seats, Huawei Turing platform, HUAWEI ADS 3.
0high-end smart driving system and so on.
▍ Wenyuan Zhixing is seeking to raise no more than 440 million US dollars through US IPO and private equity.
Fast Technology reported on Aug.
12 that Chinese self-driving technology company Wenyuan Zhixing is seeking to raise no more than 440 million US dollars through US IPO and private equity.
Wenyuan is selling 6.
45 million American depositary shares (ADS) at a price range of $15.
50 to $18.
50 after obtaining approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission for a US listing last year, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.
Each ADS represents three common shares, and Wenyuan’s market capitalization is about $5 billion at the top of the offering price range.
Bosch, the car parts maker, agreed to buy ADS worth no more than $100m at the IPO price, according to the documents.
The pre-sale of the ▍ S hunting suit was officially launched on August 13th, and the pre-sale price of the extended-range version starts from 175900 yuan.
In addition, the car will also launch a pure electric version of the model.
, ▍ Zhiji announced that the new car will be released in August, and netizens are looking forward to changing the LS6 or extended range models.
According to the news of IT Home on August 12, Zhiji Automobile official WeChat this afternoon.
Announced: “there are few words and big things, get ready, wise people, we will see you in August!” The picture shows a car tightly obscured by cloth, with only the words “fixed, released in August”.
Under the Weibo account of Liu Tao, co-CEO of Zhiji Automobile, some netizens speculated that the new car released this time would be a new (modified) Zhiji LS6, or an extended range model.
But officials did not respond to these guesses.
In June this year, people familiar with the matter were quoted as saying that Zhiji’s first extended-range model will be a SUV model, and the new car is scheduled to be released in the first quarter of next year.
“the extended range project was established in the second half of last year, and the first car wants to harvest the market quickly with the positioning of SUV.
” ▍ radish fast statement: no investment joining, leasing, fund raising and other related business has been carried out.
According to the official post of “radish run autopilot”, some lawbreakers have recently developed false websites and APP in the name of “radish fast run” and spread false investment and rental information through the Internet (social media, chat software, etc.). Such as “the top 20000 registered radish fast running members for free rental” and so on.
In this regard, radish run statement, so far, radish fast run has never been on its own or authorized any third party to carry out “investment to join”, “leasing”, “fund-raising” and other related business.
Lawbreakers in the name of “radish fast run” engaged in the release of relevant content and related fraud, have nothing to do with our company, remind the majority of netizens to be vigilant and avoid being cheated.
According to ▍, orders for Zero run exceeded 8000 last week, and sales exceeded 8, 000 for two consecutive weeks.
According to Sun Shaojun, a car blogger, orders exceeded 8000 last week, and sales exceeded 8000 for two consecutive weeks.
Prior to this, Zero launched car purchase rights in August, setting Zero running C16 models to save 40,000 yuan, Zero running C10 to Gaoke saving 43630 yuan, Zero running C11 and C01 to Gaoko saving 37630 yuan, and Zero running T03 to Gaoko saving 32680 yuan.
▌ International, ▍ sales in July have exceeded last year’s total, and Brazil has become the third largest exporter of Chinese cars.
According to the Brazilian Electric vehicle Association (ABVE), from January to July this year, the number of electric vehicles registered in Brazil reached 94616, of which 38% were pure electric vehicles and 31.
7% were plug-in hybrid vehicles.
ABVE believes that total sales of electric vehicles in Brazil are expected to exceed 150000 this year.
Against the backdrop of a slowdown in the electrified growth of the global car market, Brazil is one of the few big markets that are still growing at a high speed.
Figures show that the number of Chinese vehicles exported to Brazil reached 171000 in the first half of this year, an increase of 488 per cent over the same period last year.
Brazil has also become the third largest export destination for Chinese cars, after Russia and Mexico.
There are three main Chinese car brands in the Brazilian market, namely, Chery, BYD and Great Wall.
▍ Musk: the beta version of artificial intelligence model Grok 2 is about to be released.
Tesla CEO Musk said on X on August 12 that the beta version of artificial intelligence model Grok 2 is about to be released.
Grok is the big language model Grok 2 launched by Musk’s AI company xAI, and Musk confirmed on X last month that Grok 2 will be released in a few weeks.
In response to users’ questions about training data, he said the model had been “greatly improved”.
Musk and xAI have not yet released details about the model.
In March, Musk said Grok 2 would surpass the current generation of AI models in “all indicators”.
Musk revealed that the next masterpiece of the Grok series, Grok 3, is in full training and is expected to make an amazing debut around the end of the year.
He stressed that the performance of Grok 3 will reach or even surpass the high-profile OpenAI GPT-5, which is seen as the next disruptive milestone in the field of large language models.
▍ polar krypton car plans to enter the Japanese market in 2025.
According to Nippon Economic News, Chen Yu, vice president of polar krypton intelligent technology, said in an interview that polar krypton plans to enter the Japanese market in 2025.
At present, polar krypton has entered nearly 30 international mainstream markets, including Sweden, the Netherlands, Thailand, Mexico and so on.
By the end of 2024, it will enter 50 countries and regions around the world, including Europe, Asia, Oceania and Latin America.
▍ foreign media: negotiations on the construction of Dongfeng Motor’s plant in Italy are facing new problems.
Italy supports China Dongfeng Automobile Group Co., Ltd. to build a factory in Italy, as long as its requirements for network security and data protection are met.
People familiar with the matter said that in the course of negotiations with Dongfeng Motor Group, the Italian government required that the parts of infotainment equipment in production be provided by local suppliers.
At the same time, it is also hoped that consumer data collection and management will be carried out in Italy.
According to the report, the above requirements are only part of the rules set by Italy, which aims to allow Chinese automakers to drive the development of the Italian auto industry.
Italy requires that 45% of the parts of every car made by Dongfeng come from Italy, according to people familiar with the matter.
According to the International Association of Automobile Manufacturers, Italian car production has fallen from 1.
74 million in 2000 to 880000 in 2023.
▍ Vietnam plans to provide electricity subsidies for electric vehicle charging stations, according to Zitong Financial News, the Vietnamese government issued a statement on August 12, which plans to provide electricity price subsidies for electric vehicle charging stations in order to reduce operating costs and promote the popularity of electric vehicles.
According to foreign media reports, the subsidy program will be submitted to the central government in mid-September and awaiting approval.
Vietnam currently has more than 150000 charging ports, most of which are owned by VinFast, Vietnam’s largest electric car maker.
The statement also said that other incentives will be developed in the future to promote the production and import of electric vehicles, and to encourage consumers to buy and use electric vehicles instead.
▍ Volkswagen: production of the Trinity model has been delayed until 2032.
Volkswagen postponed the production of ID.
4 ‘s successor, the Trinity electric car, and the electric SUV may also be delayed, according to the German business newspaper on Aug. 12. Production was originally expected to start in 2026, but now it may not start production until the end of 2032.
Oliver Blume, Volkswagen’s chief executive, said the company had stopped plans to build a separate plant for the Trinity model and instead integrated its production into existing facilities at the main Wolfsburg plant.
The media quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that the reason for the delay was related to software problems.
and market demand adjustments.
The current demand for electric vehicles is weak, and the public needs to cut costs to meet this challenge.
Delaying the release will allow the company to utilize existing vehicle platforms for longer periods of time, thereby reducing investment costs.
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