▌ News, ▌ New Energy vehicle sales rebounded in the third week of April, first Electric reported on April 24, the third week of April (4.15-4.21) new energy vehicle sales data were released, BYD and New Power brand sales rebounded significantly compared with the second week of April.
BYD sold 57868 vehicles in the third week of April, up 7046 from 50822 in the second week.
6044 in the third week, of which 2855 in M7 and 2598 in M9, up 1048 last week.
Tesla 5168 in the third week, 6 121 last week, down 953.
ideal in the third week 4 488, 7 160 last week, down 2 672.
zero running 3 875 in the third week, 3 976 last week, down 101 Polar krypton 3159 in the third week, 2677 last week, an increase of 482.
Lai Lai 3019 in the third week, 2529 last week, an increase of 490.
Xiaopeng 2494 in the third week, 1611 last week, an increase of 883.
Xiaomi 1716 in the third week, 2394 last week, down 678.
intelligence, 1098 in the third week, 800 last week, an increase of 218.
▌, the US Senate passed the bill to sell TikTok, and the time limit for divestiture is about nine months after the president signed it.
According to China Business News, on Tuesday, local time, the US Senate passed a bill related to TikTok.
According to public information, the Senate passed the bill by a vote of 79 to 18 and sent it to President Joe Biden’s desk.
Once Biden finishes signing, the clause will give TikTok’s parent company about nine months to sell the app, otherwise it will face a national ban and Biden could extend the deadline by 90 days.
Jin Yuzhi, ▌ of Huawei: it is estimated that more than 500000 vehicles will be equipped with Huawei’s smart driving system by the end of the year.
On April 24th, Huawei held a press conference on Huawei’s smart car solutions and officially launched the new smart driving solution brand “Qianqi”.
Jin Yuzhi, BU CEO of Huawei’s smart car solution, said at a press conference that the second half of electrification, that is, intelligence has arrived, and it is estimated that more than 500000 vehicles will be equipped with Huawei’s smart driving system by the end of 2024.
This means that 2024 will be the first year for smart driving to be commercialized on a large scale.
Jin Yuzhi said that Huawei’s goal is to use intelligence to enable intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit, etc.
, and to bring intelligence into every car, leading the world’s second century of automotive change.
Since its establishment in May 2019, Huawei smart car solution BU has invested more than 30 billion yuan in R & D and has a R & D team of 7000 people.
In 2023, Huawei’s smart car solutions business achieved sales revenue of 4.
7 billion yuan, an increase of 128.
1% over the same period last year.
He also revealed that a number of brands from seven car companies will adopt the dry-and-dry solution.
These include Lantu and Mengshi of Dongfeng, Shenlan and Avita of Changan, Chuanqi of GAC, Jihu and Hengjie of BAIC, Zhi Jie of Cyrus, Zhi Jie of Chery, and Jianghuai.
▌ domestic, ▌ Tesla launched 0 down payment activities, April 24 news, Tesla official blog announced the launch of 0 down payment activities, applicable models for Model 3 and Model Y.
On April 3, the central bank and the State Financial Supervision and Administration jointly issued the notice on the Adjustment of policies related to Automobile loans.
FAW Toyota, FAW Automotive Finance Co., Ltd. (FAW Finance) and Guan Xuan launched the “0 down payment” financial products in an all-round way, and at present, 0 down payment products only support Red Flag HS7 models.
After the subsidy policy for other FAW brands, Guangzhou Huili Auto Finance Co., Ltd. (Guangzhou Huili Auto Capital) also announced the launch of “0 down payment” financial products.
Auto financing companies such as Dongfeng Auto Finance Co., Ltd., Great Wall Binyin Auto Finance Co., Ltd., Chery Huiyin Auto Finance Co., Ltd., Shanghai Dongzheng Auto Finance Co., Ltd., Volkswagen Auto Finance (China) Co., Ltd., and other auto financing companies have also announced the launch of “0 down payment” products recently.
▌ new generation Huawei Hongmeng cockpit released: equipped with Qianwu big model to support wave control, the first electric news, at today’s “Huawei smart car solution launch”, Huawei officially brought a new generation of Huawei Hongmeng cockpit, with smart car machine, smart audio, wisdom display.
According to reports, the new generation of Huawei Hongmeng cockpit car Qianwu big model, with Pangu model, MindS pore computing framework, Yiteng AI basic hardware platform hardware foundation, to create 200+Apps machine ecology.
The Qianwu vision function of the Qianwu model can achieve accurate perception in the millimeter level in the cabin, and the main driver can adjust adaptively, including rearview mirror, steering wheel, HUD height and so on.
At the same time, Qianwu Vision supports full cabin skeleton-level human perception, multi-modal fusion control of the car, waving to control the sunshade, door, air conditioning wind direction and so on.
▌ BYD Wang Chuanfu: BYD models will carry Horizon Journey 6 chips, 21 Economic Network News, BYD Chairman Wang Chuanfu said on April 24 that BYD models will carry Horizon Expedition 6 chips, BYD and Horizon will cooperate deeply to promote the popularity of high-level smart cars.
Today’s Horizon releases a series of 6 chips, including 6 chips, to support low, medium and high-level intelligent driving applications.
, ▌: the 2024 ET7 will be officially launched on April 25, according to the Daily Economic News, according to the official Weibo, the 2024 ET7 will be officially launched at the press conference of the Beijing International Auto Show on April 25.
▌ Great Wall Motor made a net profit of 3.
23 billion yuan in the first quarter, an increase of 1752.
55% over the same period last year.
Great Wall Motor announced on April 24 that the company’s total operating income in the first quarter was 42.
86 billion yuan, up 47.
6% from the same period last year.
the net profit returned to its mother was 3.
228 billion yuan, up 1752.
55% from the same period last year (yes, you read it correctly).
basic earnings per share was 0.
38 yuan.
Great Wall Motor said that the increase in revenue in the quarter was mainly due to the increase in vehicle sales and bicycle income during the reporting period.
the increase in net profit was mainly due to the increase in the company’s sales scale and the optimization of the sales structure in the reporting period, driving a substantial increase in performance indicators such as operating revenue and net profit belonging to shareholders of listed companies compared with the same period last year.
▌ Guangzhou Automobile Energy obtained the electricity sales qualification of Guangdong Electric Power Trading Center, promoting the reduction of electricity cost.
On April 24th, Haopin Automobile official announced that Guangzhou Automobile Energy Technology Co., Ltd. was recently approved to sell electricity at Guangdong Electric Power Trading Center.
This move will help Haopin to become the first batch of automobile mainframe factories to receive this qualification.
At present, Guangzhou Automobile Energy has built more than 1000 fast charging stations, of which 100 are 480kW overcharging stations, which are being accumulated towards the “Wanzhu Project” in 2024.
Haopin said that after obtaining the qualification to sell electricity, GAC Energy will be deeply involved in electricity.
Make market transactions, take more measures to reduce costs and increase efficiency, fully stimulate and release the flexible adjustment ability of the user side, and provide strong support for new market players such as charging stations, new energy vehicles, smart microgrid, energy storage, distributed energy and other new market players to participate in market transactions.
In addition, Haopin announced in January this year that its all-line models will enjoy lifetime free charging rights, covering 90% of the country’s charging piles, plug-and-play.
The activity time is from 0: 00 on January 1 to 24:00 on March 31, which is suitable for self-built charging piles and third-party cooperative charging piles.
▌ Changan Automobile and Aliyun develop car vertical model: the world’s first mass production variable new car, fast science and technology news, learned from Aliyun AI Summit that Changan Automobile will be connected to Aliyun Tongyi big model in many directions.
It is reported that based on Aliyun Tongyi large model and Bailian platform, Changan Automobile is developing a car vertical large model with general text corpus and business corpus, with cockpit interaction as the application core.
According to reports, this innovative interactive application may be carried on Chang’an ‘s upcoming blockbuster model Chang an Qiyuan E07 in 2024.
Qiyuan series is one of the three smart electric brands of Changan Automobile.
Changan Qiyuan E07 adopts the latest SDA platform architecture and is the “world’s first mass production variable new car” launched by Changan.
In addition, Changan Automobile has used Tongyi Ling Code in the research and development scene to improve programming efficiency.
According to public information, as the most popular AI programming tool in China, Tongyi Ling Code has been downloaded more than 2 million times.
It is proficient in more than 200 programming languages such as Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Cmax Cure + and C#, which can help programmers improve their development efficiency by more than 10%.
Xie Lecheng, deputy director of AILAB of Changan Technology, said: “Automobile manufacturers often talk about ‘service’, and getting on the car with a big model is a standard to test whether the ‘service’ is’ skinny dipping’.
Each enterprise can not have so many large model research teams, so we should choose a good large model to build an independent Agent on our own platform.
In the future, we and Aliyun will carry out multi-scene and omni-directional cooperation on cloud platforms and large models to create an intelligent future for the automotive industry.
▌ “Baby bus” Polar Krypton MIX will make its world debut on April 25, based on the vast-M architecture.
According to IT Home, April 24, IT House learned from the extreme Krypton official that the Polar Krypton MIX will make its global debut at 11:00 on April 25 at the Beijing International Auto Show.
The new car is based on the vast-M architecture and is positioned as a “family panoramic five-seater” model, known as “reshaping the space imagination again”.
Recently, Shenzhen Pengcheng Infinite New Energy Co., Ltd. signed a technology license and after-sales service agreement with ▌ Ningde Times in Ningde, Fujian Province.
Lu Jian, general manager of Pengcheng Infinity, and Dr.
Lu Yanhua, director of Ningde Times Energy Storage Technology Center, attended the signing ceremony.
Lin Cailan, general manager of Pengcheng, and Lin Jiubiao, technical director of energy storage in Ningde era, signed the contract on behalf of both sides.
According to the agreement, Pengcheng can use the technology authorized by Ningde Times to produce its energy storage batteries, batteries, modules, electric boxes, battery cabinets and other products.
At the same time, Ningde Times will also provide after-sales service for authorized products.
▌ GAC Ean: the second generation AIONV will support the AI model, according to the financial community, GAC Ean announced on April 24th that the second generation AIONV of the brand new model will be launched at the 2024 Beijing Auto Show.
According to reports, the model is a medium and large SUV, which uses the brand-new “AION” logo.
At the same time, it will be fully upgraded in terms of service life, energy replenishment, safety, etc.
, supporting the AI model and having functions such as urban NDA.
The price of the ▌ GL8 plug-in version of Buick is announced: from 359900 onwards, the Buick brand officially announced that the Buick GL8 Luzun PHEV is officially on the market, this time the listing of three models, the price is 35.
99-419900 yuan.
The new car is equipped with a new generation of SAIC GM PHEV smart electric plug-in system, CLTC pure electric range of 138km, a comprehensive range of 1370 km.
In addition to the electric upgrade, the new car is also further enhanced in terms of comfort and intelligent experience.
After releasing the mixed version of GL8, Buick also plans to launch a pure electric version of the GL8.
▌ Tencent released the full stack capability architecture of the automobile industry big model, 36 krypton news.
On April 24, Tencent officially released the “global intelligence” large model scheme for the automobile industry at the “2024 TIME DAY Tencent Intelligent Travel Technology Open Day”.
At present, it has been applied in five core scenarios, such as automobile research and development, production, marketing, service, enterprise collaborative office and so on.
At the same time, Tencent has released upgrades in smart car cloud, smart cockpit, going out to sea and so on.
According to the official introduction, the big model of Tencent automobile industry is carrying out application practice with more than a dozen automobile industry partners, including Changan, Guangzhou Automobile, FAW Toyota and Dongfeng Lantu.
By the end of this year, Tencent’s smart car products will be loaded into more than 15 million vehicles.
▌ Zhejiang University brain-computer interface team made a major breakthrough: volunteers realized the idea of writing Chinese characters for the first time, integrated Chao News and CCTV News.
On the afternoon of April 23, the Neurological Diseases Branch of the brain-computer Regulation and Clinical Transformation Research Center of Zhejiang University released the latest research results on brain-controlled Chinese character writing.
The operation is roughly as follows: volunteers imagine a normal writing process, which is reflected by the activity of neurons in the motor area.
through the analysis of neural signals in the motor area, the writing trajectory imagined by the volunteers can be obtained.
the robotic arm is controlled to write, and the invasive brain-computer interface is successfully realized to control the robotic arm to write Chinese characters.
Uncle Zhang, a 76-year-old volunteer who participated in “mind Writing”, is a high-level paraplegic after a car accident.
He participated in the brain-computer interface research project of Zhejiang University in 2020 and became the first volunteer in the clinical transformation study of invasive brain-computer interface in China.
At present, Uncle Zhang can complete the movements of large joints in his hands, such as drinking water, eating, and shaking hands, through his mind, filling in the gaps in China.
▌ International, ▌ Musk: the Optimus Prime robot is still in the experimental stage at the end of next year at the earliest.
FAP, April 24, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on the 23rd local time that the Optimus Prime humanoid robot is still in the experimental stage and could be on the market as early as the end of next year.
In a conference call with investors on Tuesday, Musk predicted that Optimus Prime humanoid robots would be able to perform tasks in the factory by the end of the year, the report said.
Musk believes that of all the humanoid robot manufacturers, Tesla is most likely to achieve mass production.
, ▌ SpecialAccording to the Securities Times, Tesla, who went on a hot search not long ago because of layoffs, has recently attracted attention because of the termination of his contract.
On April 24th, the topic “Tesla was revealed to have broken his appointment as a new graduate” went viral on Weibo.
In pulse, Little Red Book, Weibo and other platforms, a large number of users posted posts mentioning Tesla’s breach of contract.
A pulse user post mentioned that Tesla recently withdrew his employment notice for the class of 2024 and gave him one month’s compensation.
A user post on Little Red Book mentioned that he passed the interview with Tesla on April 7, and the subsequent entry process was gradually over.
But suddenly received a phone call to cancel the training, the entry is also cancelled, the specific entry time to be determined.
On the one hand, Tesla was revealed to have terminated the contract, and on the other, a number of new energy car companies “begged for help online”.
The reporter noticed that under the posts of some terminated users, a number of car companies HR left messages that could be arranged to give priority to interviews for terminated users.
If the account information shows that the users of Weilai HR in Hangzhou say that students who come to Zhejiang Regional School to enroll and get (Tesla) Offer will be given priority to arrange an interview.
Extreme krypton campus recruitment official certification account, also said on the Little Red Book platform, extreme krypton spring recruitment is still in demand, can be pushed inside for terminated users.
, ▌ Tesla self-driving taxi or named Cybercab, IT House, April 24, Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Elon Musk) recently announced that Tesla’s self-driving taxi will be unveiled on August 8.
Apart from this detail, it is mysterious that no other information about the model has yet to be released.
▌ Musk: FSD licensing negotiations are under way with a major automaker and an agreement is likely to be signed this year.
Interface News, April 24, local time, Musk said on an earnings call on April 23 that he was in talks with a major automaker on the licensing of the “fully autonomous driving” system (FSD) and said it was “very likely” to sign a licensing agreement this year.
However, Tesla management mentioned that even if a licensing agreement was reached this year, it would take three years to integrate it into other cars.
▌ India may not offer electric vehicle preferential policies to Chinese companies, according to Indian industry sources, an Indian official said that for national security reasons, India may not provide electric vehicle preferential policies to Chinese car companies such as BYD.
“in this sense, import tariff preferences are related to actual investment, and BYD is not involved because it is unable to provide the foreign direct investment commitments required for preferential policies,” the official said.
This means that if BYD wants to enter the Indian market, it must pay the existing tariff of 70% to 100%.
” The Indian government approved a new electric vehicle policy in March this year, under which companies that invest at least 500 million US dollars to set up production bases in India will receive import tariff concessions.
Companies that set up electric vehicle production facilities will be allowed to import a certain number of cars, and cars priced at $35000 or more will enjoy a 15 per cent lower tariff / import tax within five years from the date of approval.
Earlier, a report by the Global Trade Research Initiative think tank (GTRI), a research institute, warned that the new electric vehicle policy could lead to large-scale entry of Chinese car companies into the local market.
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