▌ News, ▌ Federation: the retail penetration rate of new energy in China is 50.
39% from the 1st to 14th of this month, with more than half of retail and wholesale sales.
On April 17, the Federation released a report on the car market for the period from April 7 to 14.
In terms of the total number of passenger cars, the figures are as follows: from April 1 to 14, retail sales in the passenger car market were 516000, down 11% from the same period last year and 3% from the same period last month.
Retail sales have totaled 5.
348 million so far this year, up 10 per cent from the same period last year.
For new energy vehicles, the figures are as follows: from April 1 to 14, retail sales of new energy vehicles were 260000, an increase of 32% over the same period last year and 2% over the same period last month.
Retail sales have totaled 2.
032 million so far this year, up 34 per cent from the same period last year.
According to statistics, between the 1st and 14th of this month, the proportion of retail sales of new energy vehicles was (260000 / 516000), about 50.
39%, and the wholesale proportion of new energy vehicles was (268000 / 534000), about 50.19%. This means that during this period, the wholesale and retail penetration rate of China’s new energy vehicles has both exceeded 50%.
▌ due to pressure from the United States, Mexico will not provide investment incentives to Chinese tram manufacturers.
Reuters quoted three Mexican officials as saying on the 18th that because of pressure from the United States, the Mexican government will have to distance itself from Chinese car companies and not provide incentives such as low-cost public land or tax breaks to electric car factories they invest in.
Chinese brands account for nearly 1/3 of Mexico’s total car sales, and a number of Chinese automakers, including BYD, have been revealed to be in talks with Mexico about location.
The last meeting between senior Mexican officials and Chinese carmakers was in January, with BYD executives, according to the official familiar with the matter.
It is reported that at this meeting, Mexican officials made it clear that they would not provide incentives to car companies as they did in the past, and that officials would suspend any future meetings with Chinese car companies.
The three Mexican officials familiar with the matter believe that the move by senior Mexican officials is due to pressure from the US government, especially the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), which has been demanding that Chinese automakers be excluded from the free trade zone established under the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement).
▌ Zhou Hongyi talks about car building: smart cars will also usher in its “GPT moment”, according to Gronghui.
Recently, Zhou Hongyi, founder of 360 Group, did a high-end interview on “Dr.
Gelon Parlor”.
Talking about the future opportunities for Nahan cars, Zhou Hongyi said that the future cars are divided into three stages: the first stage is to build electric cars, and this competition pattern has basically been determined.
the second stage is intelligent network-connected cars represented by intelligent cockpits, which can also be called smart cars 1.0. the third stage is intelligent cars 2.
0 with artificial intelligence and large models.
In the future, cars will have higher and higher requirements for intelligence, including using large models to solve the problems of autopilot and intelligent cockpit, so that cars can have a soul, a brain and better interaction with people.
Smart cars will also usher in its “GPT moment”.
Referring to the current competition in the domestic new energy vehicle market, Zhou Hongyi said that Nahu Automobile was set up to build cars for the people, with equal rights in science and technology.
3060 as an investor, it complements it in terms of safety and intelligence, coupled with performance-to-price ratio.
I believe that Nahu Automobile will still have its place in the future.
▌ domestic, ▌ ideal L6 officially launched, starting from 249800 yuan, April 18, ideal L6 officially launched, the new car launched a total of Pro and Max two configuration models, the price range is 24.
98-279800.
The new car is a five-seat medium and large extended-range SUV, which is positioned under the ideal L7, the L6 is the luxury five-seater SUV, and the L7 is the flagship five-seater SUV.
Ideal L6 is based on the ideal second-generation extended-range platform, which took three years of research and development, with a total investment of more than 2 billion yuan.
In terms of vehicle size, the ideal L6 has a length, width and height of 4925/1960/1735mm and a wheelbase of 2920mm.
The order starts immediately after 21:00 on April 18, with a deposit of 5000 yuan and can be refunded within 7 days.
Users who order from April 18 to May 5 will enjoy the reservation rights with a total price of 20, 000 yuan.
Low-volume delivery of the ideal L6 will begin next week and high-volume delivery of the ideal L6 will begin in May.
▌ new M5 pre-sale 12-hour cumulative order of more than 10, 000 units, the first electric news, April 17, the new M5 opened a reservation.
On the evening of April 17, Hongmeng Zhixing official Bo announced that the cumulative order for the new M5 pre-sold for 12 hours exceeded 10,000 units.
At present, book the new MJ M5 before the launch on April 23, enjoy a deposit of 2000 yuan against the preferential policy of 5000 yuan for car purchase, and small order users can give priority to pick up the car.
The overall shape of the new car has not changed much, and will be upgraded and optimized for vehicle configuration and intelligent driving assistance.
It is reported that the new car will be officially launched on the eve of the opening of the Beijing Auto Show on April 23.
▌ Xiaomi refutes the rumor that the “tripartite bidding” approach to the SU7 Smart Drive is a pure rumor.
On the evening of April 18, Xiaomi updated the latest issue of “Xiaomi SU7 to answer netizens’ questions.
” In response to the rumors that Xiaomi’s mid-and low-level scheme will adopt tripartite bidding, Xiaomi said that it was a complete rumor and insisted on the full self-research program from the beginning of the project.
Xiaomi Intelligent driving has two programs, including Xiaomi Pilot Pro and Xiaomi Pilot Max, and the two schemes have the same technology, and are all based on Xiaomi’s self-developed intelligent driving technology, all supporting the experience of leading intelligent driving assistance functions.
According to people’s Daily online, ▌ Chery has set up a joint venture with Spanish companies to build a factory there, according to people’s Daily online.
Spanish Industry and Tourism Minister Jordi Ereu met with representatives of Chery Motor and Spain’s Ebro-EV Motor Company on April 17.
He said that Chery’s investment in Spain “is good news”, which will “strengthen” Spain’s international position in the auto industry.
EV Motor and the Spanish government of Catalonia said recently that Chery has signed an agreement with Spain’s EV Motors to form a joint venture that will take over Nissan’s former factory in Barcelona, Reuters reported.
According to EV Moter, Chery will first produce OModa models at the plant later this year, and EV Moter will produce cars under its own brand in the fourth quarter.
When the plant opens, it will restore 1600 jobs previously closed due to the shutdown of Nissan.
It is understood that the two sides will reach a formal agreement this Friday.
The joint venture will take the lead in producing Chery Omoda models at local factories, followed by EV Motors products in the fourth quarter of this year.
▌ Guangzhou established the nation’s first in the university city.
A low-altitude economic application demonstration island started the construction of flying vehicle infrastructure, Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily reported that the people’s Government of Panyu District of Guangzhou City signed a “Framework Agreement on jointly promoting Flying vehicle Application demonstration” with Xiaopeng Huitian on April 18, and jointly issued a list of flying vehicle application scenarios and announced the start of flying vehicle infrastructure construction.
The Agreement proposes that the first batch of plans will be to build four flying vehicle take-off and landing sites in the university town (located in Xiaoguwei street, covering an area of 34.
4 square kilometers), supporting infrastructure such as flying vehicle take-off and landing, parking, energy replenishment, communications, etc.
, which will lay the foundation for further application demonstrations such as “low altitude + commuting”, “low altitude + tourism”, “low altitude + emergency” and so on.
Guangzhou University City will be built into the country’s first low-altitude economic application demonstration island.
▌ China FAW and Dajiang vehicle held the signing ceremony of intelligent driving strategy, first Electric News, on April 18, at the Fifth Science and Technology Conference of China FAW Group, China first Automobile Group Co., Ltd. and Dajiang vehicle formally signed a strategic cooperation agreement, the two sides will carry out in-depth cooperation in intelligent driving.
It is reported that Dajiang car is the intelligent driving “service + supply” new Tier1 (first-class supplier of car factory).
DJI has cooperated with many car companies, and it is expected that more than 20 models will be equipped with DJI’s smart driving system by the end of 2024.
Earlier, it was reported that Huawei was in close contact with FAW Group to promote Huawei’s intelligent technology.
On November 28 last year, at the launch of Wisdom S7 and Huawei’s full scene of cooperation between Huawei and Chery, Huawei Yu Chengdong even said publicly that “powerful car companies are welcome to join the split cooperation of car BU, such as FAW.
” Especially Huawei has won Changan and Dongfeng two major central enterprises, many people believe that both central enterprise groups, Huawei won FAW Group is a certainty.
Even when the outside world thinks that Huawei FAW is close to a good thing, the incident has ushered in a reversal today.
, ▌ exposed that Weilai Motor will implement the second round of layoffs.
Phoenix New Media Technology News, April 18, according to EV, Xilai Motor has begun to inform the Chinese team of the second round of layoffs and held meetings with its team in China to cope with market pressure and declining sales.
The human resources department of Weilai China will hold a meeting in the next few days, but is not sure the extent of the layoffs or the specific terms.
According to previous reports, in November last year, Li Bin issued a full letter saying that the company’s personnel would be optimized by 10%, and that projects that did not improve financial performance within three years would be postponed and cut to ensure the company’s long-term competitiveness.
In December, there were media reports that Lai Motor would expand the proportion of layoffs.
in response, Weilai said that there were no further layoffs.
▌ Geely’s first full-size SUV will be unveiled at the Beijing Auto Show.
According to Zhitong Financial News, Geely announced its participation information at the 2024 Beijing Auto Show on April 18.
Among them, Geely Galaxy, the mid-and high-end new energy series of Geely brand, will launch Geely’s first full-size SUV prototype car at the auto show.
It is reported that this model positioning technology flagship SUV, based on the new AI intelligent architecture, innovative design language development, will be the first to build a new AI interactive technology, open the intelligent vehicle “space computing era”, and will apply the latest self-developed three electricity technology to cope with the increasingly fierce new energy market.
▌ Lei Jun revealed that Xiaomi self-developed motor V8s was on board at the end of the year, and the 27200rpm speed was the first in the industry.
In the live broadcast on the afternoon of April 18, Lei Jun revealed that Xiaomi self-developed motor V8s is expected to be launched by the end of the year, but the specific model has not been announced yet.
At the Xiaomi automobile technology conference held in December last year, the Xiaomi supermotor V8s was officially released, claiming to be the fastest speed in the world in the 27200rpm.
The motor has the maximum horsepower of 578PS, the peak power of 425kW, the peak torque of 635N ·m, the highest efficiency of 98.
11% and the power density of 10.
14kW / kg.
The motor industry’s first 960MPa special silicon steel sheet, full self-developed stator and rotor design, two-way all-oil cooling, S-type three-dimensional oil circuit design, 54 slot 6-pole design, 8-layer Hairpin flat wire winding, slot full rate 77%.
Xiaomi also revealed that the company’s laboratory has pre-developed 35000rpm speed motors.
▌ Lei Jun: let’s not talk about cost-effective pure electric cars in an industry with huge losses.
On April 18, some netizens thought that Xiaomi SU7 was not cost-effective enough.
Lei Jun responded in the studio that pure tram companies basically do not make money, and one lost more than a hundred thousand yuan.
“Don’t talk about performance-to-price ratio in an industry with huge losses.
Pure electric cars are basically lossmaking.
” In addition, Lei Jun also revealed in the studio that he plans to open the Xiaomi car factory so that ordinary people can visit and learn about the latest level of intelligent car manufacturing in China.
However, Lei Jun also said that this may take some time to prepare.
Wei Jianjun, ▌ Lei Jun Live connection: Xiaomi can’t make an off-road vehicle, Fast Science and Technology News.
At 16:00 on April 18, Lei Jun, founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Group, started the live broadcast on time at the Beijing Xiaomi Automobile delivery Center, which instantly attracted more than 100000 viewers.
During the live broadcast, Lei Jun also connected with Wei Jianjun, chairman of Great Wall Motor.
Wei Jianjun said, “Xiaomi Automobile is one of the representatives of electric vehicles, and it has been very impressive to be able to do this in three years.
” At the same time, Lei Jun revealed that although the model planning can not be disclosed, but it is certain that “Xiaomi will not do off-road vehicles.
” 
, Zhou Hongyi, founder of ▌ 360, shouted that competitors offered “experience cars”.
Xiaopeng responded: the car has been delivered to the downstairs of the company.
On the evening of April 18th, Xiaopeng posted on its official Weibo that it had sent Xiaopeng X9 to the downstairs of the company.
Zhou Hongyi is welcome to have an in-depth experience.
Earlier today, Zhou Hongyi posted a video message saying that he had decided to sell the Maybach 600 and replace the new car with a domestic smart car, and shouted that competitors would provide “experience cars.
” When Li Bin asked if he wanted to use the Weilai car, Zhou Hongyi declared: “I don’t want to take advantage of my competitors.
I’m welcome to have a test drive.
I’ll take each one for a week to see which one is the best.
” , 
, ▌ SAIC General Aut can join the Weilai replenishment Cooperation Network, SAIC General Motors official WeChat reported on April 18 that from now on, more than 10,000 charging terminals will be added to join the SAIC GM Orteergy Cooperation Network.
New energy vehicles under SAIC GM’s Cadillac and Buick brandsCar users can view the location and price of the charging pile in real time through the charging map function of the corresponding brand App.
Up to now, there are more than 600000 cooperative charging terminals in the country, and the coverage rate of prefecture-level cities is nearly 100%.
Officials said that in addition to the first cooperation between car companies and Tesla in China last year, the cooperation with Lulai car charging company will be increased from now on.
▌ released the industry’s first AIPC personal agent, which contains a variety of core applications, according to the Securities Times.
Lenovo Xiaotian, the industry’s first AIPC personal agent, was officially launched at the Lenovo Innovation and Technology Conference on April 18, and released more than a dozen core applications, including AI painter, AIPPT, document summary, intelligence society, etc.
Lenovo Xiaotian is a user-specific “personal agent”, driven by the local Tianxi model, which brings a new AI experience in many scenes such as work, study and life through natural interaction.
At the same time, with the help of users’ local documents, Lenovo Xiaotian can constantly deepen the understanding and understanding of users, so as to provide more accurate and personalized services.
▌ International, ▌ EU car sales in March recorded the biggest decline in 16 months, pure electric car market share fell to 13% from 14% in the same period last year.
According to the European Association of Automobile Manufacturers, EU car sales fell the biggest in 16 months in March, and Tesla’s new car registration in the EU fell 30% in March.
EU pure electric vehicle registrations fell 11 per cent to 134400 in March, while EU pure electric vehicle market share fell to 13 per cent from 14 per cent in the same period last year.
▌ Volvo signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation with Ningde Times, Volvo Automobile Group official WeChat reported on April 18, April 16, Volvo announced the signing of a memorandum of strategic cooperation with Ningde Times, the two sides will carry out in-depth cooperation in the field of battery cycle closed-loop management.
According to the agreement between the two sides, in the future, Volvo cars will recycle retired batteries from new energy vehicles sold in the market, as well as batteries scrapped during factory production.
Volvo certified downstream suppliers will disassemble and extract more than 90% of the waste batteries, such as nickel, cobalt, lithium and other metal materials.
Ningde Times will use these newly extracted recycled materials to produce new batteries and use them in the production of new Volvo cars.
▌ Bosch warning: further cost cuts and layoffs, German auto parts supply giant Bosch warned on April 18 that it would further cut costs and layoffs, and predicted that car production would stagnate, which would limit profit margins in 2024.
Markus Forschner, Bosch’s chief financial officer, said at the company’s news conference: “for 2024, we don’t expect any economic downwind.
Restructuring and process improvement can also have a negative impact at the beginning, and only after a period of time will it have a positive impact.
” Forschner said that at a time when most large peers, such as Continental and ZF, have announced layoffs, layoffs are necessary to ensure Bosch remains competitive and any layoffs will be carried out in a measured manner.
But he did not specify how many of Bosch’s more than 420000 employees would be affected.
▌ Musk: Tesla’s severance payment to some laid-off employees is “too low” and will be corrected, according to IT Home News.
An internal email sent by Tesla CEO Elon Musk on April 17 local time said that the company’s severance payment to some laid-off workers this week was too low.
“when we were restructuring, I noticed that some of the severance payments were too low,” Musk said.
I apologize for this mistake and am correcting it immediately.
” Tesla didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Tesla said on April 15 that it would cut more than 10 per cent of jobs worldwide.
By the end of 2023, its total number of employees is about 140000.
The company gave few details of the layoffs, but in a company-wide memo sent on April 15, Mr Musk said the cuts would help “prepare the company for the next phase of growth”.
▌ US electric car maker Rivian laid off staff again, aiming to achieve gross profit by the end of the year.
On April 17, electric car maker RIVIAN said it would cut about 1% of its staff to reduce costs amid a general slowdown in demand in the electric vehicle market, Reuters reported.
“this is a difficult decision, but it is a necessary decision to support our goal of achieving a positive gross margin by the end of the year,” RIVIAN said in an email to Reuters.
The company added that the layoffs focused on employees providing supportive jobs.
It is reported that this is the second round of layoffs for RIVIAN this year.
In February, the company said it would cut 10 per cent of its salaried jobs to cut costs and make profits faster.
At the time, the company also said it expected its electric vehicle production this year to be much lower than expected due to factory upgrades and slowing demand for electric vehicles caused by high interest rates, disappointing investors.
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