What are the major events in the new energy vehicle market this week? On the evening of December 21, the third brand Firefly firefly was officially released on 2024 NIO Day.
The first model has the same name as the brand and locates a high-end smart car.
The new car is priced at 148800 yuan and will be officially launched in April 2025.
The Firefly firefly has three major features, namely, smart driving experience, ingenious space movement and adequate safety.
For smart driving, the Firefly firefly has a turning radius of only 4.
7m and has a full-scene intelligent parking function.
In terms of space, the new car has a 92 L front trunk.
In addition, after the second row of seats are put down, they can be connected with the trunk to form a flat space of over 1250 L.
In terms of safety, the proportion of high-strength steel and aluminum alloy in the car is as high as 83.4%. At the same time, it is equipped with nine airbags and has undergone strict collision tests.
In addition, the new car is also equipped with a number of driving assistance functions to ensure driving safety.
From the whole design concept, Firefly firefly meets the needs of young people for fashionable, personalized and intelligent travel, especially among urban young people.
In addition, the price is also attractive compared with MINI, Smart and other brands.
It is reported that the car will be sold in China and overseas.
Li Bin, founder and chairman of Xilai, revealed in a face-to-face interview with the media that Firefly Firefly will have only one product in the domestic market, but there may be multiple models in the global market.
With the launch of the Firefly firefly brand, all three brands previously planned by Weilai have been collected.
Firefly Firefly will share resources with the main brand in terms of software and hardware resources and charging infrastructure, and the first car will be displayed and sold in the store.
Li Bin said that the positioning of the three brands of Weilai is very clear.
NIO is targeted at the high end of the market, targeting business and family users.
Ledao is aimed at mainstream home market users.
and Firefly firefly positioning boutique cars to serve the needs of the family’s second car.
The success of Firefly fireflies ultimately depends on the feedback of the market and the acceptance of consumers.
If it can be recognized by the market, it will help to increase the sales volume and enhance the influence of the brand.
Song Gang, director of Tesla, resigned, according to Bloomberg and Reuters.
Song Gang, head of Tesla’s Shanghai superfactory, said in a letter to employees, “Today is my last day in Tesla.
I feel very lucky to work and struggle with you at Tesla.
” It is reported that Song Gang submitted its resignation a few months ago and it is not possible to determine the reasons for Song Gang’s departure from Tesla, but people familiar with the matter said Song Gang plans to join a local emerging car brand that is currently in a capacity bottleneck.
Fei Wenjin, who was recently promoted from Tesla quality director to Tesla senior director, will temporarily take over the responsibilities of Song Gang, according to people familiar with the matter.
A representative of Tesla did not respond to a request for comment on the report, and Song Gang himself did not comment.
Song Gang, who worked for the US automakers General Motors and Ford, joined Tesla in 2018 as Tesla’s first employee at his first plant outside the United States.
The source said that Song Gang was the vice president of Tesla manufacturing, and as a member of Tesla’s senior management team in Shanghai, he went to Tesla’s factories in California and Texas in 2022 to participate in plant construction and business planning.
to help solve factory production problems.
Later, he returned to Shanghai to be responsible for the construction of Tesla’s Megapack battery factory.
It is reported that the plant is scheduled to start production in the first quarter of 2025.
It is worth noting that Tesla Shanghai Super Factory is Tesla’s largest output factory, and the cars produced by this factory are also exported to Europe and Southeast Asia.
However, the expansion plan of Tesla’s Shanghai super factory is still on hold.
According to the latest news, Song Gang will join Vision Energy under Vision Technology Group, but Vision Energy Manpower system has not yet shown Song Gang’s position.
Earth comments: the success of Tesla Shanghai Super Factory has made Song Gang a “hot cake”.
The announcement of Song Gang’s new owner still needs to wait for official certification.
Ningde era started the power exchange ecology with nearly 100 partners.
On December 18, at the chocolate power exchange ecological conference, Ningde era launched two kinds of standardized power exchange batteries, and launched the chocolate power exchange ecology together with nearly 100 partners.
Zeng Yuqun, founder, chairman and CEO of Ningde Times, said that by 2030, electricity exchange, home charging and public charging piles will be divided into three parts.
Zeng Yuqun also said: “We will continue to promote the standardization of power exchange, the core is the standardization of battery size.
” Standard refueling, gasoline has 92 and 95, and chocolate power exchange will also use two standard changers, which we name it 20 and 25.
Provide users with personalized services for on-demand power distribution through different amounts of electricity.
” According to Yang Jun, CEO of Ningde era, the lithium iron phosphate version of the 2x replacer has a distribution of 42 kilowatt-hours, corresponding to a range of 400km.
the ternary version is 52 kilowatt-hours, with a range of 500km.
and the ternary version can distribute 56 degrees of electricity with a range of 500km.
the ternary version has a distribution of 70kWh, which can last 600km.
Two standard power changers are suitable for A0 class and Abig B class cars respectively.
For the construction of the power exchange network, the Ningde era already has a clear timetable: 1000 chocolate exchange power stations will be built by themselves in 2025 and will enter Hong Kong and Macao at the same time.
in the medium-term plan, the Ningde era will build 10, 000 stations with all partners.
with the expansion of the power exchange ecology, through the co-construction of the whole society, the scale of the exchange power stations will eventually reach 30, 000.
The standard exchange power station built in Ningde era, which is compatible with vehicles with a wheelbase of 2.
55 m to 3.
1 m, “is the highest wheelbase compatibility in the industry.
” Yang Jun said that each standard exchange power station is equipped with 14-30 battery silos, and the flat efficiency ratio is the highest in the industry.
Such a standard power station can ensure a 99.
99% success rate and a duration of 100 seconds.
In practice, changing electricity is as convenient as refueling, but the cost is greatly reduced.
With the entry of Ningde era, the standardization of power exchange for electric vehicles has stepped onto a historic new level.
With the expansion of the scale of the power station, the good day of power exchange may be coming.
Avita completed round C financing of more than 11 billion yuan and started preparations for IPO.
On the evening of December 17, Avita announced the successful completion of round C financing, with a total amount of more than 11 billion yuan.
Hey, BenRound financing is jointly funded by Changan Automobile, Yufu Fund, Southern Asset Fund, State Investment Fund, BoCom Investment and other strategic and market-oriented investors.
Avita pointed out that with the smooth completion of round C financing, Avita will have more sufficient operating funds to further speed up the follow-up model research and design, brand building, overseas expansion, and so on.
To create a unique and futuristic travel and life experience for more users.
Photo: Avita, meanwhile, Avita has also started preparations for the listing of IPO in 2026.
In the current round of capital increase of Avita, Changan Automobile plans to increase capital by 4.
55 billion yuan, Southern Industrial Asset Management Co., Ltd. (referred to as Southern Asset Management Co., Ltd.) plans to increase capital by 400 million yuan, Chongqing Anyu Private Equity Fund Partnership (limited partnership) (referred to as “Anyu Fund”) plans to increase capital by 2.
8 billion yuan, and Bank of Communications Financial Asset Investment Co., Ltd. (referred to as “Bank of Communications Investment”) plans to increase capital by 700 million yuan.
Other new shareholders plan to increase capital by a total of 2.
65 billion yuan.
After the completion of this capital increase, the shareholding ratio of Changan Automobile remains unchanged, that of Southern assets is diluted from 7.
81% to 6.
34%, that of Anyu Fund is 8.
81%, and that of BoCom Investment is increased from 1.
76% to 3.34%. In addition to the above, other existing shareholders of Avita Technology do not plan to participate in this capital increase.
At present, Avita has a total of Avita 11, Avita 12 and Avita 07 models on sale.
According to official figures, Avita delivered a total of 62539 new cars from January to November, of which 11579 were delivered in November, an all-time high and the second month in a row that more than 10,000 cars were sold.
Avita has recently released the official picture of its fourth model, the Avita 06.
At the same time, Avita is also actively expanding the hybrid product matrix, successively launching the extended range versions of Avita 07 and Avita 12.
Previously, Avita had made it clear that it would sprint sales of 220000 vehicles in 2025.
With the completion of round C financing, more diversified investors can boost external confidence in Avita to a certain extent and help it speed up its listing.
The Zunjie Super Factory was completed, and on December 16, the Zunjie Super Factory jointly built by Jiangqi Group and Huawei was officially inaugurated in Hefei.
Zunjie is a luxury intelligent online electric vehicle brand jointly created by Jiangqi Group and Huawei, and has the highest positioning among Huawei’s four “boundary” plans.
, photo: Jiangqi Group, November 26th, the first product, Zunjie S800, was officially unveiled with an advance price of 1 million-1.
5 million yuan.
Within 48 hours of opening the reservation, the order has reached 2108.
As the first million-class ultra-luxury intelligent electric executive car of its own brand, Zunjie S800 fills the gap in the market of domestic cars in this field.
In order to ensure high quality and mass production, this world-class intelligent factory integrates digital research and development, green and low-carbon intelligent manufacturing, brand experience service and other functions, and the annual output value will exceed 100 billion yuan after reaching production.
The Zunjie Super Factory is equipped with nearly 1500 intelligent robots to realize 100% automation of key processes such as connection, painting and glue painting.
Relying on the digital base of “one cloud, one network, one platform” and C2M mode, open up the integrated application scene of research, production, supply, marketing and service, and realize personalized customization and agile manufacturing of product configuration.
The establishment of carbon footprint management system, the application of green development technology, energy-saving technology, has become the first batch of zero-carbon industrial park in Anhui Province.
extensive use of artificial intelligence technology, set up 86 quality evaluation doors, more than 25000 quality control points to achieve the whole process, traceability, timely quality control to ensure ultra-luxury quality.
In the latest batch of declaration charts made public by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, a declaration map showing respect for boundary S800 appears.
In terms of power, the new car will provide pure electricity and extended range power options, and will provide three-motor and dual-motor options.
In the pure electric model, in the three-motor version, the front motor power is 160kW, and the left and right rear motors are 237.
5kW respectively.
The front motor power of the dual-motor version is 160kW, and the rear motor power is 230kW.
The extended range version of the model will be equipped with the range enhancer of Dongan Power.
In the three-motor version, the front motor power is 160kW, and the left and right rear motors are 237.
5kW respectively.
The front motor power of the dual-motor version is 160kW, and the rear motor power is 230kW.
Global comments: Zunjie S800 represents Chinese consumers’ strong confidence in local high-end car brands, and the follow-up performance is worth looking forward to.
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