EV Morning News ｜ Jia Yueting will set up a personal debt repayment trust to repay domestic debts; Ma Yun and Musk will have a ＂double horse＂ dialogue; Evergrande will launch a new car in March next y
1. 4.57% led the decline, and China and the United States automobile stocks collectively fell.
On August 23rd, US time, US stocks opened lower across the board, with the Dow down 0.48%, the Nasdaq down 0.55% and the S&P 500 index down 0.46%. Oil stocks and auto stocks fell collectively. Among them, Tesla, General Motors and automobiles all fell more than 2% before the market. As of the close of the day, Ford Motor’s share price fell by 2.54%, Tesla’s share price fell by 4.57%, and Ford Motor’s share price fell by 2.54%.
Since December 15th, China has resumed levying tariffs of 25% and 5% on automobiles and parts originating in the United States. According to the current tariff rate of imported cars, after the tariff increase is officially implemented, the tariff on imported cars from the United States entering China will be as high as 40%. At present, American-made imported cars sold in China include Ford, Tesla and other brands.
Source: Economic Observer Network
2. FF exposure will push the partner structure, and a personal debt repayment trust will be set up to repay domestic debts.
On August 26th, people close to Faraday’s future said that Jia Yueting, founder and CEO of FF, was changing the top-level governance structure of FF’s existing company, and would introduce a partner system to hand over the top-level governance of the company to the "partner committee". At the same time, Jia Yueting will also set up a personal debt repayment trust fund as a domestic debt repayment fund. If we want to ensure the landing of the partnership mechanism, Jia Yueting is rumored to resign as global chairman and CEO. It is reported that some people in the automobile industry will join FF and may become CEO.
Source: The Paper.
3. Dong Mingzhu insists on building a car dream: Gree and Weimar sign a strategic cooperation agreement.
On August 23rd, witnessed by Dong Mingzhu, Gree Electric and signed a strategic cooperation agreement. According to the agreement, the two sides will carry out in-depth cooperation in intelligent related fields such as intelligent manufacturing and intelligent interconnection of vehicles, as well as vehicle manufacturing and high-end equipment output, and will jointly explore the possibility of cooperation in channels.
Source: China Fund.
4. The civilian version of Putin’s car will enter the China market, with a basic version of nearly 2 million.
On August 23rd, local time, Russian automobile brand Aurus opened a new store to sell the first luxury car in the post-Soviet era, which will enter the China market.
Since 2013, the Russian government has invested 12.4 billion rubles (about 1.33 billion RMB) in the Aurus luxury car project, and the new car will be jointly produced by the Russian National Automotive Engineering Research Institute (NAMI) and the Russian car company Sollers. According to reports, the basic version of this luxury car is priced at 18 million rubles (about 1.94 million yuan), and the target users include consumers in North America, the Middle East, Europe and China. Denis Manturov, Russian Minister of Industry and Trade, said, "It is expected that similar stores will be opened in China in 2020-2021." It is expected that in 2024-2025, it is expected to launch a hybrid model or model.
Source: Geshi Automobile
5. Ma Yunhe will hold a "double horse" dialogue at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference.
It was learned from the Organizing Committee of the 2019 World Artificial Intelligence Conference that at the opening ceremony of the conference (August 29th), Ma Yun and Musk will have a "double horse" dialogue. The conference will be held in Shanghai from 29th to 31st, with the theme of "Unlimited possibilities in the world of Zhilian".
Source: Yicai. com
6. British hackers stole Tesla for 30 seconds.
On August 23 rd, a few days ago, a surveillance camera in London photographed that two thieves stole a Model S worth 90,000 pounds within 30 seconds.
The video shows that the thief hung a backpack on his chest and held a wire. After that, the Tesla headlights lit up, and the thief accomplices opened the door and drove away smoothly. It is reported that the thief used the traditional electronic relay system, key interference technology and other hacking methods, which not only affected Tesla cars, but also affected all cars that started without keys. Previous reports showed that almost all Tesla vehicles stolen in the United States were recovered: 112 out of 115 vehicles were recovered. Another report released earlier shows that Tesla cars are 90% less likely to be stolen than ordinary cars.
Source: IT house
7, SpaceX test flight starship prototype, residents were told or broken glass.
Recently, residents of Boca Village, Texas received a warning from the Cameron County Emergency Management Office that the prototype test of SpaceX’s starship on August 26th might shatter the window glass of their home. The local government warned that the flight test activities from 4: 00 pm to 4: 15 pm EST (Tuesday morning Beijing time) had the risk that "the SpaceX launch vehicle broke down during the flight, which may lead to an ultra-high pressure event, resulting in broken window glass".
SpaceX is currently developing starships and the next generation of super heavy rockets. Before going to Mars, CEO Musk hopes to build a base on the moon to serve a large number of starships going to Mars. In April of this year, SpaceX had a serious explosion during the manned version of the dragon spacecraft test.
Source: Tencent Technology
8. Evergrande/Koenigsegg will launch new models in March 2020.
Evergrande Health announced at the recent interim results conference that the new model jointly developed by Evergrande and Koenigsegg will be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in March next year.
Koenigsegg Agera 2016 XS
Koenigsegg is a super company headquartered in Sweden. Due to its insistence on handmade production, the company has produced more than 100 cars so far, and the price of bicycles is more than 10 million yuan, and it has been laid out in the fields of lightweight, power drive system, electrification and intelligent driving. On January 29th this year, Evergrande’s National Energy Electric Vehicle Sweden Co., Ltd. (NEVS) signed an agreement with Koenigsegg, and the two parties will set up a joint venture company, in which NEVS holds 65% of the shares and Koenigsegg holds 35%.
Source: car home.
9. The loss in the first half of the year was 178 million, and the automobile released the semi-annual report.
On August 23, Haima Automobile released the 2019 semi-annual report, showing that the company’s cumulative sales in the first half of the year was 14,425 vehicles, down 65.16% year-on-year; Realized sales income of 2.323 billion yuan, down 14.67% year-on-year; The net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies was-178 million yuan, a decrease of 97 million yuan compared with the same period of last year.
In April this year, the stock name of Haima Automobile was changed to "*ST Haima". Less than a month later, Haima Automobile announced the sale of its properties twice, involving nearly 400 properties.
Source: car home.
10. Seventy percent of electric vehicles have potential safety hazards.
Guangdong Institute of Product Quality Supervision, Inspection and Research announced the results of risk monitoring of charging piles for electric vehicles for the first time, and the results showed that 70% of the samples had potential safety hazards. In this risk monitoring, 10 batches of electric vehicle charging pile products from 9 manufacturers were collected, of which 7 batches did not meet the national standard requirements. Risk monitoring found that four items in the sample did not meet the requirements of the national standard, which was easy to catch fire and cause users to get an electric shock.
Source: CCTV News
11. Weilai ET car is postponed to 2022, and the third paragraph will be delivered in the third quarter of next year.
It is planned to deliver the third SUV model in the third to fourth quarter of next year, but the product may not be unveiled at NIO Day this year. At the same time, Weilai is still planning a revised new product based on the first generation platform, which is expected to be delivered in 2021. For ET cars and second-generation platforms, Weilai will be postponed until 2022.
According to Weilai’s plan, the first product of NP2 platform will be released in 2022-2023. Weilai still needs $3 billion in financing before the vehicle is developed. Prior to this, Weilai will build new products based on the existing NP1 platform.
Source: Yiou.com
12. From 2019 to 2023, the compound annual growth rate of the global electric supercar market is nearly 39%.
According to the report released by Technavio, an international market research organization, it is predicted that the global electric supercar market will grow by 6,890 vehicles between 2019 and 2023.
Last year, I.D.R. Pikes Peak, an all-electric supercar, was announced. This car can achieve higher speed than F1 and Formula E models. The major top electric supercar manufacturers in the global market include,, Koenigsegg, Tesla and Volkswagen. The compound annual growth rate from 2019 to 2023 is close to 39%. In terms of types, pure electric supercars will account for the largest share in the forecast period.
Source: New Energy Automobile Network
13. After Wal-Mart, Amazon accused Tesla of solar fire.
On August 26th, it was reported that Wal-Mart was not the only company that caught fire with Tesla solar panels, and Amazon also disclosed similar news last Friday.
Amazon said that in June 2018, a fire broke out on the roof of a warehouse in Redlands, California, involving the solar panel system installed by Tesla SolarCity. Tesla did not immediately comment on this, but the company said earlier on Friday that it had found that the components used by the company in some of its systems were defective.
Source: Sina Technology
14. Volkswagen plans to build 4,000 charging piles in China.
It is reported that audi ag opened the first one for its employees in the German city of Brunswick, which contains 60 charging piles. By 2025, Volkswagen plans to deploy 4,000 charging piles in 10 regions in Germany. At the same time, Volkswagen plans to invest nearly 250 million euros to expand the electric vehicle charging infrastructure throughout Europe.
Source: car home.
15. We will form an alliance with Daimler and BMW again to jointly develop automobiles.
Audi, a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group, will form an alliance with Daimler and BMW to jointly develop advanced self-driving cars, while Volkswagen will continue to cooperate with Ford to develop fully self-driving cars. It is understood that the cooperation between Audi, BMW and Daimler is not the first time. In December 2015, the three companies jointly acquired Nokia’s HD map company Here for US$ 2.76 billion.
Source: Tencent Auto
16. Xiaoma Zhixing joined hands to carry out travel technical cooperation.
On August 26th, Pony.ai officially announced the establishment of cooperation with Toyota. The two sides will jointly explore the further landing of autonomous driving and form a strong alliance in the fields of autonomous driving technology and future travel.
In December 2018, Xiaoma Zhixing released PonyPilot’s self-driving mobile travel project. In June 2019, Xiaoma Zhixing obtained the service qualification of Robotaxi in California. As of April 2019, Xiaoma Zhixing has received a total investment of US$ 300 million from first-class investors such as Sequoia Capital (China), IDG Capital, Junlian Capital, Morningstar Capital, Kaiming Investment, Stowe Capital, etc., with a valuation of US$ 1.7 billion.
Source: China Business News Network