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Two months ago, when the epidemic first started, I was optimistic that April should be over, and I didn't think that April was your lie.
Author 丨 Luo Chao
Responsible editor 丨 Yang Jing
Editor 丨Zhu Jinbin
Isolated at home for more than 10 days, idle to open the photo album, want to see what this time last year is doing, do not know, a tear two lines. At this time last year, I was walking on the 318 National Highway with the company's small partner, exotic scenery, unlimited beauty, tired is tired, but can not stand the curiosity and freedom of this road.
Fast forward to a year, the days of home isolation are longer than expected, the alarm at 5 o'clock is noisier than imagined, and the greeting between friends has changed from "have you eaten" to "Do you still have food" than you think.
Two months ago, when the epidemic first started, I was optimistic that April should be over, and I didn't think that April was your lie. The situation now is, at my hand speed, I haven't grabbed the dish yet, but fortunately my roommate is strong enough, he really, I cry to death.
Unfortunately, Shanghai's auto industry does not seem to be as lucky as I am, And Shanghai's "silence" has affected the upstream and downstream industrial chains, after which SAIC Volkswagen, Tesla, Aptiv and other OEMs and parts suppliers have been forced to suspend production.
The impact continues, and Weilai has become the next "victim". Recently, Weilai said on its official APP that since March, due to the impact of the epidemic, the company's supply chain partners in Jilin, Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places have stopped production one after another and have not yet recovered. Affected by this, WEILAI's vehicle production has been suspended. Due to the above reasons, many users' vehicles will be delayed in the near future.
"Grabbing" parts is nothing more than worse for Weilai. In the past March, Wei realized the delivery of 9,985 new vehicles, although it continued to maintain a year-on-year increase of 37.6%, but it has fallen out of the top three of the new forces.
This suspension of production will definitely have a direct impact on weilai's delivery in the next period of time. Originally according to the normal delivery speed, it is not surprising that Weilai will most likely usher in the milestone of 200,000 vehicles in April, but now there is a sudden accident, chip shortage superimposed supply chain crisis, and everything is full of unknowns.
At present, the optimistic expectation of industry insiders is that production can be resumed at the end of April, and it is hoped that this time it will no longer be a "lie". Keeping an eye on the supply of parts and components and logistics dynamics every day also seems to have become the "top priority" of a group of enterprises such as Weilai, after all, the risk of "food shortage" can not be afforded.
Some people are hindered in their progress, and some people are catching up. At the end of last month, in Xiaomi Automobile's 2021 financial report, the latest progress of car manufacturing was disclosed: the R& D team of Xiaomi Car has exceeded 1,000 people, and the first car will be mass-produced in the first half of 2024.
Just the day before, Xiaomi's internal executives had revealed to the outside world that Xiaomi's engineering prototypes would be unveiled in the third quarter of this year. He said that the car is the last link to form the closed loop of Xiaomi Home, and the engineering sample car will definitely break through everyone's imagination.
It has been a full year since Xiaomi announced the construction of cars, from large-scale expansion to the construction of factories in the Beijing Economic Development Zone, Xiaomi is constantly accelerating its pace. In the face of the turbulent new energy market environment, the competition for time and space is crucial, whether it is Xiaomi's internal or external industries are "anxious" for Xiaomi cars.
In fact, from the progress bar alone, the set of cars in the same period is still much faster than Xiaomi in terms of layout speed. But after all, car building is a huge system project, a slight difference in the pool will be doomed, although Lei Jun bluntly said "can afford", but the cost is too large.
This makes people even more full of expectations for Xiaomi's first car. Recently, the first patent project of Xiaomi Automobile was exposed, perhaps, we can get a glimpse of the appearance of Xiaomi Car from the patent to see what step Xiaomi has made in making cars.
The patent name is the control method, device and readable storage medium of the multiphase motor. It is reported that the method will obtain the current position of the rotor in the case of phase-deficient fault of the multiphase motor, determine the target area to which it belongs, and control the multiphase motor according to the corresponding control strategy of the target area.
To put it bluntly, this is a technology that improves the fault tolerance of the motor, which in turn improves the reliability of the electric drive system.
The technology, while not stunning, has received a lot of attention. The important reason is that most of the previous relevant patents of Xiaomi Automobile are concentrated in the fields of automatic driving and intelligent cockpit.
For xiaomi, the "old cannon of the Internet", with the support of abundant funds, software-level research and development will definitely be its strength, and most people will not doubt it. In fact, some data estimates say that the total number of patents in wireless communication networks, data processing, digital information transmission, image communication and other related fields of Xiaomi Automobile has exceeded 800, worth 100 million US dollars, while Tesla's valuation is 200 million US dollars.
Therefore, aside from the accumulation of technology at the software level, at the "unfamiliar" hardware level, how Xiaomi can perform may better reflect the overall quality of Xiaomi cars, which is related to success or failure.
Earlier, a parts supplier disclosed that after Xiaomi Auto released its first new car in 2024, it will also release a new car every year in the next three years, with a cumulative sales target of 900,000 vehicles for three years.
No one knows what will happen in the future, just like Musk said that he wanted to subvert aviation before, and he was also questioned about the dream, but Musk's excellence is that he is not only fantastic, but also good at practice.
Recently, SpaceX, a space exploration technology company owned by Musk, has once again written history, and its "Dragon" spacecraft carried 4 passengers to complete the docking with the International Space Station. This is undoubtedly a milestone moment, which means that the International Space Station has ushered in the first "all-private" and "all-commercial" space travel in history.
It is worth noting that perhaps the purpose of this flight is not simply to complete commercial space travel, but also carries Axiom Space's ambition to use Musk's SpaceX to complete the construction of a commercial space station. According to US media reports, this flight is the pathfinder of the future commercial space station, and by the end of this century, one or more commercial space stations will take over from the International Space Station.
According to the plan, Axiom Space plans to build a prototype space station on orbit from 2024, and it is expected to build it into a self-sufficient commercial space station in 5 years, which can be replaced once the NASA International Space Station is decommissioned.
And, Axiom Space's next private spaceflight will take place in 2023. Then one would ask, what is the cost? First of all, you have to have 55 million US dollars (about 350 million yuan) of ticket fees, that bothers, I still have to suppress the desire for stars in my heart, grab the dish and then talk about it...
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