Let's take stock of what major events happened in the automotive circle on December 10, 2021.
Auto Incident 1: Volkswagen invests in a 100GWh wind farm in Sweden
A few days ago, overseas media reported that Volkswagen officially announced that it would invest funds for a wind farm construction project in Sweden in the future as part of a commitment to invest 40 million euros in renewable energy projects in 2025.
The wind farm is planned to be built in the eastern city of Skellefte in Sweden's WestBotten province, under the responsibility of wind farm expert Wed Onshore Aldermyrberget AB. With the help of Volkswagen, the future wind farm will generate a total of about 100 GWh of electricity, which can meet the power supply needs of 27,000 households.
Automobile incident two: the first domestic vehicle-mounted lidar test laboratory was established
On December 9, 2021, the "2nd Intelligent Connected Vehicle Perception Technology Forum" was held in Shanghai. At the meeting, Liangdao Intelligent and Shanghai Motor Vehicle Inspection and Certification Technology Research Center Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Shanghai Auto Inspection) held the unveiling ceremony of the country's first joint laboratory for vehicle-mounted lidar testing.
Shen Jianping, general manager of Shanghai Auto Inspection, said in his speech at the meeting that the perception system is the premise and foundation for realizing automatic driving, and Shanghai Auto Inspection and Liangdao Intelligence jointly established a joint laboratory for vehicle-mounted lidar testing, which is committed to carrying out testing technology research and technical specification formulation of vehicle-mounted lidar. Subsequently, the two sides will work together to solve the test problem of the key link of the perception system.
Automobile incident three: A number of companies have received ORDERs from BYD for 100 million yuan of vehicle specification grade IGBT
On December 9, a person familiar with the matter said that Silan Micro obtained a 100 million yuan IGBT order from BYD, and also received orders from Star Semiconductor, Times Electric, China Resources Micro, etc. As long as the manufacturers imported through BYD verification can almost receive orders. BYD's large-scale order of bicycle regulation-grade IGBTs "on the one hand, BYD's semiconductor production capacity is really tight, on the other hand, in order to compress related party transactions with BYD Group." ”
Auto Incident 4: Geely may launch an online ride-hailing aggregation platform
Recently, according to domestic media, Geely will launch the online ride-hailing aggregation platform "Happy Ten Million Homes", mainly for self-operated compliance capacity, and will also be open to third-party relatively high-quality compliance capacity providers, and the project headquarters is set up in Chongqing.
It is reported that unlike Meituan, AutoNavi and the third party to adopt a relatively loose cooperation model, "Happy Ten Million Homes" mainly promotes compliant transportation capacity, requiring third-party carriers to hold their own vehicles and drivers to join, and the subsidiary of Geely Holding Group responsible for the project will be deeply bound with the main carriers through investment.
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