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Do you know? In fact, electric vehicles are not the products of the 21st century, as early as 1900 in the United States, one-third of the cars driving on the street are electric vehicles, why did it disappear later? To this day, what is it that attracts the attention of major tech giants?
The advent of the Industrial Revolution didn't just bring us indoor lighting, efficient looms, radios, and two world wars.
At the same time, it also brought "electric cars" to humanity, and yes, you heard it right, thanks to an inventor from Scotland named Robert Anderson. Between 1832 and 1839, Anderson invented the first electric carriage, and Thomas, a blacksmith from the United States, not to be outdone, built the first universal electric car.
Moreover, the car's battery can be replaced, just like today's Nio cars, and then inventors from the United Kingdom, France and the United States have joined the race to launch various improved versions of electric vehicles.
However, people's enthusiasm for electric vehicles did not last long, and with the advent of gasoline engines, electric vehicles gradually declined.
Until 2020, Tesla is out of the circle, and electric vehicles have once again returned to people's eyes, whether it is Volkswagen on the other side of the ocean, Daimler's old car-making forces, or technology giants such as Apple and Huawei, who have joined the "car-making army".
It is reported that Apple also hopes to launch a fully autonomous electric vehicle before 2025, although Huawei said it will not directly build cars, but it also has ideas in this regard. Why do the giants in the field of technology and the Internet want to build cars?
The first and most obvious point is the general trend, coupled with the support of policies. In recent years, the world has paid more and more attention to climate change, and many countries have given carbon neutrality timetables.
Carbon neutrality is the term of energy conservation and emission reduction, which refers to the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions directly or indirectly generated by enterprises, groups or individuals in a certain period of time, through afforestation, energy conservation and emission reduction, etc., to offset their own carbon dioxide emissions, that is, to make carbon dioxide emissions "offset".
At the end of June 2020, China put forward the goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2060, which is very beneficial to the development of new energy vehicles.
Moreover, in China's "New Energy Vehicle Industry Development Plan", it is mentioned that by 2025, the proportion of new energy vehicle sales will increase from the current 5% to 20%.
In addition, countries around the world have also introduced a timetable for banning the sale of gasoline and diesel vehicles, which has added favorable conditions to the promotion of new energy vehicles.
The second point is that electric vehicles can carry more cutting-edge technologies, and we see that under the leadership of Tesla and Weilai Automobile, electric vehicles are not just a car, more often, it is like a "supercomputer".
Because in today's electric vehicles, there are not only 5G, artificial intelligence, big data, semiconductors, but also lidar, image recognition and even new materials.
Therefore, whether it is the new and old forces that make cars, or the giants in the fields of technology and the Internet, they do not want to miss this historic opportunity.
Of course, there is a third point, that is, the innovation of the future business model, when the Emergence of Apple's mobile phone not only changed the competitive landscape of the mobile phone industry, but also created a unique business model.
Then, today's electric vehicles are more promising to create more brand-new business models, especially attractive autonomous driving technology.
Finally, many technology companies have played a role in the automotive field, and for decades, electronics companies have been designing and manufacturing various auto parts, such as audio systems, console interfaces, etc.
For an electronics company, trying an internal combustion locomotive is bound to be very arduous and not a wise move, but electric vehicles use lithium batteries, and companies such as Apple and Foxconn are already familiar with it.
In addition, electric motors are more familiar to electronics companies, not to mention these power systems, far less complex than the internal combustion engine, which has a lot of the same "DNA" as mobile phones.
Apple and Huawei, black ash has become the "terminator of the automotive industry", we do not know yet, but one thing that can be determined is that new energy vehicles like electric Venucia, replacing traditional fuel vehicles is an inevitable event.
Now in the new energy automobile industry, the two major technical problems are nothing more than chips and batteries, and I believe that with the continuous progress of science and technology, these two problems will eventually be overcome.
Finally, I think the technology giants have joined the car-making army, in addition to the above-mentioned ones, but also in order to be able to make themselves in the future, have more possibilities, after all, the immutable existence will not last long, in order to gain a firm foothold in the field, we must continue to innovate and seek opportunities, what do you think about this?