Li Yinan entered the game to build cars, Volkswagen became the largest shareholder of Guoxuan Hi-Tech| the first financial automobile daily review

Niuchuang Automobile released the brand "Self-Traveling Home"

On December 15, Niu Innovation Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Niuchuang Automobile"), founded by Li Yinan, the founder of Xiaoniu Electric, released the English brand "NIUTRON" and the Chinese brand "Self-Traveling Home". Niuchuang Automobile announced that its first product, Youjia NV, will be launched and accepted for pre-order in the first half of 2022, and the delivery will start in September of the same year. Since Youjia Automobile currently has nearly 1,000 core R & D personnel, the brand headquarters is located in Beijing, Shanghai set up a research and development center, and has a modern intelligent manufacturing base covering an area of 770,000 square meters in Changzhou, with an overall design capacity of 180,000 units / year.

Yicai comments: From two-wheeled electric bicycles to four-wheeled passenger cars, Li Yinan's new entrepreneurship can be counted as a "semi-crossover". According to Li Yinan, since 2018, Niuchuang Automobile has begun research and development work, and from the perspective of the research and development cycle, Niuchuang has been at the same level as traditional car companies, slower than new force car companies such as Weilai and Xiaopeng. On the other hand, Li Yinan, who has the aura of "genius teenager" and "Ren Zhengfei successor", most of the success in the past is not only concentrated in the field of communications, but also the sales of one million units of maverick electric bicycles this year, and a variety of other brands of electric automatic vehicles have also more or less appeared in the shadow of mavericks. So in the field of automobiles, can Li Yinan bring some new ways of playing in the industry?

Toyota unveils 16 electric vehicles

Toyota Motor President Akio Toyoda opened a press conference on how Toyota is achieving a "carbon neutrality" strategy at MEGA WEB At the press conference, Toyota unveiled 16 new models (including 5 BZ series models, 4 Lexus models and 7 concept cars). Toyota also announced that it will launch 30 pure electric models by 2030, plans to produce 3.5 million electric vehicles per year, and will invest 8 trillion yen (about 70 billion US dollars) in electrification technology development and equipment investment by 2030, of which 4 trillion yen (about 35 billion US dollars) will be invested in pure electric vehicles, accounting for 50% of the total.

Yicai comments: 16 electric vehicles and 35 billion US dollars of investment, Toyota, which has been "lukewarm" for pure electric, has finally changed? In early December, Volkswagen announced its next five-year plan, in which investment in electrification and software amounted to 89 billion euros, and it seems that Toyota still seems to have some reservations compared to Volkswagen in the All in electric car. Akio Toyoda said at the press conference: "If the energy that powers the car is not clean, then the use of electric vehicles, no matter what type it is, will not lead to zero CO2 emissions." The other category is "carbon-neutral vehicles". Such vehicles use clean energy and achieve ZERO CO2 emissions throughout their use. We at Toyota will do our best to achieve such vehicles. Combined with Toyota's hydrogen fuel cell product lineup at this year's Expo, electric vehicles may only be a choice in Toyota's future technology path."

Volkswagen sales down 31.5%

Recently, the Volkswagen Group announced its november global car sales. In November, Volkswagen's global sales volume was 616,300 units due to chip shortages, down 31.5% year-on-year, the fifth consecutive month of decline. From January to November, the Volkswagen Group's global sales reached 8,168,800 units, down 1.7% year-on-year.

Yicai comments: Judging from the sales data of the sub-region, the sales volume of volkswagen group in regional markets other than Europe and China markets have maintained a rising trend this year, but it is more embarrassing that Western Europe and China are the two largest regional markets of Volkswagen Group, and slight fluctuations in the two places will have a huge impact on the total sales volume of Volkswagen Group. According to data released by volkswagen group, from January to November, sales in China (including Hong Kong) reached 3,028,900 units, down 11.6% year-on-year. At the same time, China is still the largest regional market for volkswagen groups, with sales in China (including Hong Kong) accounting for 37.1% of the group's total sales from January to November.

Volkswagen became the largest shareholder of Guoxuan Hi-Tech

Guoxuan Hi-Tech announced that the company issued a non-public offering of 384 million A-share shares to a specific target public, Volkswagen China, which was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on December 15, 2021. After the completion of the non-public offering of shares, the total share capital of the company increased from 1.665 billion shares, and the above-mentioned changes in share capital caused the shareholding ratio of Li Jian, the actual controller of the company, and his co-actors to change from 23.62% to 18.17%. The shareholding ratio of the company's shareholder, Volkswagen China, increased from 4.41% to 26.47%, becoming the company's largest shareholder.

Yicai comments: SNE Research data shows that the installed capacity of Guoxuan Hi-Tech power batteries reached 0.7GWh in October, ranking 7th in the world. On July 14 this year, Guoxuan Hi-Tech also signed a Memorandum of Understanding on The Strategic Partnership for Batteries with Volkswagen Group, which mentioned that Volkswagen Group will choose Guoxuan Hi-Tech as its strategic supplier of standard batteries if conditions are met. On the other hand, Volkswagen itself is also laying out the production and research and development of power batteries, earlier Volkswagen poached Soonho Ahn, the global head of battery development at Apple, and in mid-December, Volkswagen also announced that it would establish a new battery company, and the new company would integrate related businesses in the battery value chain, from raw material processing to the development and production management of new batteries.