I believe that Toyota Motor will form a cooperative relationship with domestic BYD Automobile, everyone has heard a little. At that time, many people thought that Toyota simply wanted to purchase blade batteries, but foreign media broke the news that Toyota did not rule out using the three-electric system currently used by BYD EV models.
In the early days, Toyota's internal personnel had already tested AGAIND's related models, and they recognized its shape, quality, and performance, in line with Toyota's long-term pursuit of stable tonality, and then resolutely chose to cooperate with BYD. Of course, Toyota is more concerned about the Chinese market is large enough, the cost of the battery is low enough, can get a better price advantage.
Although China's automobile manufacturing industry started late, our own brands have long been on the right track. As the big brother of the automotive industry, Toyota can choose to cooperate with its own brands, which also shows that the technology of our own brands is gradually recognized by international brands, and even walks in the forefront of the world, such as...
Earlier, Li Yunfei (currently the general manager of BYD's automobile brand and public relations division) revealed on Weibo that "blade batteries go to the world and officially settle in an international brand."
At that time, as soon as the news came out, netizens were speculating about which car brand it would be. In the end, there was no clear response.
However, according to the information declared by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology at that time, the battery pack equipped with the Ford Ruiji PHEV plug-in hybrid version was provided by "Xi'an Zhongdi Lithium Battery Co., Ltd.", which is a subsidiary of BYD, which confirms that Ford Motor is the first car brand to use BYD batteries.
Although the purchase is not the so-called blade battery, it is the beginning of a good cooperation. The battery carried by the Recently released Ford Mustang Mach-E is also provided by BYD (811 ternary lithium battery), although it is still not a blade battery, but it is enough to prove that the cooperative relationship between Ford and BYD is still quite close.
Ford has also said that it will launch more than 30 models or remodeled models in the Chinese market in the next few years, of which electric vehicles account for one-third. Then having a good start also means that it is likely to continue to cooperate in depth, and the probability of using a blade battery will be greater.
If the cooperation between Ford and BYD is not exciting enough, then the partnership between Mercedes-Benz and Geely is enough to attract the attention of consumers. In 2017, the Smart automotive brand officially announced that it will implement a comprehensive transformation and electrification.
It is also this initiative that Mercedes-Benz and Geely have a cooperative relationship, each holding 50% of the shares, and formally established the smart joint venture in 2019.
Smart's first pure electric SUV, smart genie #1, will also become the first work of cooperation between the two sides.
In the future, the new car will also be produced under Geely's SEA haohan architecture, with Mercedes-Benz responsible for the design part and Geely handling the core part.
Once Mitsubishi's cars were invincible, today's Mitsubishi motors sales are sluggish. While GAC-Mitsubishi has not acknowledged that it has begun to lose technical support from Mitsubishi, the shrinking costs and shrinking of its business lines are enough to show all this.
A closer look at the number of models currently sold by GAC Mitsubishi shows that its sales are dismal.
In order to adapt to this era as soon as possible, Mitsubishi chose to invest in GAC Aeon and jointly developed and launched Mitsubishi's first pure electric SUV , Artuka.
Even if the Mitsubishi LOGO is hung, the substrate is actually transformed from AION V, and the core part still belongs to AION.
Finally, our Wuling Baojun automobile, we all know that Wuling automobile is a domestic explosive manufacturing machine, with the people's price and stable three major pieces are deeply loved by the people, from time to time will launch some explosive models.
That is to say, Wuling Baojun Automobile represents the people in our impression. But what is interesting is that the Chevrolet Copache sold in overseas markets is essentially a Wuling Baojun 530 replacement car, equipped with three major pieces that are almost exactly the same as the Baojun 530 sold in China, and the overseas starting price is as high as 230,000 yuan (RMB)...
In fact, Wuling Baojun 530 has another identity in the indian market outside india - MG Hector, which is also based on the foundation of Baojun 530 and has become a hot local model.
The Wuling Baojun 530 car is like the fish in the hands of the people of Shunde, Guangdong, an ordinary fish has evolved into a multi-dish dish, and its value has also risen. Of course, in addition to praising the chefs' superb cooking skills, it is inseparable from the freshness of the ingredients themselves.
The above examples are only the tip of the iceberg, in fact, there are many related cooperation cases that have not been listed, after all, there are really quite a lot.
So the question is, why do international car brands now begin to frequently form close cooperative relations with their own brands? Even giants like Toyota and Mercedes-Benz are involved?
First of all, there is no doubt that the motherland has become stronger, and the speed of China's development in recent years is obvious to all, and as a large country with a population of 1.41 billion, its market is huge. Even if this big cake list is just a small sip of cream in it, it is enough to feel how strong the consumption power of the Chinese people is.
The second is that new energy technology is prominent and stable enough. Through the above cases, have you found that most of the cooperative relationships are almost related to new energy. Judging from the changes in recent years, both the popularity of electric vehicles and the improvement of charging infrastructure are in a far-ahead state.
Not to mention that a number of new car-making forces such as "Wei Xiaoli" have sprung up like mushrooms. In this high-intensity inner volume environment, basically equipped with high-tech per capita, intelligent experience is no longer the key to the core, it has begun to check the defects and fill in the gaps, make up for the past deficiencies, and finally show the complete body in front of consumers, which is the maturity we know.
As a traditional car manufacturer, due to the conservative characteristics, the timing of their layout of new energy is late, and even some car companies do not even have their own pure electric platform. So what is the optimal solution? Of course, choose to cooperate! (Is this familiar)
Win-win is the situation that everyone wants to see most. Perhaps on the surface, basically the core technology is provided by independent brands, which feels very lossy. In fact, the essence of cooperation is mutual benefit, cost can be shared, technology can be shared, each taking what is needed.