It has to be said that China's electric vehicle market pattern is changing too fast.
One of the manifestations is that the number of insurance vehicles on the ideal car in December 2019 was 1011, and two years later, in November this year, their insurance volume was already 13438, more than 13 times.
On December 22, Li Xiang, the founder of Ideal Auto, also posted a sales data chart, writing "24 months challenge for the sales champion of medium and large SUVs", and the comparison with Ideal Car is the sales of many Volkswagen models.
In December 2019, Volkswagen's Touareg and Tuon models totaled 13,173 vehicles, which was 13 times that of the ideal car at that time, but by November 2021, the total number of 4 models of Volkswagen's Touareg, Tuon and ID series was only 12,445. The ideal car successfully surpassed Volkswagen.
In September 2020, Volkswagen CEO Feng Sihan complained about the extended range car solution in public, saying: "From the perspective of a bicycle, the extended range electric vehicle has a certain value, but from the perspective of the whole country and the earth, it is nonsense, the worst solution!" The ultimate goal of developing electric vehicles is to reduce carbon emissions, but if it is to burn fossil fuels to generate electricity, it is not necessary to do so. ”
Vwedman of Volkswagen Group's China R&D department said bluntly: "Even for bicycles, range-extended electric vehicles do not mean much, we have been studying the feasibility of range-extended electric vehicles for several years, and now we are discussing this technology is completely outdated." ”
At that time, the domestic manufacturers of extended-range electric vehicles were represented by ideal cars, and founder Li Xiang was obviously very unconvinced by the words of Volkswagen executives such as Feng Sihan, and he even shouted to have a PK with Volkswagen: "Ideal Automobile is willing to conduct energy-saving and environmental protection comparison tests with Volkswagen's most advanced PHEV."
The matter ended with Feng Sihan not responding. But the competition between the two sides has been ongoing in the electric vehicle industry.
This time the ideal car achieved a counterattack on Volkswagen in terms of sales, and Li wanted to successfully "revenge" after 1 year. After Li wanted to finish his battle record, he wrote: "Thanks for the encouragement, continue to work hard." ”
And the time point when Li wants to release the data comparison between the two sides is also very interesting, Volkswagen China CEO Feng Sihan has just recently reported the news of leaving, Li wants to make Feng Sihan's situation more embarrassing.
Feng Sihan
Feng Sihan came to China at the end of 2018 to become the CEO of Volkswagen China, and he once shouted that He wanted Volkswagen to "become the preferred new energy vehicle brand for Chinese consumers", but at present, in the field of new energy vehicles in China, the sales of Volkswagen ID series are still not comparable to the three companies of "Wei Xiaoli". Volkswagen is still a long way from their stated goals.
As for whether Feng Sihan will go or stay, there are still many unknowns, and at present, he only responds that he will definitely leave China in the future, but the specific time point has not revealed more.