■ On December 24, Lei Jun released Weibo to expose the relevant content of Xiaomi's December 28 conference in advance, including: In order to benchmark Apple, the Xiaomi digital series will be divided into "one big and one small" two-size flagship models; Xiaomi will continue to promote the research and development of surging chips; Xiaomi cars are expected to be mass-produced in the first half of 2024.
■ On December 25, He Xiaopeng, chairman and CEO of Xiaopeng Motors, said when attending the CCTV "Dialogue Challenger" column that the most important thing in car manufacturing is balance, and now the balance strategy adopted by Xiaopeng Motors is to first lower the requirements of profits, and use three to four years to gradually achieve gross profit recovery, focusing on technology, design and commodity scale.
■ On December 24, BYD announced that BYD Automotive Industry and Daimler intend to increase the capital of Denza New Energy by 1 billion yuan in monetary terms according to the proportion of shareholding. After the completion of the capital increase, BYD Automotive And Daimler will continue to hold 50% of the equity of Denza New Energy, respectively.
■ The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday that Tesla will no longer allow video games to be played on the center console while the car is driving.
■ On December 26, the first batch of 200 Beta Experience Editions of Zhiji L7 was officially delivered at saic motor's Lingang Intelligent Factory, and the "urban parade" in 9 cities across the country was launched simultaneously.
■ On December 25, Zero Run Motors said that the new Zero Run T03 will be renewed on December 28.
■ On December 24, Ding Xiaohua, deputy director of the Shanghai New Energy Vehicle Public Data Acquisition and Monitoring Research Center, said that it is expected that the penetration rate of new energy vehicles in Shanghai's new car sales will reach 60%-70% in 2025, and the number of new energy vehicles will exceed 1.5 million.
■ Picture: Blue Whale Automobile reported on December 24 that the Buick brand of General Motors Group has registered the "ELECTRA" trademark overseas, indicating that Buick Electra may achieve mass production in the future.
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