Not long ago, Huawei released the first Hongmeng automobile AITO Q&I M5, AITO is a new brand of Xiaokang Xilis, and Q&I M5 is the first smart car equipped with HarmonyOS smart cockpit, under the appeal of Huawei brand, this new car has attracted a lot of attention.
The performance of the Q&I M5 is also worthy of recognition, this car has been booked more than 6500 units in just 96 hours after the release, from which it can be seen that the field of new energy vehicles is indeed a blue ocean.
In addition to Huawei's car, another technology giant with mobile phones as the carrier of Xiaomi has also announced to enter this field, in March 2021, Xiaomi founder Lei Jun announced in a high-profile manner that he would enter the field of car manufacturing, and bluntly said that car manufacturing is the last time in his life.
Different from Huawei's way of empowering traditional car companies, Xiaomi is building its own cars and building its own factories, planning to continue to invest 10 billion US dollars in car manufacturing over ten years, and the first car is expected to roll off the production line and achieve mass production in 2024.
On the one hand, technology companies have successively entered the field of new energy vehicles, on the other hand, the sales of new car-making forces and traditional car companies have grown strongly, and the production and sales in 2022 are expected to exceed 3 million vehicles.
More critically, in the context of the era of carbon peaking in 2030 and carbon neutrality in 2060, the new energy automobile industry will have huge development prospects, so in such a fiercely competitive market, there are still many new players entering the game.
Recently, Niu Innovative Energy Technology Co., Ltd., founded by Li Yinan, former vice president of Huawei, officially announced that it will enter the field of new energy vehicles and is expected to achieve mass production in September 2022, with the English name "NIUTRON" and the Chinese named "Self-Traveling".
Li Yinan's resume is very rich, he was the youngest vice president in Huawei's history, deeply appreciated by Ren Zhengfei, and even inside and outside agreed that Li Yinan is Ren Zhengfei's successor, but history has not been staged as people imagine.
Li Yinan is a part-time worker in Huawei after all, so he founded a company called Harbor Network and began to confront Huawei in the fields of routers and ether switches, but some improper means also made Li Yinan wear the hat of Huawei's "traitor".
But "newborn calf" Li Yinan, how can he beat the scheming Ren Zhengfei, under Huawei's ferocious counterattack, the harbor network was eventually acquired by Huawei, so Li Yinan's first entrepreneurship completely failed.
Later, Li Yinan returned to Huawei as vice president, and successively held important positions in Baidu and China Mobile, until the establishment of Xiaoniu Electric Vehicle in 2015, which made a name in the field of electric vehicles.
But unfortunately, in 2017, Li Yinan was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for insider trading, but even the prison disaster did not extinguish Li Yinan's entrepreneurial passion, so Li Yinan, who was released from prison, aimed at the new energy vehicle track after the Maverick electric car.
After more than 3 years of preparation, Niuchuang Technology has finally entered the field of new energy vehicles, but Li Yinan wants to make some achievements in this track, and the difficulty is probably more difficult than the competition with Huawei in the field of telecommunications.
First of all, the problem of funds, new energy vehicles themselves are a money-burning project, such as Xiaomi entering the field, the first phase of investment of 10 billion yuan, planned to invest 10 billion US dollars in 10 years, and "electric three fools" Weilai, ideal, Xiaopeng comparison, Li Yinan is even more lost on the starting line.
The second is the team shortcomings, Xiaomi automobile team set up a team of more than 500 people at the beginning, and the electric three fools have a team of thousands of people, in contrast, Li Yinan, who has been preparing for 3 years, has now formed a team of more than 1,000 people.
Then there is the lack of technology, it is difficult for a small team to make big waves, because its core technology is difficult to keep up with the progress of the times, so Niuchuang Technology can not build its own factory, and currently only rents the office building and factory of Mahayana Automobile.
In the context of no technical support, Niuchuang Technology estimates that it is difficult to get supplier goods, such as battery suppliers such as Ningde Times and chip suppliers such as Qualcomm, and will definitely give priority to cooperation with car companies that have formed a scale.
It can be seen from this that Li Yinan wants to make achievements in the field of new energy vehicles, which is indeed tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack, of course, Li Yinan's spirit of continuous entrepreneurship and never-say-die is still very worthy of our learning.
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