Daily: Mercedes-Benz released sales in 2021, and Tesla FSD will rise to $12,000

Mercedes-Benz announces 2021 sales: demand remains strong, and 8 electrified models are pushed in China this year to help carbon neutralize

Mercedes-Benz has announced its 2021 global and Chinese market results. In 2021, Mercedes-Benz will deliver 2.4 million new vehicles worldwide in passenger and light commercial vehicles. Deliveries in the Chinese market were 758,863 units, down 2 percent. Jan Madeja, president and CEO of Beijing Mercedes-Benz Sales Service Co., Ltd., said that mercedes-Benz's market demand is still strong ... Hubertus Troska, a member of the board of directors of Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz AG and responsible for the greater China business, said that the global automotive industry faces challenges in 2021, but Mercedes-Benz always gives priority to the Chinese market business and tries to ensure supply ... As Tang Shikai, a member of the board of directors of Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz AG and responsible for the business in Greater China, said, Mercedes-Benz will continue to help transform China's automotive industry and create a sustainable future.

Musk: Tesla's fully autonomous driving system will rise to $12,000

January 8 news, this morning, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said through social media that tesla full self-driving system (FSD, Full Self-Driving) price will rise to $12,000 (about 76,560 yuan) on January 17.

Hybrids in the U.S. are popular, with sales up 76% in 2021 to a record high

According to analyst firm Wards Intelligence, U.S. hybrid vehicle sales rose 76 percent last year to 801,550 units, accounting for 5 percent of U.S. light vehicle sales. Toyota Motor Corporation (TM. US) Hitting record sales of hybrid vehicles in the U.S. market helped the Japanese automaker surpass General Motors (GM. US), which became the highest-selling car manufacturer in the United States ... Toyota's sales of hybrid, plug-in and fuel cell vehicles rose 73 percent to 583697, most of them from hybrid vehicles.

Microsoft and Xiaopeng Motors reached a cooperation: "real people" voice on the car

Microsoft officially announced that with the support of TTS (Text-to-Speech) based on the deep neural network based on Microsoft Intelligent Cloud Azure, Xiaopeng Automobile, a leading intelligent electric vehicle company in China, has successfully completed the upgrade of its vehicle-level voice assistant, further improving the technical level of intelligent car voice assistants. Chinese users who purchase the P7 model of Xiaopeng Motors can upgrade this new intelligent voice assistant "Xiao P" that can compete with the beautiful voice through OTA (Over-The-Air), and Xiaopeng Motors also plans to introduce this technology upgrade to several other models through OTA... Hao Chao, senior expert of AI products at Xiaopeng Motors, said: "From determining the intention to cooperate to the product launch, we spent several months with Microsoft to complete a cutting-edge exploration of automotive voice interaction technology, raising the natural voice level of in-vehicle voice to a new level."

Volvo may introduce autonomous driving functions

Volvo Cars and self-driving sensor maker Luminar Technologies Inc said Wednesday that a hands-free driving system called Ride Pilot will be released in California first, though the two companies did not give a specific release date ... Volvo plans to deploy the technology in an upcoming all-electric SUV to be released later this year, which will allow cars to fully take over driving tasks in some limited situations ... Volvo plans to offer customers autonomous driving capabilities as subscription upgrades after the vehicle is on the road.