Recently, at the fifth session of the 15th Beijing Municipal People's Congress, Beijing Mayor Chen Jining made a government work report. The report comprehensively reviews Beijing's economic and social development achievements in the past year and clarifies nine key tasks in 2022. Among them, regarding the specific measures to accelerate the construction of the international science and technology innovation center, "promoting the start of xiaomi cars and the construction of ideal cars" is prominently listed.
After several twists and turns, Beijing finally officially joined the competition of "Detroit of the East" in the new energy era. And the contestants in this competition have their own housekeeping skills.
Beijing: Finally waited for "rice", fortunately did not give up
As early as 2019, there was news that Beijing Yizhuang SDIC would invest tens of billions of cash in Weilai. Later, the cooperation between the two sides failed, and it was picked up by Hefei, and the following year Yizhuang Guotou turned its attention to Polar Star Automobile, but there was no following.
In 2021, Beijing Yizhuang finally relied on the location advantage of the capital and the huge market of technical talents to retain Xiaomi in the competition with Wuhan, Hefei, Xi'an and other cities, and will build a Xiaomi automobile headquarters base and vehicle factory, and the first car is expected to roll off the production line in 2024.
Ideal Cars, on the other hand, announced at the end of 2021 that Ideal ONE's annual sales exceeded the sales of all medium and large SUVs of Volkswagen combined. Prior to this, in October, ideal cars Beijing green intelligent plant officially started construction in Beijing's Shunyi District, beijing, the old Beijing Hyundai plant, will become an annual production capacity of 250,000 extender electric SUV production base.
Beijing has finally caught up with the new energy vehicle bus. Although other cities have driven several stops, it is not impossible for the capital to catch up with the acceleration of overtaking in the special capacity of the capital.
Shanghai: Combining Soil and Ocean to Create a "New Energy Vehicle Capital"
Up to now, the number of new energy vehicles in Shanghai has exceeded 620,000, ranking first in the country; because the license plate is not limited by the index, new energy vehicles accounted for nearly half of the new vehicles in Shanghai last year; the ratio of new energy vehicles to charging piles in Shanghai reached 1.3:1, which is much higher than the national average of 3:1.
Shanghai's new energy automobile industry has a good mass base, not only sitting on the homegrown SAIC Motor Group, but also new car-making forces such as Weima and Zhiji have also settled in Shanghai. At the same time, the "magic capital" is also favored by international car companies. The Tesla Gigafactory lowered the price of Tesla, and the Volkswagen Group's first MEB pure electric platform factory pulled Volkswagen's sales up.
The win or loss of this new energy automobile industry is still unknown, but if it is internationalization, Shanghai has already won.
Guangdong Province: Technology is up, and the noise is making a fortune
Guangdong Province has always been at the forefront of manufacturing. Guangzhou not only has the "pro-son" of GAC Group, but also ushered in Xiaopeng Automobile. Compared with Weilai and Ideal, Xiaopeng Automobile can be called low-key, but it has always occupied a place in the three giants of new car-making forces, and the temperament of guangzhou is quite harmonious.
Shenzhen, as the forefront of reform and opening up, has not only cultivated leading enterprises such as BYD, but also owns Huawei and Tencent, and grasps the lifeblood of many new power enterprises in the upstream fields such as three electric technologies and operating systems.
Hefei: Venture capital genius, tens of billions of future
At the end of 2019, Weilai Automobile was crumbling, and Li Bin was called "the most miserable person". Weilai, which was anxious to find money, has negotiated with 18 cities, all of which have failed. Until hefei STATE-OWNED ASSETSAC invested 7 billion yuan, it rescued Weilai from the ICU.
Weilai did not fail Hefei, and after a year, its market value increased dozens of times. In 2020, Hefei's GDP exceeded one trillion yuan in one fell swoop, successfully turning from "the foil of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai" and ranking among the new first-tier cities.
After this, Hefei also reported investment in zero-run cars, trying to replicate the success of Weilai, but there was no following; the list of "new first-tier" cities in 2021 also disappeared from Hefei. Whether Hefei can maintain its lead is still unknown.
Liuzhou: The countryside surrounds the city, and the tide seizes the market
When other brands are "fighting in blood" in first- and second-tier cities, Liuzhou's local specialties "old man music" has quietly occupied third- and fourth-tier cities, and Wuling Hongguang MINI EV has rushed to the top of the sales list by relying on low prices.
According to saic-GM-Wuling statistics, 80% of the consumer groups of Hongguang MINI EV are post-80s and post-90s; of all orders, first- and second-tier cities account for 37%, third- and fourth-tier cities account for 55%, and the remaining 8% are from county-level rural markets.
Other cities are busy grabbing the market from fuel vehicles, and Liuzhou has discovered a new continent from the sinking market, making it affordable for people who have never thought of buying a car. The encirclement of the city by the countryside is indeed a reflection of the wisdom of the great men.
Investment is risky, and of course, investment in new energy vehicle companies is not always successful. For example, Jiangsu Province has successively planted heels on Byton, Bo County, and Sailin, which can be described as "one shot and one deception, when the dang is different".
New brands are still rising and falling, and old auto cities such as Changchun and Wuhan have gradually entered the market, and there are more variables in the competition for "Detroit in the East". But no matter who ends up spending, it will be a victory for China's auto industry.
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