The day before yesterday, Baidu's Jidu Automobile announced the completion of nearly 400 million US dollars A round of financing, which instantly aroused a lot of discussion on the Internet, and even some netizens ridiculed, "The end of the universe is the compilation, and the end of the Internet company may be to build a car."
It can be said that almost every Internet company involved in the intelligent industry has a "car-making dream". Today we will take stock of what new generation of new car-making forces have entered the game in the past year after "Wei Xiaoli".
Jidu car
On the one hand is one of the domestic Internet giants, on the other hand is the new leader of independent car brands, Jidu Automobile If it is renamed "Jidu Automobile", it is more appropriate to think about it.
On January 26, 2022, Jidu Automobile announced the completion of nearly $400 million Series A financing, which was jointly increased by Baidu and Geely. After the financing was completed, Jidu Automobile said that it would speed up the process of research and development and mass production, and the first concept model would be unveiled at the 2022 Beijing Auto Show, and said that the concept car was "90% close to mass production" in terms of appearance and concept.
As early as 2013, Baidu launched the unmanned vehicle project, and officially launched the Apollo system in 2017, hoping to create an "Android system in the field of automatic driving", providing an open, complete and safe software platform to the automotive industry and the field of automatic driving, helping them build a complete automatic driving system combined with hardware systems.
In the current environment, automatic driving is only a part of the intelligent mobile space, and the policy environment has added a lot of resistance to the promotion of automatic driving technology, and Baidu finally can no longer sit still and take the initiative to build a car. It is understood that Jidu Automobile plans to invest 50 billion yuan in the future to further iterate the self-developed electronic and electrical architecture JET1.0, automatic driving system, core computing power platform, and related sensors to the mass production state.
If all goes well, Jidu Auto says the first complete automotive robot product will be available in 2023.
Light orange age
Shenzhen Light Orange Times was established on June 25, 2021 with a registered capital of 10 million yuan, and its business scope includes auto parts wholesale, new energy vehicle sales, and auto new car sales. The largest shareholder of this new company is Guangzhou Zhanmeng Technology, holding 42.78% of the shares.
Whether it is light orange era or zhanmeng technology, its main shareholders and legal representatives are side labels, of which the business scope of zhanmeng technology includes new energy vehicle sales, battery manufacturing, and software development, etc., and there is a certain overlap in the business scope of the light orange era.
In terms of product positioning, Light Orange Times said that it will provide more popular products, that is, models with lower prices, and more focus on the second-tier, third-tier, and even sinking markets. The side label said that although there are many new energy models on the market at present, Nezha and Zero Run, these brands have advanced card slots in the low-price market, but the high-quality electric vehicle market that Volkswagen can receive is still relatively blank.
On the other hand, the reason why the light orange era has attracted much attention is to cooperate with BAIC Ruixiang, which has just come out of the whirlpool of bankruptcy and reorganization, and the OEM model has shortened the time for new cars to land by more than half. At last year's Guangzhou Auto Show, Light Orange Times has released its first-generation pure electric platform EEZI STEP1.0, as well as the first model based on the platform , Light Orange Age Vc.
Again, as long as everything goes well, the car will be delivered in the middle of this year, which is a fast speed in the industry!
Yo-Yo Technology
Founded in April 2021, Shanghai Youpao Technology is a new type of intelligent electric vehicle company that builds cars for scenes, but there are no car manufacturing plans at present.
Six months after the establishment of the company, it reached a strategic cooperation with Bosch China, and the two sides will carry out a series of technical cooperation in the field of integrated chassis and carry out the research and development of "UP super chassis". In addition, Boyuan Capital, a subsidiary of Bosch, announced that it has completed the pre-A+ round of financing of Yo-Run Technology, which is the third financing obtained since the establishment of Yo-Run Technology.
Not long ago, on January 11, Yo-Yo Technology held the first "UP DAY Yo-Yo Experience Day" with the theme of "Born for the Freedom of Car Building". At the experience day, the concept of "skateboard chassis" was promoted, and the UP super chassis and three UP SPACE super cabin concept cars were launched. At the same time, Li Peng, the founder of Yo-Run Technology, also announced the four major technologies of yo-yo UP super chassis - full-wire control chassis, pluggable ring network electronic and electrical architecture, CTC battery system and high-integration thermal management system.
Although the real car has not yet come out, the "skateboard chassis" that integrates the three-electric system, chassis and intelligent hardware is indeed a very novel concept, and it is also very in line with their concept of "freedom of car building". Combined with future 3D printing technology, there may be unexpected results.
Box car
Box Auto was founded in 2013, is the first batch of new car-making force car companies, has been with a number of domestic and foreign vehicle companies have the experience of cooperative development projects, vehicle development of each professional configuration is complete, with the ability to independently develop the vehicle.
But such a car is rarely heard of, mainly because of their previous main service with the B-side. In 2019, they adjusted their future development strategy, founded the Zhixing box brand, firmly followed the path of independent product development, and continued to focus on creating travel tools suitable for the B-end market.
On December 15 last year, Box Motors officially released the first mass-produced model, the BM-400, and announced the RELEVANT information on the subsequent launch of the BM-600 model, which focuses on the high-end rental market. Among them, the BM-400 is the main car, online car, taxi market, the car will be trial production this year, and mass production in 2023. It is understood that the BM-400 model has received 42,000 intentional orders.
From the perspective of the previous electric vehicle use scenarios, the strategic direction of the box car is undoubtedly very in line with the development direction of the electric vehicle, and the action of the box car is undoubtedly more stable than other new power brands that play the concept.
Self-traveling NV
On December 15, 2021, Niu Chuangxin Energy Technology Co., Ltd. released the English brand "NIUTRON" and the Chinese brand "Self-Traveler", which will focus on the field of intelligent high-end new energy vehicles in the future.
Maybe you're not familiar with Niu Innovative Energy, but there's a good chance you've heard of Maverick electric vehicles. In the field of two-wheeled electric vehicles, The Maverick is indeed a high-end brand, and compared with the electric vehicles on the street, the Maverick belongs to the brand tone. In 2021, Maverick Electric sold 1037914 two-wheeled electric vehicles, an increase of 72.5% year-on-year, which is estimated to be their courage to enter the four-wheeled electric vehicle.
On January 12, 2022, the newly established Ziyoujia Automobile released the official map of the first model, the new car named "NV", positioning a medium and large 5-seat SUV, and providing pure electric and range extender hybrid two powertrains. According to the plan of the self-traveler, this model will be small-scale trial production in March this year, and will be listed at the Beijing Auto Show in April, and will be delivered in September.
In the future, the car will be manufactured in the automotive production base of the Self-Youjia brand in Changzhou, and adhere to the way of building a self-built brand direct store to build a sales channel.
Bing li
The new power brand of electric vehicles similar to a super luxury brand in this name was established on June 11, 2021, with a registered capital of up to 200 million US dollars, and its business scope includes the manufacture of new energy vehicles.
Note that the company not only has an amazing registered capital, but also intends to actually "build its own car", which is a new company without a hardware foundation, and then it must get a steady stream of capital transfusions. In addition, unlike those new power brands that cross-border car manufacturing, the executives of Pennsylvania include You Zheng, deputy general manager of Dongfeng Motor Group, and Su Weiming.
Su Weiming is a veteran of the automotive industry, joining Daimler Benz in 1995 and subsequently serving as Vice President of Chrysler China. In 2005, he left Daimler to join the Volkswagen Group, where he served as Director and Executive Vice President of Volkswagen China, and then general manager of FAW-Volkswagen Sales. In March last year, Su Weiming officially joined Renault as CEO of Renault China, and in August, he promoted the cooperation between Renault Group and Geely Holding Group.
It is understood that the first car of Bingli will be the standard Porsche Taycan's high-performance four-door pure electric coupe, which is expected to be officially released at the Beijing Auto Show in April.
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2021 is a chaotic and difficult year, around the epidemic caused by the gap in automobile production capacity, leaving consumers extremely anxious. But it is gratifying that China's auto market is still very hot, the existing new car-making forces continue to gush out good news, and new cross-border car-making companies have entered the game with new ideas, which has the momentum to sweep away the haze of the epidemic.
In 2022, I hope that more expectations can be successfully realized, so that the new era of a hundred flowers will come early!