Financial Associated Press Auto Morning Post【January 30】

In 2021, the mainland passenger car production capacity is still in the serious excess range

On January 29, according to the statistics of the Federation of Passenger Vehicles, by the end of 2021, the total production capacity of passenger cars in the country will be 40.89 million units, and the capacity utilization rate will be 52.47%. In 2021, there will be 86 enterprises with sales volumes, with a total production capacity of 37.038 million vehicles, and the corresponding overall capacity utilization rate will be 57.93%. Of the total passenger car production capacity, 3.85 million units of the remaining companies have completely idle production capacity. Financial Associated Press Automobile: How to digest excess production capacity has become a matter of life and death for some car companies.

The first batch of NIO ET5 production line verification prototypes are scheduled to be delivered in September

On January 29, a reporter from the Financial Associated Press learned from NIO that the first batch of production line verification prototypes (validation builds) of NIO's fifth model ET5 have been rolled off the production line at the Hefei plant. According to the previous plan, ET5 will start delivery in September this year. In December last year, NIO officially released the mid-sized intelligent electric coupe ET5.

Financial Associated Press Auto: Will et5 create a sense of oppression for Tesla Model 3?

Xiaopeng Motors responds that the new car will use The Sunwoda power battery: unofficial information is subject to the filing information of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

On January 29, in response to the news that "G9 will use Sunwoda power batteries", Xiaopeng Automobile said, "This information is not official information, the preparation of vehicles and the selection of suppliers are an important part of the business plan, please refer to the filing information of the Ministry of Vehicle Industry and Information Technology." A day earlier, according to the "Late Post" news, Xiaopeng Automobile has determined that it uses the Sunwoda 4C power battery in the medium and large SUV G9 released in November last year. It is reported that Sunwoda will be a certain version of the G9 A supply, the supply share of more than 50%.

Financial Associated Press Automobile: Power battery production capacity is in short supply, and car companies do not want to rely too much on a single supplier.

Daimler will change its name to Mercedes-Benz on February 1

On January 29, the Daimler Group said that it would officially change its name to Mercedes-Benz on February 1, 2022. After splitting up its trucking business, Daimler chose to change its name to emphasize its more focused zero-emission vehicle and software businesses to boost the company's overall valuation.

Financial Associated Press Auto: This will be the third name change in the company's history, and it also conforms to the tide of intelligent electrification that has swept the world.

ID.5, ID.5 GTX off the production line Volkswagen Zwickau plant completed the electrification of production capacity

On January 28, local time, Volkswagen announced that it has officially started mass production of Volkswagen ID.5 models at its Zwickau plant in West Saxony, Germany, including the all-wheel drive ID.5 GT. This also marks the completion of the transformation of Volkswagen's Zwickau plant, which is the first large-scale vehicle plant in the world's top automobile brands to shift all production capacity from internal combustion engine models to electrified products, which took about 26 months to transform, and currently produces six models with a potential production capacity of 330,000 vehicles per year.

Associated Press Auto: The giants are starting to fight back.

(Financial Associated Press reporter Liu Yang sorted / commented)