Recently, Apple's supply chain leader Luxshare Precision officially issued an announcement to acquire Chery's equity at a price of 10.054 billion yuan, and Luxshare Precision also said that it will establish a joint venture with Chery New Energy to develop and manufacture new energy vehicles.
This means that the manufacturer that hugged Apple's thigh and helped Apple OEM airpods, iPhones and various connectors finally began to change lanes and enter the field of car manufacturing.
In fact, in the past year or so, Apple's little brothers and friends have run to build cars, and the progress is relatively rapid, only Apple makes cars, and the progress is still slow.
First of all, the little brothers, first Foxconn built cars, Gou has always thought: "Since we can build iPhones, why can't we build electric vehicles?" It's just a four-wheeled iPhone. ”
In 2021, Foxconn finally built the 4-wheeled iPhone, officially released the pure electric vehicle brand Foxtron, and brought three cars at one time, officially entering the car-making army.
This time to Luxshare Precision, and Luxshare Precision also spent 10 billion, it is obvious that it is also a great determination, and then consider Chery's own technical accumulation, it can be said that Luxshare Precision car manufacturing, imperative, there will not be too many problems.
Next, it is estimated that there will be more Apple's supply chain brothers to enter the field of car manufacturing.
Speaking of Apple's friends to build cars, its typical friends are naturally Huawei.
Huawei has long entered the field of car manufacturing, and has actually launched three cars in cooperation with partners, one is the Cyrus SF5, one is the Alpha S, and the other is the AITO Q&A M5.
According to Yu Chengdong, the sales target of 300,000 vehicles will be challenged in 2022, considering that Wei Xiaoli has sold less than 100,000 vehicles last year, which shows how high this target is.
In addition, Apple's friend Xiaomi also announced the construction of cars in 2021, and said that the first car in 2024 will be mass-produced. In addition, some media said that people like Apple's friend OPPO are also secretly building cars.
It can be said that with the continuous internal rolling of smart phones, from the supply chain to brand manufacturers, there is a bit of a feeling of rolling up, so these manufacturers have begun to change lanes and build cars.
Although Apple has long been rumored to build a car, but it seems to be in a dilemma, when negotiating cooperation with manufacturers, bumping into walls everywhere, such as Hyundai and other manufacturers have refused to cooperate with Apple, and when talking about batteries, BYD and so on also refuse to cooperate with Apple, when will launch the car, or an unknown.