Written by | Song Yuting
Recently, Beijing municipality issued the "2022 Municipal Government Work Report Key Task List" pointed out that to promote the construction of Xiaomi Automobile Manufacturing Plant, Weilan New Energy Solid-State Battery Phase I, Toyota Fuel Cell R&D Center, Tesla Design Center and other projects to support Beijing Benz to increase production capacity and launch new energy products. Completed the renovation and expansion of the ideal automobile manufacturing base to ensure the smooth installation and commissioning of the equipment. Support the transformation and upgrading of traditional car companies such as BAIC Group.
As early as the completion of the Shanghai Gigafactory, Tesla's idea of developing China's special supply cars began to emerge.
In order to achieve the transformation from "Made in China" to "Design in China", Musk has long revealed the intention of setting up a design and development center in China, and began to recruit relevant talents in the second half of last year, requiring candidates to have more than 20 years of design experience and in-depth understanding of the Chinese market.
In October 2021, Tesla announced that the Shanghai R&D Innovation Center and the Shanghai Gigafactory Data Center were completed and recently put into use. This is Tesla's first overseas R&D center based on vehicle development, including software, hardware, electronics, materials, power and energy engineering teams.
"The completion of the Tesla R&D and Innovation Center not only promotes Tesla to enter a new process of Localization in China, but also provides a localized talent training paradigm for the industry, further accelerating the prosperity of China's intelligent vehicle positive R&D system." Zhu Xiaotong, president of Tesla Greater China, said.
In November, Tesla's global vice president Tao Ling admitted that she hoped that in the near future, not only Tesla's locally manufactured models could achieve nearly 100% localized productivity, but also hoped to see models designed entirely independently by the Chinese team.
This means that Tesla has not only achieved localization production in China, but also further realized research and development in China, and also marks that China's new energy vehicle research and development field has been in line with the international.
At the same time, with the news that the Tesla design center has been confirmed in Beijing, Tesla may develop a special version of the Model 2 at a lower research and development cost, and Tesla China will have greater independence, because Tesla only has a design team in the United States.
But it is worth noting that in the "2022 Municipal Government Work Report Key Task List", the new energy vehicle projects mentioned together with Tesla are also Xiaomi.
In 2021, Xiaomi Automobile has taken the lead in registering in Beijing, and on November 27, the Administrative Committee of Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone and Xiaomi officially signed a cooperation agreement to officially announce that Xiaomi Automobile has settled in Beijing Economic Development Zone.
Xiaomi Automobile will build a vehicle plant with a cumulative annual output of 300,000 vehicles in two phases in the Beijing Economic Development Zone, of which the first and second phases of production capacity are 150,000 units, and the first car will roll off the production line and achieve mass production in the Beijing Economic Development Zone in 2024.
On January 14 this year, Xiaomi announced that it has appointed Yu Liguo as vice president of Xiaomi Automobile and political commissar of Xiaomi Automobile Beijing Headquarters, responsible for coordinating the comprehensive management of Xiaomi Automobile, the promotion of special business, and the organization and talent construction of Xiaomi Automobile Beijing Headquarters.
It is understood that Yu Liguo was in charge of BAIC BJEV's strategic planning, fixed investment, joint venture cooperation, vehicle qualification announcement and government approval, medium and long-term product planning, user experience design, information technology, digital application, ARCFOX (Jihu Automobile) Division and other work.
In this resume, Xiaomi Auto is most interested in Yu Liguo's all-round performance in the process of creating the Jihu brand, and it is expected to bring help to Xiaomi Auto's brand building, organization and talent building.
Not only that, Lei Jun once revealed that Xiaomi Auto has received 20,000 resumes and 453 people in the research and development team. It is certain that Xiaomi Automobile has received positive responses from all kinds of talents, which is good for the production progress of Xiaomi Automobile.
From Tesla's dominance, to the rise of new forces to build cars, to the cross-border entry of traditional enterprises and the Internet, behind the industrial expansion, there is a talent war. Car companies not only have to be better at products, but more importantly, the competition for talents, who can summon a strong intelligent car talent team, who has more than one chance of winning.
Under the limited resources, the entire new energy vehicle market's thirst for talents is also becoming more and more intense. Next, in Beijing, Tesla and Xiaomi, which are also struggling for new energy vehicles, are bound to launch a new round of talent war. 【iDailycar】