As the saying goes, many skills do not press the body, this saying applies to everyone, just like the current slash youth has become a popular way of life for young people.
The same is true for car companies, in addition to building cars, they also occasionally have to do some side business, such as Ferrari parks, Jianghuai wineries and so on. Among the side hustles we know, the biggest thing to play is probably the public sausage, after all, people's curry sausages came out earlier than golf.
In recent years, the side business launched by car companies is more varied, there are selling pants, there are clothes, you really don't say that people are not professional, every time you do this, it can cause a good response, and the side business project is also getting bigger and bigger.
tesla
Speaking of this side business, we must talk about Tesla, remember April Fool's Day of a certain year? Tesla CEO Musk once said on Twitter that he was drunk next to the Model 3, and the bottles of Teslaquilla were all on the side.
Later, he actually launched the "Tesla Tequila", which cost $250, about 1658 yuan. I don't know if this wine is good or not, but it is sold on fire! Even empty wine bottles were rushed for.
Of course, this is not Tesla's only side business, it has also launched "S3X" shorts and children's cars, etc., and the side business is thriving. In the near future, Tesla is going to attack the app store again, which means that iOS and Android should be careful!
According to sources, Tesla may be developing its own app store for its electric car owners to download and install apps here. In fact, back in 2019, Musk said, "As the number of our cars grows, it starts to make more sense to develop games and other apps for Tesla." ”
In the past shortly fourth quarter earnings call, Tesla also said that 2022 will be "the year of software", and added a new feature to the in-vehicle software update, allowing users to customize the application icon at the bottom of the screen, this series of operations also made countless media think that Tesla is really going to develop its own app store.
If this is the case, let alone the response, the ecosystem built by Tesla alone should become more complete.
SAIC-GM-Wuling
In addition to foreign Tesla, SAIC-GM-Wuling is also a good hand at doing side business. Its previously released snail powder is pleasant, self-satisfied, and complacent... Noble and elegant emerald as the main color of the outer packaging, built-in in addition to snail powder, but also thoughtfully equipped with exquisite tableware set.
In the words of Wuling Motors, this is the Hermès in Luoshi powder, and just recently Wuling Motors officially announced that the "GAMEBOY" trademark has been successfully registered and will soon open a new cross-border game.
this... What is it for? Growing the game industry? Dude, do you still know what you do?
Speaking of GAMEBOY, boys after the 80s and 90s will not be strangers to it, as a handheld game console launched by Nintendo in the late 1980s, it was popular around the world.
Nowadays, with the official announcement of Wuling, many people think that Wuling is going to develop its own game industry this time, after all, it is in "Forza Motorsport: Horizon 5" that is mixed up.
However, after many inquiries, it was found that the "GAMEBOY" trademark registered by Wuling was internationally classified as "means of transport".
Considering the red and black "GB" of the rear of the new Hongguang MINI EV recently exposed by netizens.
And the "GB" video officially released by Wuling, summarized in the MINIEV collection and a series of other signs, the new Hongguang MINIEV is likely to become the first model of the product sequence, "Hongguang MINIEV GAMEBOY", it seems that this is to use the feelings to do things.
NIO
In addition to the above traditional car companies, the new car-making forces on the other side are not idle, and Weilai Automobile has recently been exposed to the news that it wants to enter the mobile phone industry.
Isn't the mobile phone industry already very popular? After the peak of annual shipments of smart phones in 2017, it showed a continuous downward trend, why squeeze in? The march of making mobile phones to build cars, the car builders to build mobile phones, this...
As we all know, in the current new energy market intelligence and electrification has become an unavoidable topic, and in the ecological environment built by car companies, the role of smart phones is like a decisive "key".
In the current mobile phone that advocates the interconnection of everything between people, cars and lives, if the mobile phone is also "its own person", then many problems can be solved. We can boldly guess that if Weilai really launches a mobile phone one day, will it also focus on changing the battery?
From the previous small fights, to the current project to become bigger and stronger, it may have been to increase their influence, and now more to help the main business, after all, in the current automobile market has long entered the stock era, how to seek new growth points has become a topic of concern for every car company, seemingly insignificant side business is actually inextricably linked, have to admit that car companies really play.