Since the establishment of the ideal car, the ridicule about it on the Internet has never stopped, and the most classic of them is that "the ideal result is not ideal".
In fact, this statement is not empty, in the fourth quarter and annual financial report of 2021 disclosed by Ideal Automobile yesterday, ideal automobile annual revenue of 27.01 billion yuan in 2021, an increase of 185.6% year-on-year, but the net loss also expanded year-on-year, to 321.5 million yuan, mainly due to the increase in research and development and sales expenses.
At the same time, in the fourth quarter of last year, Ideal Automobile also achieved a single-quarter profit for the first time, the company's revenue was 10.62 billion yuan, an increase of 156.1% year-on-year, net profit was 300 million yuan, delivery volume reached 35,000 units, all three data exceeded market expectations, so the stock of Ideal Automobile rose in response.
Recently, there has been a lot of news about the ideal car in the car circle, and we are talking about it one by one, first of all, the ideal official disclosure financial report mentioned above, and it is also the first car company in Wei Xiaoli to release the 2021 financial report. It can be seen that although the growth of brand sales has driven the company's revenue to create record highs, the rapid expansion of the ideal car has also led to the rise in costs and sales expenses, which in turn has led to the entire ideal in 2021 is still in a state of loss, and this loss increased by 111.9% year-on-year, and there is still a trend of expansion. Therefore, in 2022, in addition to releasing new cars and expanding factories, how to achieve break-even will also be one of its top priorities.
But in fact, this is only the beginning of 2022, and the ideal car has already been involved in several storms. On February 11, an ideal ONE owner challenged a net red ramp in Hunan "Chengfo Slope", and the result was an accident, resulting in a damaged gearbox of the vehicle, so it was questioned that there was a problem with the design of the ideal ONE vehicle.
Although Ideal Auto subsequently sent a vehicle to challenge "Cheng fo Po" for the second time and successfully passed, and said that it would optimize the differential protection logic through OTA upgrades, and successfully resolved the crisis public relations, but under the continuous fermentation of public opinion and the ridicule of friends, Ideal Auto obviously lost the "Cheng Fo Po" this time and did not gain a little benefit.
But worse things are still happening, just on February 24, some netizens uploaded a video suspected of being the ideal ONE in the parking lot fire spontaneous combustion incident, immediately set off an uproar on the Internet. And then immediately yesterday, the network rumors that there is another suspected ideal ONE vehicle due to collision with the cement pier in the middle of the road and the vehicle fire, it is clearly visible that the entire body of the vehicle in the video was covered by a fire, it is reported that the small battery of the vehicle was still in a working state at that time, and the wiper was still swinging after the vehicle.
As of now, Ideal Auto has only responded to the spontaneous combustion incident in the parking lot, saying it is under investigation, while another spontaneous combustion incident on the road has not yet responded. Two spontaneous combustion incidents suspected of being ideal ONE vehicles in two days are a big negative impact for ideal cars, if they are not handled well, "ideals are really not ideal."
Let's get back to the truth, the ideal ONE as a representative range extender electric vehicle on the market, its interior not only contains the electric vehicle three electric system, but also the use of traditional fuel vehicles of the internal combustion engine to generate electricity, so such an internal structure is definitely more complex than pure electric vehicles and fuel vehicles, so the challenge in safety performance will be much greater.
Combined with the pictures of these two spontaneous combustion accidents, the fire location of the spontaneous combustion vehicle in the parking lot is at the front cabin of the car, so it is likely to be a problem with the engine system. It is reported that the ideal ONE is equipped with a 1.2T three-cylinder range extender engine, for the product of Dongan Power, in 2015 the first ignition success, the development time of this engine is not long, and has been 7 years of history so far, in the field of new energy vehicles with such rapid product iteration, this engine is not good to say that the point is "obsolete", so the ideal new car X01 is rumored to be BMW's 1.5T four-cylinder extender engine.
Of course, the above is only the information compiled by the editor, and the specific cause of the accident still has to wait for the official statement of the ideal car. Finally, ideal car as a new force in the domestic head car, the hot sales of ideal ONE are also obvious to all, so more still hope that ideal car as soon as possible to find out the cause, solve the safety hazards, after all, there are still so many ideal ONE running on the road. What do you think about this? Now Xiaobian is very much looking forward to Li Xiang's own speech.