Let's take stock of what major events happened in the automotive circle on March 1, 2022.
Car Incident 1: Ford's Kansas plant suspended production of the F-150 due to lack of cores
On February 25, Ford officials said that due to the global semiconductor supply shortage, the company's assembly plant in Kansa City, USA, will suspend production for a week.
Ford's Kansas City plant is responsible for the production of Ford's best-selling car in the U.S. market, the F-150 pickup. Ford said it would continue to operate at the Dearborn, Michigan plant, which also produces the F-150, and would not be affected by the shutdown. The F-150 is one of Ford's most profitable models, and together with the company's other large feature models and vans, it generates a large portion of Ford's global profits.
Automobile incident two: Baidu's "radish run" commercialization pilot landed in Yangquan
Recently, Yangquan City officially issued a pilot license for the commercialization of intelligent and connected vehicle autonomous driving services and a pilot license for the commercialization of unmanned travel services for intelligent and connected vehicles to Baidu's "Radish Run". Today, Radish Run officially provides the public with a paid service for autonomous driving demonstration application travel. After Beijing and Chongqing, Yangquan has become another commercial landing city for Radish Run.
According to the plan, after the pilot project of commercialization of autonomous driving travel services in Yangquan, users can experience autonomous driving travel services through the "Radish Run" App, using the traditional mileage pricing mode of the travel industry, which is in line with the public perception of travel scenarios. In the early stage, 30 stations were set up, and the operating time lasted from 9:00 to 17:00, and the demonstration route took the government affairs center of the high-tech zone as the core, radiating the government affairs gathering area, the residential gathering area, and the high-tech industrial area, fully meeting the transportation needs of government services, bus connections, work-residential commuting and so on in the region. In the future, with the deepening of the layout of Radish Fast Running in Yangquan, the operating routes and stations will continue to expand to further meet the daily travel needs.
Automobile event three: Xinwanda Zaozhuang power storage battery project officially started
Recently, the centralized groundbreaking ceremony of major projects in Shandong Province in 2022 was held, and the 20 billion yuan Sunwoda 30GWh power battery project officially kicked off the construction curtain.
Sunwoda 30GWh power battery project by Sunwoda Electronics Co., Ltd. investment of 20 billion yuan construction, covers an area of 1,000 acres, construction area of about 1 million square meters, the main construction of annual output of 30GWh power battery, energy storage battery and supporting production base, is Zaozhuang currently the largest single investment lithium battery industry project. It is understood that at the end of 2021, the project was signed in Jinan Shandong Building and announced that it would officially settle in Zaozhuang High-tech Zone. From the formalities of the enterprise to the design of the engineering plan, from the clearing of thousands of acres of land to the groundbreaking, it took only two months to start construction after signing the contract.
Auto Incident Four: Nezha 2022 Strategic Exposure
On March 1, 2022, Nezha Automobile held the "Netalks Nezha Automobile Core Media Communication Meeting" at the Beijing Design Center, according to the official strategic information released at the meeting, Nezha Automobile will start to expand the Southeast Asian automobile market with Thailand as the entrance, and prepare to enter the European market, so it also announced the right-hand drive version overseas in December 2021.
At the meeting, Nezha Automobile announced that it will expand its sales channels to 250 cities in 2022, increase the number of directly operated stores to 100, and continue to promote the construction of Nezha power-on services. According to the data, the delivery volume of Nezha Automobile in January reached 11,009 units, an increase of 402% over January 2021, and the single monthly delivery volume exceeded 10,000 for 3 consecutive months.
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