New Energy Daily | Xiaopeng Automobile was complained of "locking the electricity" The owner said that the OTA upgrade follow-up voyage mileage was 90% discount

Whale platform March 14 new energy industry news:

1, Tesla's acquisition of Zotye? Tesla Vice President of External Affairs Tao Lin: Naked fake news

Upstream news news, a few days ago, the news of Tesla's acquisition of Zotye Automobile spread on the Internet, and even signed and sealed documents appeared. In the early morning of March 13, Tao Lin, tesla's vice president of external affairs, posted a microblog to refute rumors that Tesla's acquisition of Zotye Automobile was "naked fake news."

2, Xiaopeng Automobile was complained of "locking the electricity" The owner said that the OTA upgrade followed the mileage discount of 9%.

Financial Associated Press March 13 news, recently, Xiaopeng Automobile was complained by many car owners that their car at the end of last year after an OTA (car remote upgrade), the mileage dropped significantly, suspected that Xiaopeng Automobile through the OTA way to the vehicle "lock electricity", these owners are the first batch of users of Xiaopeng P7. The reporter consulted the official customer service of Xiaopeng Automobile in this regard, and the other party said that if there is any doubt about the battery capacity, the owner can go to the store for free testing. However, the owner of the car, Mr. Le, said that he and a number of riders found this problem a few months ago and began to contact Xiaopeng to deal with it, and Xiaopeng and the sales store repeatedly stressed that there was no "locking the electricity". However, when the owner proposed to the store to do battery testing, the store said that there was no related equipment.

3. Evergrande Automobile's "Hengchi 5" has passed the one-month publicity period of the new car of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and has been qualified for sales

According to the latest list of road motor vehicle manufacturers and products (batch 353) released by the official website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, "Hengchi 5" is still in the list, which means that "Hengchi 5" has passed the one-month publicity period for new cars of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and has sales qualifications. According to the reporter's understanding, at present, Hengchi has issued an advertisement for high-paying recruitment of automobile sales consultants, and the market has previously rumored that "Hengchi 5" will be officially sold in the second quarter of this year.

4. Rivian hires a new COO to solve production problems

"Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily" news on the 14th, subject to supply chain problems such as semiconductor shortages, Rivian has been difficult to increase production capacity, a person familiar with the matter said that in order to solve these unfavorable conditions, the company hired Frank Klein, head of the automobile manufacturing department of Magna Steyr in Canada, as COO.

5, lithium carbonate rose from 50,000 to 500,000 Nearly 40 new energy vehicles have raised prices

CCTV news news, from a number of car companies to learn that in February this round of price increases, as little as a thousand yuan, more than tens of thousands of yuan. Since entering March, nearly 20 new energy vehicle companies have announced price increases, involving nearly 40 models. This round of new energy vehicle market price increases is mainly divided into two situations, one is a simple product price increase, and the other is to improve product configuration and increase prices. Liu Erlong, executive deputy general manager of a new energy material company in Jiangxi, said: "The price of (lithium carbonate) at that time was basically maintained at about 50,000 yuan per ton, but after more than a year, it has now risen to 500,000 yuan per ton. ”

6. Huawei: Providing smart PV solutions for 140MW distributed PV projects of Turkish steel producers

According to Huawei's smart photovoltaic news, on March 11, Turkey's international steel producer Tosyali Holding selected Huawei to provide a full set of smart photovoltaic solutions for its newly developed 140MW distributed photovoltaic project, and EPC is a one-stop service provider SolarAPEX. The project has an installed capacity of 140MW and covers an area of 632,000 square meters, located on the roof of a steel factory in the southeastern City of Osmaniyah, Turkey. After the completion of the project, it is expected to generate 250 million kWh of electricity per year, equivalent to 23% of Turkey's total solar power generation, which can meet the annual electricity consumption of 84 million people in Turkey.

7. LONGi signed a major investment agreement of 19.5 billion yuan

LONGi announced that the Company signed the "Investment Cooperation Agreement" with the Ordos Municipal People's Government and the YijinHolo Banner People's Government on March 12, 2022, and reached a cooperation intention on the company's investment and construction of a 20GW monocrystalline silicon rod and slice project, a 30GW high-efficiency monocrystalline cell project and a 5GW high-efficiency photovoltaic module project in the Mengsu Economic Development Zone of Yijinholoqi in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The investment project was invested by the project subsidiary of LONGi Green Energy Technology of about 19.5 billion yuan (including working capital).

8. Zhejiang Taizhou invested more than 10 billion Yongtai New Energy Materials Industrial Park project signing involving lithium battery materials

On March 13, the financial associated press reported that the signing ceremony of the Yongtai New Energy Materials Industrial Park project was held in Linhai on the afternoon of March 11. With a total investment of more than 10 billion yuan, the project will build a one-stop supply base for lithium battery materials around new energy materials. According to reports, Zhejiang Yongtai Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Yongtai Holdings, is a national key high-tech enterprise specializing in the research and development, production and sales of fluorine fine chemicals, and began to enter the field of new energy lithium battery materials in 2016, built a lithium battery material project, and expanded new business areas in fluorine-containing products.

9. Car companies have intensively raised prices Some low-end models have stopped receiving orders

On March 14, the financial associated press reported that the visit found that due to factors such as rising raw material prices, new energy vehicle companies have recently raised prices. With the price center moving upwards, some low-end models (A00-level) with meager profits are mired in losses and stop taking orders, and the pattern of "dumbbell type" in the mainland new energy vehicle market has quietly changed. How to find a balance between "quantity" and "profit" has become a difficult problem facing major car companies.

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Today's topic: Xiaopeng Automobile was complained about "locking the electricity" The owner said that the OTA upgrade followed the 90% discount on the mileage

Recently, Xiaopeng Automobile was complained by many car owners that after a OTA (car remote upgrade) at the end of last year, the mileage dropped significantly, and it was suspected that Xiaopeng Automobile had "locked the power" of the vehicle through OTA, and these owners were the first users of Xiaopeng P7. The reporter consulted the official customer service of Xiaopeng Automobile in this regard, and the other party said that if there is any doubt about the battery capacity, the owner can go to the store for free testing. However, the owner of the car, Mr. Le, said that he and a number of riders found this problem a few months ago and began to contact Xiaopeng to deal with it, and Xiaopeng and the sales store repeatedly stressed that there was no "locking the electricity". However, when the owner proposed to the store to do battery testing, the store said that there was no related equipment.

In addition to Xiaopeng Motors, WM, GAC Aion S, GAC Toyota iA5, Tesla Model S and other models have been exposed to the "lock power" problem, it can be seen that "lock power" is not an isolated case, how do you think about the "lock power" chaos? Welcome to the discussion!