Let's take stock of what major events happened in the automotive circle on March 26, 2022.
Automobile incident 1: Jiangqi Group released its 2021 financial report
A few days ago, Jiangqi Group released its 2021 report. In 2021, Jiangqi Group sold a total of 524,200 vehicles and chassis of various types, an increase of 15.63% year-on-year, and achieved a total operating income of 40.311 billion yuan, down 6.05% year-on-year. In 2021, the net profit attributable to the shareholders of the listed company of Jiangqi Group was 200 million yuan, an increase of 40.24% year-on-year.
Specifically, Jiangqi Group will sell a total of 271,800 new vehicles in the commercial vehicle field in 2021. In the field of new energy passenger vehicles, in 2021, Jiangqi Group sold a total of 134,000 new vehicles, an increase of 169% year-on-year, and achieved sales revenue of 3.749 billion yuan.
Car Incident Two: South Korea's SK acquires U.S. charging station operator EverCharge
Recently, SK E&S, a subsidiary of South Korea's SK Group, said in a statement that it has acquired EverCharge, the operator of electric vehicle charging stations in the United States, and although the amount of the acquisition is unknown, the funds will come from SK E&S's $400 million investment in its US branch.
Car Incident Three: Wenyuan Zhixing will use NVIDIA DRIVE Orin chips
At the GTC 2022 conference hosted by NVIDIA, Wenyuan Zhixing announced that it will build its next-generation autonomous driving solution based on NVIDIA's mass-produced autonomous vehicle platform (NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion).
With the help of NVIDIA DRIVE Orin (SoC) system-level chips, Wenyuan Zhixing will further accelerate the large-scale deployment and commercial application process of its self-driving products such as Robotaxi, robobus, and robovan.
Auto Incident 4: Weipan Technology added 11.2 billion euros in new orders
On March 25, 2022, Wispan Technology, a supplier of powertrain technology and sustainable mobility, officially released its fiscal 2021 annual report. In 2021, Wesperant Technology successfully completed the spin-off from Continental and went independently listed in September of that year, trading at a market capitalization of 2.4 billion euros, and was included in the German SDAX index in December.
"Recently, we successfully won a €1 billion order for 800V silicon carbide technology from an American automaker." Andreas Wolf, CEO of YVR, proudly said, "Recently, we have received another large order worth nearly 2 billion euros for electric drive systems. ”
Overall, despite the challenges facing the market, Wispan Technology received 11.2 billion euros in new orders in fiscal 2021, of which electrified products contributed 5.1 billion euros. In the fourth quarter alone, electrified products accounted for more than half of the more than 4.8 billion euros in new orders, of which 2 billion euros came from the New Energy Technologies division.
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