Let's take stock of what major events happened in the automotive circle on April 1, 2022.
Auto Incident 1: Zhang Mingxia is the vice president of sales for smart brand global companies
On April 1, the Board of Directors of Smart Brand Global announced an important personnel appointment: Mingxia Zhang will succeed Daniel Lescow as Vice President of Sales, Marketing and After-Sales of Smart Brand Global Company and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Smart Europe GmbH, responsible for the operation of the Smart brand in the global market. Daniel Lescow will return to Mercedes-Benz Group AG to accept a new appointment.
Mingxia Zhang has been working in the luxury automotive market for over 20 years, holding senior management positions in various international brands, and has accumulated rich experience in multinational cooperation, corporate strategy, brand operation, sales management, retail business management and training.
Car incident two: 1795 units delivered in March ZEEKR 001
On April 1, Extreme Krypton Motor announced its sales figures for the month of March. Due to the impact of the epidemic and chip supply, ZEEKR 001 delivered 1,795 units in March, and as of March 31, 2022, the cumulative delivery volume was 14,248 units. In addition, with the arrival of a new batch of core components at the end of March, it is expected that production and delivery will be significantly improved in April.
Auto Incident 3: Pony Chi Heng and Qingxiao Logistics start operations on April 1
The in-depth cooperation between Xiaoma Zhixing and Sinotrans has made important progress. After more than three months of preliminary preparations, the joint venture company established by Xiaoma Zhixing and Sinotrans was officially registered and named CYANTRON Logistics Technology Co., Ltd., which will start business operations on April 1.
Headquartered in Guangzhou, Qingxiao Logistics has established its first operating subsidiary in Qingdao. At present, the two sides have jointly invested more than 100 trucks to start container transportation business. Based on the practice accumulation of Xiaoma Zhixing in the field of autonomous driving technology and smart logistics platform, Qingqiao Logistics has put L4 level autonomous driving trucks into capacity services, and has begun to apply a full set of automatic driving technology and intelligent logistics platform.
Auto Event 4: Liberation Power: Export sales in the first quarter increased by 37% year-on-year
FAW Engine Division's overseas market is expected to export more than 10,700 units from January to March, and export sales will increase by 37% year-on-year, of which 2,600 units of Aowei series products will be exported, an increase of 190% year-on-year, a record high in the same period of history.
In terms of Aowei market development, in the first quarter, the export orders of Jiefang Power supporting Liberation reached 3,000 units. Among them, there are 1800 units in the Russian market, all of which are CA6DM2 and CA6DL2 products of the Jiefang Power Aowei series. The Jiefang J7 exported to Mexico in batches is also the exclusive supporting jiefang power CA6DM3-55E5 engine. On another high-end model, JH6, the export orders of Jiefang Power in the first quarter exceeded 500 units, especially in the South African market, 100% of the jiefang power Aowei CA6DM2 and CA6DM3 products, and the order reached 300 units in the first quarter.
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