Recently, WEILAI released the "Explanation on recent production and delivery", Weilai said that since March, due to the epidemic, the company's supply chain partners in Jilin, Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places have stopped production and have not yet recovered.
Affected by this, WEILAI's vehicle production has been suspended. Due to the above reasons, many users' vehicles will be delayed in the near future.
And Li Bin, founder, chairman and CEO of Weilai, also commented in the "Explanation" comment area that due to the impact of the epidemic in Changchun and Hebei, some of our parts were cut off in mid-March, relying on some parts inventory to barely support until last week.
Li Bin said that recently there have been epidemics in Shanghai and Jiangsu, and many partners cannot supply goods and can only suspend production. At the same time, he admitted that this situation is not a Weilai, many manufacturers have suspended production, and Weilai is as anxious as everyone.
And yesterday, Weilai officials said that due to the impact of the continuous sharp rise in global raw material prices this year, from May 10, 2022, Weilai will make appropriate adjustments to the prices of its products.
In terms of vehicle price: the starting price of ES8, ES6 and EC6 versions of the model is raised by 10,000 yuan; the BaaS battery rental price, the long-endurance battery pack battery rental service fee is adjusted from 1480 yuan / month to 1680 yuan / month; the price of the battery pack flexibly upgraded to the long-endurance battery pack is adjusted to 9800 yuan / year.
For the price increase, Li Bin also said, "Raw materials, especially battery raw materials, have risen too much this year, and there is no downward trend in the near future, I originally wanted to carry it, the epidemic situation is even more unbearable, the price increase is also forced to ah, please understand." ”
It is understood that Li Bin previously said at the fourth quarter and annual financial report of Weilai: "We have done in-depth research on the upstream links, and believe that the current speculative factors of lithium carbonate price increases are more, and there is not so much gap between supply and demand. We call on upstream lithium ore, lithium salt and other manufacturers to start from long-term interests and not artificially create price increases, which is not a good thing for the industry. ”
In fact, due to the influence of international factors recently, in addition to Weilai, a large number of car companies have announced price increases in their models before, such as Tesla, Ideal, Xiaopeng and so on.