1. Today, Changan Automobile official micro released a poster about LUMIN, from the positioning of the poster cover of the "National Travel Boutique Car", it is not difficult to find that the brand side has high hopes for this car, and the pattern of the A00-level market may change as a result. In terms of appearance, the new car adopts a frosted headlight design similar to the "upper eyelid", which adds more interest to Changan LUMIN, in addition, the new car also adopts hidden door handles and modified wheel hub decoration covers, and the overall style is quite technical and compact.
Independent car review: The A00-level market has now become a must for major car companies, in addition to the Wuling Hongguang MINI EV, Baojun and Chery have released new models to enter this market, and Changan naturally will not hand over this volume of the market to others.
2. Affected by the epidemic, many places in Ningde have been under control since yesterday, including the Jiaocheng District where the Ningde era is located. Ningde City as the base camp of the Ningde era, the production base is the world's largest in terms of production capacity layout, in the Ningde era of the world's top 10 production bases, Ningde base planning capacity of 171GWh, if the Ningde times factory stops production, will further aggravate the shortage of parts supply.
Autonomous car review: For the automotive industry, the chip shortage crisis that has spread since last year has not yet passed, and a new battery supply crisis has surfaced.
3. NIO motor issued a statement saying that due to the suspension of parts suppliers in many places since March, NIO's vehicle factory in Hefei has been forced to stop production due to lack of parts supply, and the vehicle production work will be stopped. In addition, due to the soaring prices of upstream raw materials, WEILAI has raised the price of its three models, specifically, the price of the three models of NIO ES8/ES6/EC6 has been raised by 10,000 yuan respectively, while WEILAI ET5 and ET7 have remained unchanged, and this price policy will take effect from May 10.
Independent car review: Although Li Bin previously said that he would not increase prices, but could not stand the soaring prices of commodity raw materials, but the future still gave a window period, if you want to avoid price increases, it is a good choice to buy now.
4. Today, Cui Dongshu, secretary general of the Association, said that the current production of the automotive industry is more seriously affected by the epidemic, if it can not be alleviated, or will lead to a decline in national automobile production of 15% to 20%, of which the decline in shanghai production accounted for about 10% of the total output, in addition to Weilai, including Tesla, SAIC and other major automobile factories have fallen into the predicament of suspension of production.
Autonomous car review: Shanghai is the production center of SAIC Motor and Tesla, but at present, logistics have stagnated, and the production of new models is no longer possible. However, the good news is that FAW's plant in Jilin has recently resumed work, which will help alleviate the backlog of orders.
5. Dennis Manturov, Minister of Industry of the Russian Federation, said that luxury car brands withdrawing from the Russian market will be replaced by Chinese automakers, and the relevant Russian authorities are discussing with Chinese automakers. It is reported that due to the impact of the situation in Russia and Ukraine, luxury brands including Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Porsche have stopped exporting new cars to the Russian market. In the first quarter of this year, new car sales in Russia fell 28.4% year-on-year to only 277,000 units.
Independent car review: Russia is a mainland independent car companies generally optimistic about the overseas market, in addition to the Great Wall Motors, Lifan, Chery have a layout, taking advantage of the fact that Volkswagen, Renault left Russia, mainland car companies have better opportunities to seize the opportunity to occupy the market.