A few days ago, Ideal Auto released a delivery delay statement on the official app, saying that since the end of March, due to the requirements of epidemic prevention and control, ideal cars are partly located in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai areas of the supply chain enterprises can not supply. As a result, the production of the ideal car in April had a great impact, resulting in the delay in the delivery of new cars for some users.
It is reported that Ideal Automobile is working with supply chain enterprises to actively restore production capacity under the requirements of meeting the requirements of epidemic prevention and control. It is expected that the delivery delay time will be tried to be controlled within 3 weeks.
At this stage, affected by the epidemic in Shanghai, the major automotive supply chain enterprises in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai are in a state of slow travel or strengthening control, and the supply chain problems caused by the suspension of production and work of these enterprises have seriously interfered with the product manufacturing and processing links of the vehicle factory, and the ideal car has also been seriously affected.
According to the owners who ordered in the Zhengzhou area, the ideal ONE they purchased in late February still had no delivery information update as of April 21, and when their waiting time had been as long as 8 weeks, the official delivery expected time was still displayed as 5-7 weeks. Another owner of the order revealed in the official community that the new car he ordered on March 28 is expected to be picked up until mid-May. In summary, the actual extension time is obviously longer than ideal car's claim to control the extension time within 3 weeks.
In addition, Li Xiang, the founder of Ideal Automobile, expressed his views on the current supply chain problems, he believes that in addition to solving their own parts supply problems, car companies also need to analyze and check the survival problems of small and medium-sized parts suppliers at the third, fourth and fifth levels in advance, and provide assistance and support to these suppliers who are not within the scope of cooperation.
At present, with the opening of guidelines for the resumption of work and production in Shanghai, Changchun and other places, Many vehicle factories such as Tesla, Weilai, and FAW Group have announced the resumption of work, and employees of related parts suppliers have also returned to work, and the supply chain problems of the automotive industry have been alleviated to a certain extent.