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Finishing 丨 Wang He
This week's automotive industry event guide: Tesla brake failure third-party investigation results announced; april new forces list zero run first to win the championship; AIWAYS and NINGDE times on the EVOGO power exchange project cooperation; BYD will recall some Of the Tang DM electric vehicles...
One week of investment and financing
There were 12 financing incidents in the global automotive transportation sector this week, including 8 domestic and 4 foreign. According to the incomplete statistics of Ruibea analysis, the total amount of domestic auto transportation financing this week exceeded 1.5 billion yuan, and the total amount of overseas financing exceeded 300 million US dollars.
Source: Rui Beast Analysis
Policy trends
Beijing took the lead in liberalizing the license for autonomous driving
On April 28, Beijing took the lead in liberalizing the unmanned license for autonomous driving main drivers, becoming the first city in China to open a pilot project for unmanned operation of passenger cars, and the first batch of 14 unmanned vehicles will be invested in demonstration applications. Baidu and Xiaoma Zhixing became the first batch of enterprises to obtain the notice of road test for unmanned demonstration application in the pilot zone, and were allowed to provide the public with autonomous driving travel services with "no safety officer in the main driver's seat and safety officer in the co-driver's seat". The demonstration application subjects that have obtained the notice can carry out unmanned autonomous driving manned demonstration applications on open roads within 60 square kilometers of the Beijing High-level Autonomous Driving Demonstration Zone.
Big Company & Big Event
Tesla brake failure? Third-party findings are published
In response to the previous Tesla owner said that the Model 3 he was driving automatically accelerated to 170km/h at the second high speed of Beijing Airport, and the brake failed and then rear-ended four cars in a row, the investigation of the incident has made the latest progress. Tesla responded to the incident, which caused the rear-end accident caused by the driver accidentally stepping on the accelerator pedal for a long time, and at the same time, the relevant state departments, parties, third-party experts and Tesla, the four parties jointly witnessed the on-site EDR data retrieval of the accident vehicle on April 27. The results showed that the EDR data was consistent with the conclusion of the background data analysis, confirming that the accident was caused by the driver's misoperation.
April New Forces List: Zero Run First Championship Ideal drops to fifth
On May 1, Weilai, Ideal, Xiaopeng, Zero Run, Extreme Krypton, and Nezha successively released their April deliveries.
In April, the delivery volume of zero-run cars was 9,087 units, down 9.7% from the previous month, surpassing "Wei XiaoLi Na" to win the championship for the first time, Xiaopeng Automobile delivered 9,002 vehicles, winning the second place, and Nezha Automobile delivered 8813 vehicles, winning the third place.
NIO delivered 5,074 vehicles, up one place to fourth, and Ideal Delivered 4,174 vehicles, dropping from third in March to fifth in April.
AIWAYS Automobile and CATL cooperated on the EVOGO power exchange project
AIWAYS Automobile and NINGDE Times New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. signed the EVOGO power exchange project cooperation framework agreement to jointly expand the separation of vehicle and electricity and create a new benchmark for the power exchange model. According to the cooperation agreement, the two parties will jointly develop a combined power-swap model based on the AIWAYS U5, the first model of AIWAYS, and plan to introduce it to the market in the fourth quarter of 2022.
Huawei automotive business executive Cai Jianyong joins CATL
On April 29, Cai Jianyong, general manager of the intelligent vehicle control field of Huawei's intelligent car solution BU, has left his job and joined CATL to take charge of the CTC battery chassis integration business.
BYD will recall some Of the Don DM electric vehicles
On April 29, BYD Automotive Industry Co., Ltd. filed a recall plan with the State Administration for Market Regulations in accordance with the requirements of the Regulations on the Administration of recalls of defective automobile products and the Implementation Measures for the Administration of the Recall of Defective Automobile Products. Decided to recall a total of 9,663 electric vehicles of some Tang DM models produced from September 2, 2021 to March 14, 2022, starting from April 29, 2022.
Avita announced a new round of valuations of $6.26 billion
On April 29, Avita Technology announced that the new round of valuation growth to 6.26 billion yuan, achieving nearly 7 times the growth. This is also the second valuation disclosure of Avita Technology's valuation of 788.2 million yuan (based on the income method, the valuation base date is December 31, 2020) disclosed by Avita Technology for the first time in the form of a public listing on November 5, 2021.
New car launches & new technologies
NIO ET5
On April 29, on the first anniversary of the start of construction of the NeoPark Xinqiao Intelligent Electric Vehicle Industrial Park, the first batch of full-process production line trial vehicles of ET5 were officially rolled off the production line at the second production base of Niopark in the park.
Lantu Dreamer
As the second mass production model created by the Lantu brand, Lantu Dreamer is positioned as a medium and large MPV, with the pre-price range of the seven-seat version of the new car being 380,000-480,000 yuan, while the four-seat customized version pre-priced from 600,000 yuan will be listed on May 7 and delivered in the third quarter (as soon as July).