Tesla or in Shanghai to build a new factory, Apple car 660,000, Faraday future has not yet rolled off the production line?

E week memorabilia, weekly new melon. In the first half of this week, most of the officials may be in the King's Canyon, islands, rainforests, snow, deserts, clearing lines, pushing crystals, and opposing steel guns. Most of the second half of the week was spent thinking about how to ensure a safe arrival at the company.

Probably feeling the urgent need for new cars, this week Tesla broke out that it will set up a second factory in Shanghai. At the same time, Apple Cars is finally ushering in new developments: Apple Cars is positioned in the high-end market of more than $100,000, and will release its first electric car as soon as the end of 2024.

Of course, there is also a blockbuster news this week, Faraday Future Weibo released a video about Faraday Future CEO Dr. Bi Fukang leading the team to learn about the latest developments in FF 91 at the Hanford factory, the video mentioned: The FF 91 project is advancing as planned, the testing and verification work is on schedule, we are on the right track, and will launch FF 91 in the third quarter of 2022.

Tesla was exposed or will set up a second factory in Shanghai

Once imported brands wanted to build factories in China, they must have local brands to joint venture with them. Tesla is not the case, not only is it the first wholly-owned factory in China, but it has also achieved low-cost land and low-interest loans.

As for why such favorable conditions were offered for it, it is mainly to let Tesla trigger the "catfish effect". Of course, after the establishment of Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory, it has indeed handed over a good report card.

It is understood that Tesla's Shanghai factory is Tesla's second gigafactory overseas, mainly producing two models, the model 3 and the SUV Model Y. In 2021, Tesla's Shanghai factory delivered 484,000 vehicles, an increase of 235% year-on-year, accounting for 51.7% of Tesla's total global deliveries, of which 321,000 units were sold in China, and 163,000 units were mainly exported to Japan, Europe and other countries.

In other words, the super factory established in Shanghai not only helped Tesla open up the domestic market, but also provided sufficient guarantee for its further expansion of overseas markets.

For this year's annual delivery target, Tesla CEO Musk has said that Tesla's deliveries will increase by 50% this year. Taking Tesla's total sales of 936,000 in 2021, this means that Tesla needs to deliver 1.4 million new cars this year.

As for the news that Tesla will set up a second factory in Shanghai, in fact, as early as February 24 this year, Reuters reported that according to two people familiar with the matter, Tesla plans to start building a new factory in Shanghai as early as March to more than double China's production capacity to meet the growing demand of China's automobile and export markets.

At that time, in response to such news, Tesla's global vice president Tao Lin also posted a rumor on Weibo, saying: "Tesla is very honored to contribute to the development of China's new energy industry, and will continue to firmly increase investment in China." Recently, I have received many media inquiries about the second factory, and I cannot reply to them one by one. Respectfully, the current information on the Internet about the location of Tesla's second factory is not true. Thank you to all the friends who care about and support Tesla's development! ”

However, it may be affected by the epidemic, and it is not an easy task for Musk to complete the preset goals. The Shanghai factory, Tesla's most important overseas production base, also cut production by about 50,000 units due to the shutdown of the epidemic. However, seeing the Shanghai government's help for Tesla to resume work may have prompted Musk's idea of building a new factory.

On May 3, according to Reuters, Tesla China will build a second plant in Shanghai, which will increase the annual production capacity of 450,000 vehicles. It is understood that the news stemmed from Reuters seeing a thank-you letter written by Tesla to the Shanghai government. Tesla thanked Lingang officials for their support and disclosed that it would further expand its factory in Shanghai, saying in the letter that the company would build a new factory on land near the same area that is poised to increase annual production capacity of 450,000 vehicles, including the Model 3 and Model Y, as "the world's largest auto export hub."

Apple cars are coming?

What's the hardest product for Apple to buy? Just released iPhone? The earliest Apple computers? In fact, as long as you have money, you can buy these, and you can't buy them with money, which is an Apple car that has been lost for about 8 years.

In fact, as early as 2014, Apple launched the "Project Titan", and more than 1,000 automotive engineers began to develop Apple cars. With funds, technology, traffic, and audiences, Apple Cars is a bit difficult to produce compared to domestic new power brands, which contain real gold spoons.

Apple's plan to build a car can be described as inexhaustible. Today, there is very little news about Apple cars, but the news of the layoffs of the "Titan Plan" is not a minority, and in January 2019, Apple announced that it would lay off 200 employees of the "Titan Plan".

At the beginning of this year, Guo Mingxi, an analyst at Tianfeng Securities, broke the news on social media: Apple's auto team has been disbanded for some time. If you want to mass-produce Apple Car in 2025, you need to reorganize your team within 3 to 6 months.

However, this team restructuring is to speed up the process of Apple's car manufacturing. It is reported that Apple has hired Desi Ujkashevic, a senior Ford executive, to take charge of Apple's electric vehicle plan, which also means that Apple has once again stepped up the development of electric vehicles.

Then on Wednesday, according to the Financial Associated Press and other media reports, the development of Apple's car is underway, the official release will still be in 2025 or the end of 2024, Apple car is likely to entrust the long-term partner who assembles the iPhone Hon Hai Group (that is, the parent company of "Foxconn") to be responsible for the assembly and production of its car.

According to the report, industry insiders said that Apple will not launch a mass-market electric vehicle, and its electric vehicle positioning will be a high-end market of $100,000 (about 660,000 yuan) and above, competing with Tesla's Model S (official price of 88.999-105.999 million yuan). The report also mentioned the materials made by Apple cars, including the use of a large number of metal materials titanium alloys and the use of iPhones without key to unlock.

Is Faraday's future still there?

When I was a child, I watched the story of the wolf coming, and I may not think so. Nowadays, the story of the future of The view of Ladi may have some fatigue, always feel that last week was OK, this week is not OK, after a week there is good, it is difficult to distinguish between true and false over and over again.

On Wednesday, Faraday Future Weibo posted a video about Faraday Future CEO Dr. Bi Fukang leading the team to learn about the latest developments in FF 91 at the Hanford plant, mentioning that the FF 91 project is progressing as planned, the testing and verification work is on schedule, and we are on the right track to launch FF 91 in the third quarter of 2022.

Jia Yueting once said on Weibo that the global limited edition of 300 units of FF 91 Futurist Alliance has been sold out. The next step is to complete the delivery of products on time, with high quality and high product strength, and to subvert the traditional ultra-luxury brands such as S Maybach, Ferrari and Bentley. Subsequently, FF officially announced that it has completed 3653 kilometers of long-distance road testing in the United States, and it also said that it plans to significantly expand the number of employees in the next 12 months and move towards the goal of delivering FF91 in 2022.

Despite the favorable video flow, there is not much time left for Faraday's future. Previously, the US short-selling agency said that Faraday Future did not seem to be able to deliver the mass production model in July this year, and Jia Yueting also angrily complained about it.

Now, there are only two months before The July in Jia Yueting's mouth, and it is still unknown whether FF91 can open the upper production line.