[Car Night News]: Geely will build an anti-virus "magic car"

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Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. held hands with Tesla, and its share price rose sharply.

Affected by the epidemic, more than 2,900 A shares fell on the first day (February 3). However, in a "green", the opening of contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. not only did not go down, but once approached the daily limit. As of today's close, Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. has the latest market value of 328.8 billion yuan, making it the company with the highest market value on the Growth Enterprise Market.

On February 3rd, Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. announced that it had signed an agreement with Tesla (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., and Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. would supply lithium-ion power battery products to Tesla. Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. said in the announcement that the specific procurement situation will be determined in the form of orders according to its own needs, and the agreement does not impose mandatory restrictions on Tesla's procurement quantity. The final sales amount is subject to the actual settlement of the purchase order issued by Tesla, and the supply period is from July 2020 1 day to June 30, 2022.

Invest 370 million in advance! Geely will build an anti-virus "magic car"

At present, fighting the novel coronavirus epidemic has become a top priority for the whole country, and all enterprises are trying their best to help the "war epidemic". On February 4th, Geely Holding Group decided that Geely Automobile would invest 370 million yuan in advance to start the research and development of "all-round health car" with virus prevention function. Previously, Geely Holding Group had joined hands with Li Shufu Public Welfare Foundation on June 28th, 65438 to set up a 200 million yuan special fund for prevention and control of new pneumonia epidemic.

It is understood that the "all-around health car" will be different from the professional medical protection car, and it is a consumer-grade product mainly for ordinary consumers. It not only has the existing functions of Geely automobile products, such as isolating harmful substances from the outside air and purifying the air in the car quickly and efficiently, but also will focus on breaking through the virus prevention functions and technologies in the car to effectively inhibit and reduce the harm of the virus to the human body. At the same time, all the materials in the car are not only environmentally friendly and low-emission, but also have the ability to inhibit bacteria or surface sterilization by adding bacteriostatic and antibacterial substances, thus achieving more practical "all-round health".

The suspension time of Renault Wuhan factory was extended to February 13.

On February 4th, a Renault spokesman said that the company would extend the shutdown time of its factory in Wuhan, China until February 13, in order to cooperate with the China government's guidance on the novel coronavirus epidemic.

Previously, Renault had said that the factory of the company and Dongfeng Group in Wuhan, Hubei Province would stop production until February 9 and resume production on February 10. However, with the development of the epidemic, the Hubei provincial government has announced that the Lunar New Year holiday will be extended to February 13 to curb the outbreak of novel coronavirus, and Renault has also postponed the start of the Wuhan factory to February 13.

Britain announced that it would ban the sale of fuel-powered cars and hybrid models of hybrid and plug-in cars in 2035.

On February 4th, Reuters reported that the British government plans to ban the sale of all cars with gasoline and diesel engines, including hybrid cars and plug-in hybrid cars, by 2035. In 20 18, the British government announced that it would ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel vehicles from 2040. At that time, hybrid cars, plug-in hybrid cars and cars with carbon dioxide emissions below 75g/km were still allowed on the road. Now, the new measures will ban the sale of any non-zero-emission vehicles, five years ahead of schedule.

It is understood that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (Boris? Johnson will announce the plan. The plan to ban the sale of fuel vehicles from 2035 is still in the stage of soliciting opinions. The British government suggested that "if zero emissions can be achieved faster", the ban strategy can be implemented in advance from 2035.

Toyota and Panasonic jointly set up a joint venture company and formally entered the field of power batteries.

On February 3rd, Toyota announced that it would establish a joint venture with Panasonic to produce power batteries for electric vehicles. The name of the joint venture company is "Taixing Energy Solutions Co., Ltd.", which is to be established on April 1 2020 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Among them, Toyota Motor holds 5 1%, Panasonic holds 49%, and the number of employees is about 5 100 (including 2,400 China subsidiaries).

The business scope of the joint venture company is to develop, manufacture and sell large-capacity/high-output square lithium-ion batteries for vehicles; Development, manufacture and sales of all-solid-state batteries for vehicles. According to the previous plan, Panasonic will transfer most of its battery-related equipment and facilities in Japan and China to the joint venture company, while the company that produces batteries for Tesla will still be owned by Panasonic.

Didi sends and receives medical workers free of charge to support the prevention and control of epidemic situation in Beijing.

On February 3, Didi Chuxing announced that in order to support the epidemic prevention and control work in Beijing, with the support and guidance of Beijing Medical Association, Didi Chuxing and Beijing Medical Association jointly announced the establishment of a "medical security convoy" in Beijing to provide free shuttle service for medical staff attending designated hospitals announced by Beijing.

According to the guidance of the Medical Association, starting from February 4th, the motorcade will be piloted in Beijing You 'an Hospital affiliated to Beijing Capital Medical University and beijing ditan hospital affiliated to Beijing Capital Medical University, and then gradually extended to other hospitals in Beijing.

Affected by the epidemic, many car companies launched dealer support policies.

Faced with the new pneumonia epidemic, automobile manufacturers began to choose to stand with dealers, and many brands have introduced measures to reduce the pressure on dealers. On February 2nd, Volvo Cars took the lead in announcing the launch of dealer policies such as not setting February sales targets, directly granting personnel subsidies to dealer employees, suspending the assessment of new 4S stores, and strengthening online marketing investment.

Volkswagen, Ford, Jaguar Land Rover, Hyundai and other brands canceled the first quarter sales assessment; FAW Pentium extended T99' s special rebate subsidy to February 29th; Guangzhou Automobile Chuanqi canceled the dealer's task of picking up the car, enjoyed the reward of picking up the car, and provided an interest-free period of 30 days for inventory financing. For Hubei Province, where the epidemic situation is more serious, car companies will generally provide more targeted measures. Audi, Pentium, BAIC and other brands have set up love convoys to pick up and drop off medical workers in Hubei Province. Beiqi Off-road provides 50% purchase tax subsidy and six epidemic prevention measures for medical staff to ensure travel safety.

Brands such as FAW Pentium, GAC Chuanqi, Dongfeng Nissan and BYD have already issued relevant dealer policies, and relevant policies of manufacturers such as BAIC, Guangqi Honda, Great Wall Motor, Chery Jiewei, Lexus, Dongfeng Shen Feng and Dongfeng Qichen are also being formulated. At present, about 20 car companies have joined this team. Based on the support policies put forward by various car companies, it can be roughly divided into reducing or canceling the sales assessment in February or the first quarter, subsidizing dealers or stock discounts, financial support, online customer service, door-to-door test drive or car pick-up, and extending the warranty period.

Tesla updates the warranty terms, and the battery warranty is 8 years and 240,000 kilometers.

Recently, Tesla updated the warranty terms. In terms of battery warranty, we have formulated a more sincere warranty policy. Among them, models? S and Model? What are the battery warranty policies for model X? 8? Year or? 15? 10000 miles (about 24 1000 kilometers), whichever expires first.

And then what? Models? 3? And then what? Models? y? The battery warranty of the model is 8 years or 6.5438+0.2 million miles (about 6.5438+0.93 million kilometers). Same model? S and Model? Like the X model, the battery is guaranteed to remain 70% during the warranty period. % of the battery capacity.

The specific update information is attached:

Models? S and Model? x? :8? Year or? 150? 000? Miles, whichever expires first, at least the lowest within the warranty period? 70? % of the battery capacity (except in? 20 15? The original made a few years ago. 60? Kwh battery, warranty? 8? Year or? 150? 000? Km, whichever comes first);

Standard mileage edition or standard mileage plus edition (standard? Or? Standard? Range? Plus)? Models? 3? And then what? Models? y? :8? Year or? 10? Ten thousand miles, whichever comes first, at least within the warranty period? 70? % battery capacity;

Long mileage version or high performance version (long? Range? Or? Performance)? Models? 3? And then what? Models? y? :8? Year or? 120? 000? Mileage, whichever comes first, at least within the warranty period? 70? % of the battery capacity.

Invest 2 10 billion to produce unmanned vehicles in GM's renovation plant.

A few days ago, General Motors plans to invest another $2.2 billion (about RMB 65.438+054 billion) to transform a car factory in Detroit, USA, where resources are not fully utilized. The transformed factory is mainly used to produce electric cars and self-driving cars.

In a statement, GM pointed out that the Detroit plant will manufacture its first electric pickup truck later in 20021year and produce self-driving connected vehicles for the Cruise business unit. It is reported that the factory will produce a variety of electric vehicles, and the production task of electric pickup trucks is at the forefront. According to the previous GMC official press release, GMC will release a product called Hummer? EV's pure electric pickup truck, which is also GM's first pure electric pickup truck. The factory will also produce the autonomous driving model Cruise? Origin, this model is an electric car without steering wheel and pedals, and it is expected to be put into production in 2022.

The impact of Britain's exit from the European Union has affected major automobile companies.

After a series of bills and votes, until June 30, 2020, the EU officially approved Britain's withdrawal from the EU. Britain's withdrawal from the European Union will have a certain impact on the automobile industry, mainly in trade, tariffs, transportation and personnel. In this regard, BMW, Jaguar Land Rover and Nissan have responded urgently, or will consider postponing research and development plans and mass layoffs, with the aim of controlling costs as much as possible after Britain leaves the EU.

According to foreign media reports, due to Britain's withdrawal from the European Union, BMW postponed the research and development plan of a new generation of MINI models in order to reduce costs; Jaguar Land Rover in Halliwood and vauxhall in Ellesmere Port plan to eliminate thousands of jobs there. However, Nissan has issued a statement that it will continue to invest in the UK to serve the European market.

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