On August 27th, on the eve of the release of interim results in 2020, Evergrande Health announced that the company name was officially changed from "Evergrande Health Industry Group Co., Ltd." to "China Evergrande New Energy Automobile Group Co., Ltd." from September 1 day. The abbreviation was changed from "Evergrande Health" to "Evergrande Automobile".
The name change indicates that Evergrande Health's main business has become a new energy vehicle, and Xu Jiayin is one step closer to his dream of building a car. The new energy vehicle business still needs constant blood transfusion from Evergrande Group. According to official data, it is estimated that Evergrande will continue to invest 2.7 billion yuan, 202 1 9 billion yuan, and another11700 million yuan in building cars in the second half of this year. After the mass production and sales of Evergrande Automobile, the Group will no longer invest. After a series of generous "buy buy Buy" and "Circle", Evergrande's car-making business began to enter the next stage.
Hyundai Motor will launch nine new cars in China before the end of 20021.
On August 30th, local time, South Korea's largest automobile manufacturer announced that it would launch nine new models in China from the launch of the sports utility vehicle Palisade to 202 1 next month. In addition to Palisade, Hyundai Motor will launch three cars, three recreational vehicles and two electric vehicles in China. Hyundai Motor hopes that its sales in China will rebound after experiencing a sharp decline in recent years.
The three cars launched by this automobile manufacturer in China market include the new Elantra, the famous map and the modified version of Fista, and Custo will join its recreational vehicle lineup. MPV，？ Ix35 modified and new Tucson three models. In addition, Hyundai will also launch the famous maps EV and Ioniq? 5 two electric vehicles, including Ioniq? 5 is the first modern electric vehicle based on its new platform E-GMP. It is also an ultra-small crossover utility vehicle, which will be launched early next year.
Geely's two generals have been rotated again.
Feng Qingfeng, vice president of Geely Automobile Group, who just took over the marketing of Geely brand and Geometric brand six months ago, will be the full-time director and global CEO of Lotus Group, responsible for the global business development of Lotus Group, and will no longer hold the position of Geely marketing system. The marketing of Geely and Geometry will be handled by Lin Jie, vice president of Geely Automobile Group, who is now in charge of the Lexus brand.
Geely Automobile said that Lotus is a world-renowned luxury high-performance automobile brand strategically invested by Geely Holding Group. This arrangement aims to accelerate the implementation of Lotus from strategic planning, product research and development to production delivery, business model and marketing. Feng Qingfeng has rich experience in automobile R&D, manufacturing, sales and management. After nearly half a year's rotation in the marketing system, I have a better understanding of the needs of the market and users and accumulated more marketing management experience. Feng Qingfeng's attention to the global business development of Lotus will help accelerate the implementation of Lotus from strategic planning, product research and development to production delivery, business model and marketing.
Two spontaneous combustion incidents of electric vehicles occurred in one week in BAIC New Energy.
On August 29th, according to local media reports in Changsha, the Beiqi electric vehicle that caught fire was located opposite Yongji Hospital in Wanjiali Road (Changsha). After receiving the early warning order, the fire rescue station quickly dispatched two vehicles 15 officers and men to the scene. The commander arranged for two players to break the door under the cover of water guns.
Subsequently, the fire station's 22-ton foam water tank fire truck reinforced the scene to carry out fire fighting operations. At present, the fire has been extinguished and no information on casualties has been received. Judging from the front face of the vehicle, the logo on the front of the vehicle is the North Automobile logo, which is not the latest Beijing logo replaced by BAIC, but probably the BAIC EU500 model.
It is worth noting that this is the second fire incident of BAIC new energy vehicle in a week. On August 20th, according to a video, another EX360 electric vehicle of BAIC New Energy caught fire and exploded at the charging station in Sanming City, Fujian Province. After the incident, from the scene, the doors, trunk lids and other parts of the vehicles involved were scattered all over the place, and the vehicles were seriously damaged. Because the surrounding vehicles were evacuated from the scene in time, the firefighters on the scene were far away when the vehicles exploded, causing no further injury.
SAIC has reached a cooperation with Horizon.
On August 29th, SAIC recently signed a contract with Beijing Horizon Information Technology Co., Ltd. to launch the "Joint Laboratory of SAIC and Horizon Artificial Intelligence". The two sides will carry out comprehensive and in-depth cooperation in the field of intelligent networking technology, jointly develop future-oriented artificial intelligence technology, and create intelligent networking terminal applications with SAIC brand characteristics.
SAIC will provide rich business scenarios and big data for the research and development of intelligent networking technology. Horizon will give full play to the core technical ability of "chip+algorithm+tool chain", and the two sides will carry out comprehensive and in-depth cooperation in the field of intelligent networking technology. The research and development results of the joint laboratory will be the first to be applied to the new models released by SAIC.
Android 1 1 system can wirelessly connect the car Android multimedia.
Recently, it was learned that the official version of Android 1 1 is expected to be officially released in 2020, and the mobile phone equipped with the new system will be wirelessly connected to the Android car system (Android? Auto), convenient for drivers to use.
The existing Android mobile phone can be connected to the Android car system through the data cable, and can navigate and listen to music on the big screen of the car. Google claims that any smartphone running Android 1 1.0 system can be wirelessly connected to the Android in-vehicle system. When the Android 1 1 system is released for public beta, LG, Motorola and Yijia mobile phones can also realize this function.
Didi's new vest "Flower Pig Taxi" has been planted.
Recently, a network car software called Flower Pig Taxi has been madly swiping the screen in the circle of friends. Under the banner of "the lowest price in the whole network", fancy preferential activities were launched, which attracted the attention of many passengers and drivers and grew very fast.
However, with the rapid expansion and rise of new brands, Huahu has been questioned as "new clothes hitchhiking" and compliance issues have also come back. Nanjing and Hefei were the first to inform China Piglet that it was illegal, and China Piglet didn't even get a license to operate a car in Hefei. Not long after, Qingdao also issued a license for Flower Pig not to operate an online car, and also seized more than 20 black cars owned by Flower Pig!
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