With the spread of the new coronavirus epidemic, the automotive industry chain was originally in the off-season is shrouded in a "haze". At present, a number of car companies have announced an extension of the resumption of work, according to the latest production and sales data released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), China's auto sales in January fell by 18% year-on-year.
What's more, passenger car sales fell 20 percent, while the new energy vehicle market also dumbed down.
However, it is worth noting that, after this "epidemic", as the top of the manufacturing industry is actively practicing corporate social responsibility, in addition to the enthusiastic donations and "zero-touch" sale of cars, but also combined with their own strengths to explore more The automobile industry is actively practicing its corporate social responsibility, in addition to making donations and selling cars with "zero-touch".
Shanghai Automobile General Motors, BYD and other "cross-border" production of masks
Since the sudden outbreak of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, a large number of shortages of various types of medical supplies. In such a background, a number of car companies temporarily remodeling production lines, quickly put into a series of protective materials in the production.
On February 6, SAIC-GM-Wuling announced that it would remodel its production line to carry out mask production as soon as possible. Three days later, SAIC-GM-Wuling joint suppliers to produce the first batch of 200,000 masks have come off the production line, the box on the "people need what Wuling what to build"? The slogan "What the people need, Wuling makes" on the box is particularly eye-catching.
It is reported, SAIC-GM-Wuling transformed workshop *** set up 14 mask production line, including 4 N95 mask production line, 10 general medical protective mask production line, daily output is expected to reach more than 1.7 million.
And the auto industry itself is good at cross-border BYD is not willing to lag behind, it is reported, "BYD brand" masks and disinfectant will be around February 17th mass production shipments, mask production capacity of up to 5 million / day, disinfectant production capacity of up to 50,000 bottles / day.
In order to solve the current shortage of masks, to join the production team and the BAIC Group, it is understood that the BAIC Group, the first mask production equipment has been installed and debugging began on February 11, is expected to be completed on February 22, 12 sets of equipment for self-production, completed by the end of February 30 units.
The reason why car companies can quickly into the production of masks and other protective materials, mainly due to the reserves from raw materials, production technology to production sites. Relevant statistics show that the car can be involved in more than 100 industrial sectors, the rate of impact on industry is as high as 20%.
Shanghai Automobile Datsun, BAIC Foton and other expedited production of negative pressure ambulance
In the "anti-epidemic" battle, in addition to a large number of medical supplies, the anti-epidemic front line of the negative pressure ambulance demand is more urgent.
It is reported that at present, including BAIC Foton, Fujian Benz, Jiangling Group, Yutong Group, Brilliance Group, SAIC Datsun, Jiangling Ford, Nanjing Iveco and a number of other first-class domestic commercial vehicle enterprises to expedite the production of negative-pressure ambulances have been sent to the front line of disaster relief, to play their own value.
While the car is a car company's "old profession", but the negative pressure ambulance production conditions and configuration requirements are relatively high, in addition to the harmless treatment of air inside the car after discharge, but also need to be equipped with respiratory, defibrillator, cardiac monitors and other full set of rescue equipment, the installation of ultraviolet disinfection lamps, central oxygen interface, etc., to ensure the realization of the "safe isolation", to ensure the safety of the ambulance. The company's main goal is to ensure that the "safe isolation" is achieved.
As early as January 24, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to BAIC Foton, SAIC Datsun, Brilliance Group and Jiangling Group, a number of negative-pressure ambulance with negative-pressure ambulance vehicle enterprises issued production of negative-pressure ambulance tasks. Among them, SAIC Datsun received the negative pressure ambulance production task, the same day on the start of the production plan scheduling, key equipment and materials pull and staff recall and other specific work, and the negative pressure ambulance was originally a month's production cycle compressed to 10 days, February 5 30 negative pressure ambulance to the front line of epidemic prevention.
Geely R & D "all-round health car"
February 4, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group issued a news release, said it decided to Geely Automobile invested 370 million yuan in advance, to start with the virus prevention function of "all-round health car
According to the report, Geely will invest 370 million yuan to start the research and development of "all-round health car" with virus prevention function.
According to Geely's official introduction, the "Total Health Vehicle" is different from professional medical protection vehicles, and is a consumer-level product mainly for ordinary consumers, which will focus on breaking through the virus prevention function and technology in the car, and effectively inhibit and reduce the infringement of viruses on the human body. At the same time, all materials in the car will not only have high environmental protection, low dispersion, but also through the addition of antibacterial and antimicrobial substances, with the ability to inhibit bacteria or surface sterilization, to achieve a more practical value of the "all-round health".
Geely's "all-around healthy car" is obviously based on Volvo's concepts of "safety," "health" and "environmental protection. It can be said that "Healthy Cockpit" is not a new concept, and there are also comments that the combination of "healthy car" with the concept of anti-virus and "N99" mask function is more of a "healthy car" than a "healthy car". For the sake of communication, it is difficult for automobile products to make viruses invisible.
BMW's 6,500-strong live online conference
No matter how the epidemic rages, life goes on. In the face of the heavy pressure of production and sales, car companies are also actively demand "countermeasures".
Before the official resumption of work, the BMW Group held an unprecedented online video conference for all employees, with the Chinese management team communicating online with about 6,500 employees. At the meeting, Gao Le, president and chief executive of BMW Group Greater China, said he would postpone the resumption of work until Feb. 17th.
In the face of the sudden epidemic, BMW canceled employee business trips and meeting arrangements, and mapped the health of employees through online applications, with an employee survey participation rate of about 97 percent; at the dealer level, the BMW China management team also made a video call with nearly 600 dealers on Feb. 11 and announced a number of business policies to support the dealers' work.
Up to now, according to surging news statistics, including Dongfeng Fengshen, Dongfeng Yueda Kia, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, General Motors, Weimar and a number of other companies will be temporarily pushed back to February 15 or even February 17 after the time of resumption of work, of which, part of the epidemic is in the heart of the region of Hubei, Hubei's automobile enterprises is "indefinite" postponed. The time of resumption of work.
Shanghai Automobile Works (SAIC) executives sell cars live on Valentine's Day
Faced with heavy pressure on sales, many car companies have begun to look for a way out of the epidemic through online contactless forms,
While the SAIC passenger car manufacturer is known as "Fat Head Yu", the SAIC passenger car manufacturer is also known as "Fat Head Yu", which means "Fat Head Yu", and "Fat Head Yu". "Yu Jingmin, deputy general manager of SAIC Passenger Vehicle Company, chose February 14 "Valentine's Day" this day, for the first time in the jittery voice, Tmall, SAIC Rongwei APP, MG?Live?APP and other online platforms, on behalf of the SAIC Rongwei and the MG brand live broadcasting to sell cars.
In this live broadcast, through the SAIC-RW APP and MG?Live?APP, consumers can get points to draw exclusive lucky bags containing UVC portable sterilization lamps, 360° fumigation sterilization service, PM2.5 air conditioning cartridge, car fresh air system, and masks that are hard to find.
Not only SAIC, in fact, including FAW-Volkswagen, Guangzhou Automobile Toyota, Great Wall Motors, BYD, Dongfeng Yueda Kia and many other car companies have launched online car, online car purchase or even live selling or live talking about the car business. Individual car makers said consumers can see the car online, book the car, loan approval, etc., but also door-to-door delivery of the car, online consultation, in addition to the test drive, many of the purchase of the car can be completed online.
But in the view of many industry insiders, online services may be more or "earn yells", for automobiles such as bulk commodities, online sales previously for the actual purchase of the conversion rate is not high.
This article was written by the author of "Auto Home" and does not represent the viewpoint of Auto Home.