Lack of medical equipment in the epidemic.

(Text/Zhang Yuxi) "I have meltblown cloth, who has a mask machine?" At the beginning of the China epidemic, BYD, SAIC-GM-Wuling and other car companies jointly turned to masks, which made great contributions to the fight against the epidemic. Recently, the same "drama series" was staged overseas.

By 6 pm on March 23rd, there were 432 14 confirmed cases in COVID-19, USA, and there would be a shortage of medical materials and equipment such as masks and ventilators. On March 22nd, US President Trump said on Twitter that Ford, General Motors and Tesla had been approved to produce ventilators to help alleviate the shortage of medical equipment caused by the coronavirus pneumonia-19 epidemic.

It is understood that as early as 19 March, Tesla CEO Musk (Elon? Musk) said on Twitter that he had discussed ventilator production with Medtronic, and then Medtronic confirmed this through Twitter. On March 23rd, Musk updated the research and development progress of ventilators on Twitter, and announced that the distribution of 1200 ventilators would be completed within one week.

In addition, on March 20, GM said that they are working with Ventec? Life? System cooperation to help improve the productivity of respiratory care equipment, such as ventilators. Ford said in an email on the same day that the company was ready to provide assistance to the government in the production of ventilators and other equipment, and the company had a preliminary discussion with the US government to discuss the feasibility of the scheme.

In addition to American car companies, many European car companies have also joined the ranks of medical equipment such as ventilators. On March 19 local time, Italian automobile manufacturer FCA revealed that it is working with Siare, the country's largest ventilator manufacturer? Engineering talks are helpful to increase the output of ventilators urgently needed in novel coronavirus. In this regard, Siare responded that it is negotiating with FCA, Ferrari and Marelli, a component manufacturer, to produce components that can be used to assemble ventilators.

It is worth noting that these car companies that change ventilators are similar to domestic car companies, and they all belong to "voluntary production". In this regard, Trump even praised on Twitter: "Hurry up and implement it automatically, let us see how powerful you are!"

This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.