Development and manufacturing first, car companies to support the "front line"
It is worth mentioning that, in the process of prevention and control of the new coronavirus outbreak, such a new term into the field of vision - negative pressure ambulance. As the guardian of life "the most expensive mask", negative pressure ambulance, as the name suggests, and ordinary ambulances, the biggest difference is that it can realize the "negative pressure isolation". This model is able to implement emergency treatment of new and sudden infectious diseases, so that the external environment from contamination, to prevent the further spread of the epidemic, to complete the safe isolation of major infectious patients and transfer. January 24, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Consumer Goods Industry Division of a number of domestic car companies issued an urgent production of negative-pressure ambulance emergency notification.
Then the question arises: how to make a negative pressure ambulance? How long does it take? Normal production of a negative pressure ambulance, through the base type vehicle (can be derived from a variety of different types and uses of vehicles on the chassis of the basic type of armored vehicles) production, modification of two steps. In accordance with the conventional steps, in which the base vehicle production generally takes 2 weeks, while the negative pressure ambulance modification, need to go through the foam insulation treatment, wiring, interior installation, electrical, medical equipment installation, negative pressure facilities installation and so on a number of steps, but also lasted 2 weeks. And under the premise of quality assurance, to shorten the 30-day work period to 10 days, for each enterprise is undoubtedly a huge challenge.
Following the first batch of 26 million donations, BAIC Group combined its own resources to once again "accurate" aid, combined with BAIC Foton and other 10 of its automotive units **** with the funding procurement of 66 vehicles to serve the epidemic area. Among them, 40 Foton Tuyano negative-pressure ambulances will be donated as the main model for the service of the infected area.
Chery Automobile, in addition to the donation of 10 million yuan, but also in the first day of the New Year emergency deployment of the restoration of the car factory work, the production of negative pressure type of ambulance vehicles dedicated to rescue, the current 20 vehicles are working overtime to catch up with the work.
Shanghai Automobile Maxus received this "emergency notice" and assigned this task to the Wuxi branch for production. In addition to the production of 60 negative-pressure ambulance vehicles, on January 23rd, at the request of Wuhan's transportation department, Wuhan has set up a fleet of epidemic prevention and control volunteers, and the first batch of the fleet is made up of 100 MAXUS?G10, which are already in Wuhan to help fight against the epidemic.
In addition, Brilliance Group, after receiving the task of manufacturing negative pressure ambulances from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), immediately convened an emergency production coordination meeting and set itself the target of "30 units in 20 days". At present, engineers and employees on the production line are racing against time.
In addition to the negative-pressure ambulance, which demonstrates the manufacturing capability of the car company, Geely has decided to invest 370 million yuan to start the research and development of the "all-around healthy car" with virus prevention function. The "All-round Healthy Car" is a consumer-grade product mainly for ordinary consumers, and will focus on breaking through the virus prevention function and technology in the car to effectively inhibit and reduce the virus against human body, and the air-conditioning system, handles, buttons and other systems in the car will also have the ability to inhibit bacteria or surface sterilization. This not only means that a new dimension of evaluation has been added to the driving safety, but also will lead the new development direction of the current automotive R&D field.
Multiple car companies to launch line service, "snow in the charcoal" in time
Expedited production of negative pressure ambulance is the hard power, then the war epidemic, car companies to organize the travel support is the "soft power".
Dongfeng Motor is in the main battlefield against the epidemic, in addition to the huge donations, but also in the face of danger to set up a 1,000-vehicle Dongfeng travel protection fleet, directed to the community residents to provide door-to-door delivery of food, medicines, meals and other emergency services for residents. Dongfeng Travel has also set up a "Dongfeng Travel Employee Pioneer Team" consisting of 50 employees in Han to ensure the orientation of community service work. In addition, in order to do a good job of preventing and combating epidemics, Dongfeng Mobility, a subsidiary of Dongfeng Motor, set up an epidemic emergency response team on January 21, and activated an emergency response plan for its online taxi, cab and time-share business.
At the same time, on January 28, the Great Wall's OU travel, set up "OU travel to combat the epidemic emergency protection fleet", the fleet 24-hour standby for medical personnel, the command department to provide personnel pick-up and drop-off, medical material transportation and other necessary transportation services to protect.
Cao Cao Travel, a subsidiary of Geely, has also set up a fleet of vehicles to provide free travel services for residents who need to go out. And, Geely Holding Group's Geely brand will also donate 50 MPVs, Geely Jiaji, to the Wuhan New Crown Pneumonia Prevention and Control Command for use in the unified transportation deployment of the local epidemic prevention and control department.
In addition, a number of car companies for the user's travel have launched a "warm heart service". For example, Great Wall Motors launched for the epidemic prevention and control of the user "worry-free car five guarantees" and "five heart care action". Changan Auchan launched 7X24-hour online services, including online car selection, car purchase, car use and car repair services. Dongfeng Yueda Kia launched the "Three Commitments, Nine Actions" initiative. Volkswagen and Skoda brands quickly launched brand care activities. Dongfeng Nissan launched the "peace of mind to the store" marketing activities and so on.
At the same time, there are also Internet companies are trying to improve the relevant services to enhance the strength and efficiency of the protection of the epidemic between the T3 travel, Dongfeng travel, Shenzhou rent a car, Shouqi car, Cao Cao travel, FAW travel, BAIC new energy light to enjoy the travel of a number of technology and mobility platforms to respond positively, and have set up emergency prevention and control of security fleet.
Automobile Yu commented
The epidemic is now, no one is an island, and no Chinese can stay out of it. The whole society is working together, and with the help of the whole country, we will be able to get through this difficult time. From the action of the car companies, although the automotive industry has entered the most difficult period, but the major car companies have to support the prevention and treatment of the national epidemic, to contribute to the community, which in the eyes of consumers are worthy of recognition. At the same time, after the epidemic, automotive pre-sales, after-sales will certainly appear more "cloud services", automotive sales model, service model will become more rich and diverse.
This article comes from the author of the automobile home, does not represent the views of the automobile home position.