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Along with the release of the delivery data of the new forces to build cars, there are also many news of official price cuts.

On September 1st, Ideality, Weilai, Tucki and other new car-making forces all announced the delivery results in August. LI won the crown again with the achievement of 34,900 vehicles, Weilai Automobile ranked second with 19,300 vehicles delivered, and the zero-running automobile ranked third with 14,200 vehicles delivered. The top three deliveries in August were the same as those in July.

It is worth noting that the delivery volume of AITO jointly developed by Huawei and Cyrus is 5,018 vehicles, which has been at the bottom of the seven new forces counted for six consecutive months.

The ideal 34,900 cars won the championship, and AITO asked the bottom of 5,018 cars.

Specifically, in August, LI delivered a total of 34,900 new cars, a year-on-year increase of 663.8%. From January to August this year, the cumulative delivery volume in LI has reached 208,200 vehicles. From the perspective of the whole year, the delivery volume of LI showed a steady upward trend, from 15,100 vehicles at the beginning of the year to 34,900 vehicles in August.

It is worth noting that in August, the three models of Ideal L7, Ideal L8 and Ideal L9 all achieved a monthly delivery of over 10,000 vehicles. Among them, the Ideal L9 has delivered more than 100,000 vehicles since it was first rolled off the assembly line in August 2022.

Weilai Automobile, which achieved a breakthrough of 20,000 vehicles last month, delivered a slight decline this month, and delivered 19,300 vehicles in August, an increase of 81% year-on-year. From January to August 2023, Weilai delivered a total of 94,400 new cars, with a cumulative delivery of 383,900 in history.

Zero-run cars delivered 14,200 vehicles in August, of which C-series models with higher gross profit accounted for over 85%, and C11 cars delivered over 10,000 vehicles in a single month. According to the zero-run car, in the first half of 2023, the zero-run car accurately predicted the market trend and focused on the popular consumer market of 150,000-200,000 yuan.

Xpeng Motors delivered 13,700 new cars in August, up 24% from the previous month and 43% year-on-year. In the first half of this year, the sales volume of Xpeng Motors has been below 10,000 vehicles. With the release of the good news of cooperation with Volkswagen and Didi, its market performance has also been rising all the way, with delivery exceeding 10,000 vehicles for two consecutive months in July and August.

Tucki G6, a new model, contributed to the increase in delivery volume. In August, Tucki G6 delivered 7,068 vehicles, an increase of 80% from the previous month, and the cumulative delivery exceeded 11,000 vehicles. According to Tucki, thanks to the full preparation in the early stage and the rapid response from the supply, production and delivery sides, the G6 production capacity has achieved remarkable climbing effect, and the delivery milestone of 10,000 units was reached only 45 days after the delivery. At present, Xpeng Motors is further enhancing G6 production capacity and speeding up the delivery of orders in hand.

Geely delivered 12,300 vehicles in August, a year-on-year increase of 71.7%; By the end of August, a total of 144,900 vehicles had been delivered.

Nezha Automobile delivered a total of 12,100 vehicles in August, up 21% month-on-month and down 24.44% year-on-year. A few days ago, Nezha Auto announced on the official WeChat WeChat official account that it had completed the Crossover round of financing, with a total amount of 7 billion yuan, but did not disclose more details such as investors.

In August, AITO series delivered 5018 new cars. AITO Automobile said that on August 26th, AITO asked about the five new M7 seats officially unveiled at Chengdu Auto Show and opened small orders, with the pre-sale price starting at 258,000 yuan, and the order had exceeded 5,000 by August 31st. The owner is cost-effective and will be officially released and delivered on September 12.

The new forces officially announced price cuts and Tesla released new cars. Is the price war really coming?

In addition to releasing the delivery volume as scheduled, on September 1, many new car-making forces announced official preferential price reduction policies as agreed in advance.

Xpeng Motors announced that from now until September 30th, the limited-time preferential car purchase policy will be launched for all new P7i models. Consumers can choose 24 preferential car purchase schemes with zero interest or 10,000 yuan for the final payment, and at the same time, they can upgrade the original Dana Confidence series audio with a value of 6,000 yuan for free.

Weilai also announced the launch of the preferential policy of limited-time car purchase in September. Users who pay a deposit to buy Weilai’s new car from September 1 to September 30, 2023 will receive a gift package of 10,000 yuan after picking up the car, including 30 coupons for power exchange experience, 2,000 yuan coupons for car shopping malls, NOP+1 year free use right worth 4,560 yuan and 10,000 car purchase points.

The official subsidy for retail T03 is as high as 10,000 yuan, and the starting price is as low as 49,900 yuan. Previously, the zero-run C-series models have been greatly reduced in price, and the price of active models has been reduced by 10,000-20,000 yuan.

Two days ago, LI just released an insurance subsidy policy with a time limit of 10,000 yuan. For the new order of any car models of Ideal L9, Ideal L8 and Ideal L7 from August 30, 2023 (inclusive) to September 30, 2023 (inclusive), you can enjoy an insurance subsidy of 10,000 yuan.

It is worth noting that September 1 is also the first day of the launch of the new Tesla Model 3, which is the first time that Tesla Model 3 has been redesigned for more than six years. Early that morning, Tesla China announced that the new Model 3 was launched, with a price of 259,900 yuan and expected to be delivered in the fourth quarter of this year.

Although the price of the new version of Tesla Model 3 has not been lowered as expected by the market, the influence of industry leaders should not be underestimated, and the appearance of the new version of Tesla Model 3 has still received great attention.

The industry generally believes that although the price does not fall, it will still bring sales pressure to competitors. Zhang Xiang, dean of the New Energy Automobile Technology Research Institute of Jiangxi New Energy Technology Vocational College, believes that the Tesla brand is favored by consumers, and it is expected that this change will boost Tesla’s sales.

At the same time, Tesla Model S and Model X have joined the price reduction tide. Increasing the price of Model 3 may be due to profit margin, but the price reduction of Tesla’s high-end models also reflects the sales pressure of Tesla in China market. Tesla lowered the price of its high-end Model S Model S and Model X by 110,000-220,000 yuan.

　　[Evaluation] It has always played an important role in the market segment of sports compact cars. After the new generation of imported 3 landed in China for more than a year, the domestic version of the car was finally officially listed. This generation of Mazda 3, named Xingyi, is obviously a heavyweight role in this year’s compact car market. After domestic production, can the light and agile driving style of the original imported hatchback be passed down? The following test report will tell you the answer.

● Daily driving experience: Power is not a strong point, and the gearbox is excellent.

　　Power is undoubtedly an important indicator to measure a sports car, which naturally seems a bit behind the trend against the background of T-belt models. The 2.0L top model we tested is still equipped with the familiar Mazda MZR, with a maximum output of 110kW(150 HP)/6,500 rpm and a maximum output of 182 N m/4,500 rpm. It adopts the DOHC overhead double camshaft all-aluminum cylinder structure, and is still equipped with Mazda’s unique S-VT (sequential timing system), VIS (variable system) and electronic control section.

　　However, from the perspective of daily driving, the performance of this 2.0L engine is still very satisfactory. The throttle is still the light feeling of Japanese cars. The engine is slightly gentle at low speed, but fortunately, the engine responds quickly enough to the accelerator pedal. At around 3000rpm, the power can cope with ordinary daily road conditions.

　　When the rotation speed exceeds 4000 rpm, the engine is the real power point, and the continuous torque output can be maintained at about 6000rpm. At high speed, the sound waves of the engine are tuned very sweetly. Coupled with the barrel-shaped instrument panel in front of us and the sports steering wheel on the hand, the sports atmosphere brought by the senses has been put in place.

　　Matching it is a 5-speed automatic manual transmission, which increases a gear compared with the previous generation; "Understanding" is the most obvious advantage of this 5AT. You can easily control the upshift and downshift through the depth of the throttle. Although the response of the gearbox will be slightly hesitant at this time, the smoothness of shifting will not make you complain.

　　The shift paddle under the steering wheel allows you to downshift at any time. At this time, the shift is also crisp and neat, without any sloppiness. Sometimes the number of gears can’t measure the quality of a transmission. Compared with some 6AT gearboxes, the performance of this 5AT gearbox is enough to meet the small intense driving demand.

　　It is worth mentioning that, although in the D gear state, you can complete the downshift through the shift paddle, once you slightly loosen the throttle, the gearbox will quickly enter the automatic mode; Only when the gearbox lever is turned to the left to enter the pure manual mode will the gearbox fully obey your instructions.

　　Mazda 3 Star, which is made in Mazda, completely continues the powertrain of the imported hatchback version. The 2.0L model has a 5-speed automatic manual transmission and 6-speed two different combinations. Obviously, the two models are aimed at different groups of people. The 6MT gearbox with tight gear ratio is undoubtedly specially prepared for those who are keen on modification, while the 5AT model is more oriented to those fashionable young elites.

　
The structure is similar to that of the previous generation.

　　As a replacement model, Mazda’s 3-star and suspension structure has not changed much compared with the previous generation model, which was highly praised for its handling. Does this mean that its handling and suspension have not improved? After a few days of testing, I also have the answer in my heart. More interesting suspension and control are the biggest selling points of this generation of Mazda 3.

　　Mazda 3 Star has basically continued the front and rear suspension structure of the previous generation model, only slightly improved the rubber bushing, the front and rear stabilizer bar and the rear suspension center beam, but the overall adjustment style is more radical than that of the previous generation model.

　　The suspension stroke is very short. With the help of the shock absorber, the four tires can always hold the ground, and the vehicle can naturally have a higher limit in the corner. Compared with the imported version, the stiffness of the suspension has converged, but it can still provide sufficient support when cornering, and the comfort has also improved when passing through some deceleration hurdles or large road undulations, so that passengers sitting in the back row will not be too painful to "bump".

　　The steering of SINOVA is my favorite. The compact steering wheel is very handy, and the electric feel and feedback are very comfortable. Every movement you make on the steering wheel will be directly and accurately responded by the car body. What is commendable is that the steering wheel used has not lost the sense of road, and the information on the road can still be directly transmitted to the driver through the steering wheel. In addition, the feeling of braking is also very good, the braking force is very linear, and there are not many empty positions in the front section, which can give people more confidence in corners.

The dispute between Evergrande and FF was written into the US 301 investigation, Baoneng set up a new energy technology company, and the retail operation will complete 2.5 billion yuan of financing. The Weimar power battery project started, Tucki signed contracts with NVIDIA and Desai Siwei, Singularity will develop autonomous driving on the NVIDIA platform, Song Haijian will work for Sailin, ES6 will be launched in December, and the production version of Aichi U5 will be unveiled soon.

The dispute between Evergrande and FF was written into the US 301 investigation.

A few days ago, the Office of the US Trade Representative released the latest update information of the 301 investigation report, and the investment dispute between FF and Evergrande was impressively listed.

The US listed FF as a case of intellectual property theft, and the document described in detail Evergrande Xu Jiayin’s plan to introduce the world’s top technology into China by investing $2 billion to acquire 45% equity and controlling FF.

The report quoted Evergrande’s latest semi-annual report as saying that the semi-annual report listed the situation of FF and its great significance to Evergrande’s diversified operation, and emphasized that FF operating in China and the United States had obtained 380 patents.

According to the report, in view of the competitive relationship between FF and, and the operation of the car involves 380 patented technologies, this will greatly enhance China’s core competitiveness in automobile engines.

The report also specifically mentions the recent dispute between Evergrande and FF. After Evergrande injected the first payment of $800 million into FF, the two sides fell into a struggle. FF believes that Evergrande’s refusal to pay has caused the company’s financial dilemma, and its real purpose is to control FF’s ownership.

As for the contents stated in the report, according to the sources close to Evergrande, Evergrande’s investment in FF is purely commercial, and it was submitted for approval according to the relevant legal procedures in the United States.

Baoneng establishes new energy technology company.

Recently, Shenzhen Hongpeng New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. was incorporated with a registered capital of 3 billion yuan.

According to the public information of Shenzhen Municipal Market Supervision Administration, among the registered capital, Baoneng Group subscribed 2.97 billion yuan, accounting for 99% of the shares, and Shenzhen Baoneng Logistics Co., Ltd., the holding company of Baoneng Group, subscribed 30 million yuan, holding 1% of the shares.

The business scope of Hongpeng New Energy includes: technical research and development of lithium-ion batteries, battery materials, lithium polymer batteries, power batteries and waste power batteries; Technical development, sales and technical services of ultra-large capacity energy storage batteries, super capacitors, battery management systems and rechargeable battery packs, photovoltaic energy storage systems and related equipment and instruments; Investing in new energy industry; Technical service, performance test and technical consultation of lithium battery and related products.

Baoneng has accelerated its layout in the automobile industry since 2017, and there are many business segments in the controlled listed companies that are highly related to automobiles. The establishment of new energy technology company this time is another layout of Baoneng Group in the related fields of new energy vehicles.

Zero Run will complete 2.5 billion yuan financing.

A few days ago, Zero Run Auto reported that it planned to complete the 2.5 billion yuan Series A financing. At present, this round of financing has reached nearly 2 billion yuan. The A round of financing was led by Shanghai Electric Group Co., Ltd., followed by Sequoia Capital and Industrial Securities.

Zhu Jiangming, founder and chairman of Zero Run Auto, said that in the A-1 round of financing that has been completed, except for the old shareholder Sequoia Capital, all the other investors are investing in domestic new car-making forces for the first time.

It is revealed that, next, zero-run cars will be financed in different stages in accordance with the development needs of enterprises, and it is estimated that a total of 10 billion yuan will be needed for financing. "At present, our country’s first direct zero-run center has officially opened. On January 3 next year, the zero-run S01 will also be listed soon."　

At present, S01 has been scheduled for the second phase, with thousands of accumulated orders, and its sales target will be set at 10,000 vehicles in 2019.

Weimar power battery project started

On November 19th, Sichuan Xinminya Battery Technology Co., Ltd. signed an agreement with Mianyang Municipal Government to hold a groundbreaking ceremony for a power battery project with a total investment of 16.6 billion yuan in Santai County, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province. The total production capacity of the project is 15Gwh, which can meet the battery requirements of 300,000 vehicles after production.

The fixed assets investment of Xinminya new energy vehicle power battery project is about 13.05 billion yuan, covering an area of about 700 mu, including test center, battery factory, battery sales center, etc. It is planned to produce 15GWh power battery annually.

It is worth mentioning that the investors behind the project are.

Previously, Weimar Automobile also signed a strategic cooperation agreement with China Tower Co., Ltd., and the two sides will cooperate in battery gradient utilization and battery recycling to promote the sustainable development of green and smart economy.

As the power source of new energy vehicles, the power battery is the core of the core of electric vehicles. Weimar will lay out the power battery business this time, or further master the upstream and downstream industrial chains of new energy to better control costs and ensure the orderly delivery.

Tucki signed contracts with NVIDIA and Desai Siwei.

On November 21st, we signed a tripartite strategic cooperation agreement with NVIDIA and NVIDIA’s China partner Desai Siwei on the first day of the NVIDIA Global GTC Conference in Suzhou to jointly develop L3-level technology suitable for China’s traffic environment and driving scene.

Based on Xavier’s hardware foundation, Xpeng Motors will provide a self-developed Chinese autopilot software system, and cooperate with Desai Siwei to complete the hardware development of the autopilot computing platform.

It is planned to realize L3-class Chinese-style automatic driving function on new models in Xpeng Motors in stages from 2020, and gradually realize fully automatic driving in various road conditions between cities, automatically finding parking spaces and parking in parking lots, cruising in morning and evening rush hours, automatically switching the best lanes of expressways and maintaining continuous automatic driving, and automatic driving based on navigating the best route and customizing the route individually.

Dr. Gu Junli, Vice President of Autopilot in Xpeng Motors, Rishi Dhall, Vice President of Global Automotive Business Development of NVIDIA, and Gao Dapeng, General Manager of Desai Siwei attended the signing ceremony, and announced that the three parties will continue to carry out in-depth cooperation. On the basis of hardware cooperation, they will also have in-depth exchanges in data collection and calibration, software development and cloud training.

Singularity will develop autonomous driving with NVIDIA platform.

On November 21st, at the GTC China 2018 conference in NVIDIA, Singularity announced that it would adopt NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Xavier AI chip to develop L3 and higher-level self-driving cars.

The NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Xavier platform is open and scalable, and at the same time, it has achieved unprecedented performance of processing 30 trillion operations per second to deal with diverse and deep learning algorithms for autonomous driving.

The Singularity Auto Driving Team will be led by Huang Yu, the chief scientist, to develop L3 or higher autopilot technology using the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Xavier platform.

It is expected that L3 autopilot research and development will be officially completed in 2019, and mass production will be officially realized in 2020, and it is planned to upgrade to L4 level through OTA in the later stage.

Song Haijian works for Sai Lin.

Jiangsu Sailin Automobile Technology Co., Ltd. recently announced the appointment of Song Haijian as the director of electronic and electrical engineering, responsible for the development of vehicle electrical system.

Song Haijian graduated from University of Shanghai for Science and Technology and has 15 years of working experience in the field of automotive electronics development. Before joining Sailin, Song Haijian worked as the director of the electronic and electrical department in Fengdu (Changzhou) Automobile R&D Institute, and was responsible for the management of the intelligent electronic and electrical department in Yachuang (Shanghai) Engineering Technology Co., Ltd., responsible for the formulation of various technical schemes and project monitoring, and was also responsible for the management of the electronic and electrical department in Shanghai Shikejia Vehicle R&D Center, with very mature experience in team management and project development.

As the director of electronic and electrical engineering, Song Haijian said: "In the future, I will lead the team to build a more comprehensive and efficient electronic and electrical development system, and actively promote the penetration of vehicle architecture concept and platform concept in products, focusing on functional safety, network security, Ethernet application and other new technologies."

Ma Chunye, vice president of Sailin Automobile and president of the R&D Institute, said: "Song Haijian is familiar with the electronic and electrical architecture of the whole vehicle, the diagnostic development and testing of the network connection, the technical details of the environmental testing process of the whole vehicle function, and the technical characteristics of intelligent driving and network connection. He can deeply integrate traditional electronics and emerging intelligent networking technology, and can effectively apply it to demanding vehicle research and development projects. "

Weilai ES6 was launched in December.

In 2018, NIO Day Weilai Day will be held in Shanghai on December 15th, and its brand-new medium-sized pure electric vehicle, ES6, will be released on that day.

From the appearance, Weilai ES6 can be regarded as the smaller ES8, but its official claim is that the endurance of ES6 is stronger than that of ES8, and its price is 80,000-100,000 yuan lower than that of ES8.

In the third quarter financial report released by Weilai, it was mentioned that the production line transformation of ES6 is currently underway. In addition, according to the information disclosed in Weilai’s prospectus, the ES6 is a 5-seat high-performance electric SUV, which will be delivered in the first half of 2019.

In the second half of the same year, Weilai will equip ES6 with a new electric propulsion system, which will adopt a brand-new dual permanent magnet or PM motor, thus bringing better energy-saving effect.

In addition to the upcoming release of the ES6, Weilai will also launch the benchmark version and six-seat version of the ES8, which has been unveiled at the Guangzhou Auto Show. Compared with the original version of ES8 currently on sale, the benchmark version is newly equipped with NOMI Halo in-vehicle artificial intelligence system, and provides a new car color of starry blue. The six-seat model will be scheduled in January 2019 and delivered in March of the same year.

Aichi U5 production version will be unveiled soon.

Recently, Aichi Automobile announced that its production model of U5 will officially debut on November 29th. The new car is positioned as a medium-sized SUV, which is built on the MAS platform and is expected to be officially launched in the second half of 2019.

The new car will be built based on the MAS platform developed by Aichi Auto, equipped with L2 automatic driving system, and equipped with AQIS air purification, ASMR directional private music, disinfection atmosphere lights, AI-Power battery life, automatic wireless charging and so on.

In addition, the new car is equipped with independent swing doors and welcome seats, and there are also hidden air outlets and defrosters, hot and cold cup holders and refrigerators in the car.

In terms of power, the final production model of U5 will provide a variety of battery packs to choose from. Two battery packs with 53kWh and 63kWh capacity can achieve NEDC battery life of about 325km/400km respectively.

In addition, it also includes a variety of added solutions, and users can freely choose from three gradients of 60kWh-80kWh to meet the needs of different commuting mileage.

Deep Blue S07 is the first in the whole department to take Huawei Gankun Intelligent Technology, and it is a new mainstream SUV with 200,000 new energy vehicles. The intelligent parking assistant APA, remote parking assistant RPA and parking service auxiliary AVP, which are launched at the same level, can realize real "parking at sight", and the sentry mode can realize parking monitoring, safety warning and remote monitoring, so that the car can always give an early warning when facing danger. Deep blue S07 is the first in its class to take 3C super fast charge, with SOC of 30% ~ 80% charging time ≤15mins, charging for 10 minutes and battery life of 100 kilometers, which opens up a new blue ocean in the market segment of new energy vehicles. # 200,000, the first Huawei intelligent driver # # Left hand deep blue super extended range right hand Huawei Gankun intelligent # # Deep blue S07# # Advanced intelligent affirmative experience #

On December 16th, Gaspar learned that Chery Automobile’s new iCAR V23 car was officially launched.

ICAR V23 is a "square box" SUV with two configurations. The price of 401 two-wheel drive advanced version and 501 four-wheel drive advanced version is 109,800 yuan and 139,800 yuan respectively.

In addition, iCAR V23 also launched a "gift for young people from Mr. Yin (Chairman of Chery Automobile Yin Tongyue)"-301 two-wheel drive youth version, with a price of 99,800 yuan.

It is reported that the iCAR V23 is 4220mm long, 1915mm wide, 1845mm high, with a wheelbase of 2735mm, a approach angle of 41, a departure angle of 35 and a minimum ground clearance of 210mm (four-wheel drive version), and offers various color schemes such as Mediterranean blue, Hermes orange, dark night, gray, green, silver and white.

In terms of intelligent driving configuration, iCAR V23 can choose a variety of grille styles, and has reserved several modification spaces. It has built-in Qualcomm Snapdragon 8155 chip, supports in-vehicle 5G, has L2++ intelligent driving solution, and supports the expansion of wireless CarPlay, mobile phone USB screen projection, mainstream game machines and other devices.

In addition, the intelligent assisted driving of the car adopts the horizon J3+TDA4 scheme, including 8 megapixel forward-looking camera, 3 megapixel panoramic camera, 5 millimeter-wave radars and 12 ultrasonic radars, and supports high-speed NOA navigation, emergency lane keeping, traffic congestion assistance, automatic parking, remote parking, memory parking and other functions.

Source: iCAR car

In terms of power configuration, iCAR V23 provides two power systems, one is a single motor with a maximum power of 100kW, which uses lithium iron phosphate batteries; The other is a dual motor with a maximum power of 100kW+55kW, which uses ternary lithium batteries.

At the meeting, Yin Tongyue, Chairman of Chery, said that Saudi partners had told him that there were three types of cars sold in the Middle East market:

One kind is a tool car, and the China car is currently a tool car; One is to sell assets that can preserve value, such as brands like Toyota; One is luxury cars that can improve social status, such as Mercedes-Benz and BMW.

However, Chery will never be willing to sell only cars and vehicles. Chery will also turn cars into assets, and at the same time, it will also become a symbol of users’ social status and hope to become a collection in users’ homes.