Evergrande goes to court, Baoneng Weimar makes batteries, and zero-run financing ｜ Weekly report on new forces of building cars.
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.
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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.