Recently, it was revealed that Toyota Motor Corporation and FAW Group are planning to build a new automobile factory in Tianjin. Toyota plans to invest 8.495 billion yuan to build a new energy factory in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, which will further expand Toyota's new energy vehicle production capacity in China.
According to the design tender announcement issued by Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city Management Committee, Toyota Motor and FAW Group plan to invest 8.495 billion yuan to build a new energy factory in Tianjin Binhai New Area Eco-city, which has been approved by Tianjin Eco-city Management Committee. The total area is 6.5438+0.97 million square meters, the first phase covers an area of 970,000 square meters, and the construction area is 342,000 square meters. The new energy plant has an annual production capacity of 200,000 vehicles, including pure electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles and fuel cell vehicles. The bidding time for this design is from February 26th, 2020 to May 25th, 2020. According to Tianjin's plan, FAW Toyota's new energy plant project will make significant progress before the end of 2020.
Volkswagen Group wants to hold 0/00% shares of Audi/KLOC.
As a high-end car brand, Audi has always been a big contributor to the profits of Volkswagen Group. Volkswagen Group said that it is planning to increase its shareholding in Audi from the current 99.64% to 65,438+000% through squeeze mergers and acquisitions in accordance with the German Joint Stock Company Law. To this end, Volkswagen Group submitted a request to transfer minority equity to Audi brand on February 29th. According to this requirement and the corresponding contents of the German joint-stock company law, this equity transfer will be completed by voting during the annual general meeting of Audi brand. In view of this, the annual shareholders' meeting of Audi brand will be postponed from May 14 to July or August this year.
In addition, in order to further strengthen the strategic position of Audi brand, the new CEO of Audi, Marcus duesman, will take over the related research and development work of Volkswagen Group, and Audi will become "Car". Software ",a brand-new automotive software development department of Volkswagen Group.
Geely plans to build a "star"
Recently, the centralized commencement ceremony of major projects to expand effective investment in Zhejiang Province was held in the form of video teleconference. Among them, Taizhou Sub-venue is located at the commencement site of Geely Satellite Project, marking the official launch of Geely Satellite Project. At the same time, Geely Holding Group has become the second enterprise in the world and the first enterprise in China to build a car and make a star.
Not long ago, Li Shufu expressed his judgment on the future with the theme of "Great Times, Great Challenges and Great Opportunities" at the Hangzhou War Epidemic Promotion Conference: "This year, novel coronavirus has brought challenges to the normal operation of China's economy and society, but we must turn disadvantages into advantages and turn decay into magic." Around the transformation of travel, Li Shufu focused on the field of low-altitude flight at a time when the ground transportation mode is difficult to revolutionize. This is not a whim. In fact, Geely has long had a layout in this respect. For example, 20 17 Geely Holding Group acquired Terrafugia, a flying car company; In 20 18, Geely invested in the Mingtai Formula Time Airport Project in Jianzhou New Town, Chengdu, and plans to launch a flying car experience at the corresponding track in the future. In September last year, Geely Holding Group led the investment in Volocopter, a German city air travel company.
With the development of three-dimensional travel, satellite is an indispensable part of efficient guidance of ground traffic and safety guidance of low-altitude aircraft. The official launch of Geely Satellite Project has filled the core link of Geely's "integration of heaven and earth" three-dimensional travel strategic layout, and also made the core of this strategy gradually surface: from ground travel to low-altitude travel, from the research and development of vehicle networking system and on-board chip to the layout of low-orbit satellites, the combination of software and hardware has been truly realized, and technology has enabled future travel and promoted the reform and development of transportation.
Nezha Auto and Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. deepen cooperation.
Last week, Nezha Auto, a brand of United Auto, announced that the company had held a signing ceremony for strategic cooperation with Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. on March 2, and the two sides would further deepen cooperation in the field of new energy batteries. Through this cooperation, Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. will provide power battery solutions for Zhongzhong Company, and its battery technologies, such as CTP highly integrated battery pack technology and five-year long cycle life of 500,000 kilometers, will be applied to five models developed by another automobile based on two platforms. Based on this, Nezha Auto will also provide users with a five-year warranty policy of 500,000 kilometers.
Fang Yunzhou, founder and chairman of He Zhong Company, said that the two sides will continue to give full play to their respective advantages in technology research and development and commercial operation, further deepen cooperation in life cycle management of new energy vehicles, and try their best to fully tap and rationally utilize the value of power batteries.
Weilai received another $235 million in convertible bond financing.
On the evening of the 5th of this month, Weilai announced the completion of another $235 million convertible bond financing project on its investor relations website. It is understood that the investors are several Asian investment funds, and all of them are "unrelated parties", that is, pure financial investors. This is the third time that Weilai has issued a convertible bond financing announcement after entering 2020. At the same time, up to now, Weilai has completed a total of $435 million in convertible bond financing in 2020.
Since 2020, Weilai has made continuous positive progress in financing, not only completing convertible bond financing in the US dollar market, but also signing a cooperation framework agreement with Hefei with a price exceeding10 billion yuan. At the beginning of the new year, especially under the influence of the epidemic, it is also a "good start" to achieve the above achievements. Especially after 20 19 twists and turns, Haocai's fortune has changed, which is Weilai's deepest New Year's wish.
FCA invested $400 million to open an idle factory in Indiana.
FCA is going to invest 400 million US dollars (about 2.77 billion RMB) to build a second transmission factory in Cocomo, Indiana, and will produce GMET4 engines (2.0-liter four-cylinder turbocharged engines equipped with Jeep herdsman and Freelight) for the American market in the future. Mark stewart, chief operating officer of FCA North America, said that the production transfer was an important part of the five-year plan announced by FCA in 20 18.
Mark stewart (first from right), Chief Operating Officer of FCA North America Company, and Eric Holcomb (Governor of Indiana? Next to Holcomb) is the 2.0-liter engine carried by Jeep herdsman, which has been produced in the new Cocomo engine factory since the second quarter of 202/KLOC-0.
"This engine can apply many new technologies and is closely related to FCA's new car in the future." ? Stewart said in a statement: "By 2022, FCA plans to launch 30 new electric vehicles in the global market, and this engine will play an important role in this plan."
International oil prices continue to fall.
The crude oil price war initiated by Saudi Arabia caused the international oil price to plummet. At noon on March 9, Beijing time, the daily decline of American oilcloth futures prices continued to expand after once narrowing, both falling by 30%. Among them, the price of light crude oil futures (WTI) delivered in April in the New York Mercantile Exchange jumped up and down at the integer psychological barrier of $30/barrel. By midday, WTI crude oil prices had fallen by 32.32%? , reported $27.94/barrel, hitting the lowest value since April 2003. London Brent crude oil futures for May delivery (Brent? Crude oil) fell 13.46 USD to 3 1.8 1 USD/barrel, a decrease of 29.73%.
The storm of "reducing distribution door" continues.
On March 7th, Tesla said in official website that all vehicles are equipped with? Vehicles that have purchased version 2.0 or 2.5 of the "Automatic Driving Assistant Computer" hardware and the "Fully Automated Driving Ability" software can upgrade their hardware to version 3.0 of the "Fully Automated Driving Computer" for free.
Tesla said that according to the location and hardware configuration of the vehicle, the company will inform the owner to go to the service center to upgrade the "fully automatic driving computer" in batches, and gradually open the self-service online reservation function. Official website shows that North America has opened reservations, and Europe and Asia Pacific will open reservations in early March and early April, which means that American car owners can switch to version 3.0 early next month.
In fact, Tesla's "fully autonomous computer" is equipped with hardware chips, while the 3.0 version of the chip is independently developed by Tesla, and its performance is greatly improved compared with the 2.5 version. For example, can 3.0 be processed every second? 2300? Frame images, while 2.5 can only process 1 10 frames per second. Previously, Tesla said that Hardware3.0 will become the standard for all Tesla models produced in the second half of 20 19.
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