Peman Calga has been the global president of Britain and finidi since June.
15 In May, Nissan Motor Company announced that Mr. Peyman Kargar would be the senior vice president of Nissan and the global president of Britain and finidi, reporting to Mr. Christian Vandenhende, the chief quality officer of Nissan Motor Company, and this appointment would take effect on June 1 2020.
Waymo received another $750 million in financing, with a total financing of $3 billion in two months.
Although the overall economy and capital market are under downward pressure due to the COVID-19 epidemic, the pace of financing in the field of autonomous driving has not stopped, especially Waymo, an American autonomous driving research and development company.
According to foreign media reports, on May 13, Waymo announced that since the company received the first round of financing of 2.25 billion US dollars on March 2, 2020, the company has received additional investment of 750 million US dollars from new investors. So far, Waymo's accumulated financing amount has increased to $3 billion in two months.
It is reported that the new financing comes from T. Rowe Price, Perry Creek Capital, Fidelity Management, Research Company and other institutions. Waymo officials said that these new financing will be used as before, such as product development, staff costs, Waymo One taxi service and the operation of Waymo Via freight service.
New energy vehicle subsidy 1 10,000 yuan Wuhan released the latest car purchase policy.
Recently, according to relevant news reports, Wuhan will issue detailed rules for promoting automobile consumption on May 14. From the date of publication to February 3 1 day, the Wuhan municipal government will give a certain proportion of subsidies to those who buy passenger cars produced by enterprises in Wuhan and sell and register them in Wuhan.
It is reported that the purchase of fuel passenger cars is subsidized by 3% of the sales price, with an upper limit of 5,000 yuan; The subsidy for new energy passenger cars is 6,543,800 yuan per car. When selling passenger cars in Wuhan, automobile production enterprises shall publicize the available amount of subsidy funds for car purchase to consumers, and make advance payment to consumers within 7 days after the vehicle sales are licensed, and then uniformly report the subsidy funds for vehicles to the municipal and district economic and information departments.
Tesla disguised price reduction
Tesla said that in view of the market discussion on the price changes of domestic long-lived rear-drive Model 3 after the transition period of state subsidies on July 22, according to what we learned from Tesla, after the transition period of subsidies on July 22, the price of domestic long-lived rear-drive Model 3 paid by consumers will remain at 344,050 yuan.
At present, the subsidy price of the car is 344,050 yuan, which is the difference between Tesla's subsidies for new energy. Previously, on May 1 day, Tesla China announced that it would lower the price of the domestic standard endurance Model 3, which was 29 1.80 yuan before the subsidy and 27 1.550 yuan after the subsidy.
Cruise, an autonomous driving company, announced an 8% layoff.
Cruise, an autonomous driving subsidiary of General Motors, announced today that it will lay off 160 people, with a layoff ratio of about 8%. Dan ammann, CEO of Cruise, said in an internal email that it was a very difficult decision, but these changes were the right choice. Cruise's layoffs are mainly aimed at non-R&D employees, but the lidar engineering department in Pasadena, Los Angeles is on the layoff list.
In 20 16, GM acquired the controlling stake of Cruise for 10 billion, but Cruise remained in San Francisco to maintain its independent operation. Amman, former president of General Motors, took over as CEO of Cruise last year. The cruise ship was established on 20 13. Last May, it raised1150 million US dollars, and the financing valuation was about190 billion US dollars. The company's investors also include Japan's Softbank Vision Fund and Honda Motor.
Release of new mandatory national standard for electric vehicles
12 on may 20th, the Ministry of industry and information technology organized and formulated three mandatory national standards (GB 18384-2020 safety requirements for electric vehicles, GB 38032-2020 safety requirements for electric buses and GB 3803 1-2020 safety requirements for power batteries of electric vehicles).
Among them, the key part of the safety requirements of power batteries for electric vehicles: while optimizing the safety requirements of battery cells and modules, the thermal safety, mechanical safety, electrical safety and functional safety requirements of battery systems are emphatically strengthened. The test items include thermal diffusion, external fire, mechanical impact, simulated collision, damp-heat cycle, vibration soaking, external short circuit, over-temperature overcharge and so on. The standard specially adds the thermal diffusion test of the battery system, which requires that the battery system will not catch fire or explode within 5 minutes after the thermal runaway of the battery monomer, so as to reserve a safe escape time for the occupants.
Uber plans to acquire Grubhub, the largest takeaway platform in the United States.
On the evening of May 12, Beijing time, today Bloomberg quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that Uber has issued an offer to GrubHub, an American catering service platform.
Headquartered in Chicago, GrubHub is the largest takeaway platform in the United States and is known as the "American version of the US Mission". According to informed sources, Uber is currently negotiating with GrubHub and it is expected that a deal will be reached as soon as this month. At present, GrubHub's valuation is about 4.5 billion US dollars, while Uber's market value is about 55 billion US dollars. In fact, it was reported at the beginning of this year that Grubhub was considering selling the company.
The driverless company Waymo raised another $750 million.
In the early morning of May 13, Beijing time, Waymo, a driverless car subsidiary of Google's parent company Alphabet, announced on Tuesday that it would refinance 750 million US dollars, bringing its total external financing in the past two months to 3 billion US dollars, which means that Waymo's "war fund" has become more abundant when the competitive situation in the field of driverless cars is facing uncertainty due to the COVID-19 epidemic.
BYD N95 mask orders will not be cancelled.
Regarding BYD's return of part of the deposit for California N95 masks, informed sources revealed that the delay in NIOSH certification of BYD N95 masks led to the delay in product delivery in May, rather than the cancellation of orders.
Only the distribution of N95 masks was affected, and the distribution of disposable medical masks was not affected. At the same time, California has also increased new orders for disposable medical masks.
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