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The Ministry of Finance: Will introduce specific measures to adjust policies related to new energy vehicle purchase subsidies

April On the 9th, the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council held a press conference to introduce the work on stabilizing the impact of the epidemic and expanding automobile consumption. The recent executive meeting of the State Council clearly extended the purchase subsidy and purchase tax exemption policy for new energy vehicles to two years. Sun Guangqi, director of the Economic Construction Department of the Ministry of Finance, said that the Ministry of Finance will work with relevant departments to promptly introduce new energy vehicle purchase subsidies in accordance with procedures. Some specific measures for policy adjustments have stabilized market expectations and created good conditions for unleashing automobile consumer demand.

GM won a US$490 million contract from the US government to produce 30,000 ventilators by the end of August

According to foreign media reports, General Motors confirmed on Wednesday morning that the company had received a nearly US$490 million contract from the US government. $490 million contract to produce ventilators during coronavirus outbreak. The contract is the first for ventilator production under the Defense Production Act. The Defense Production Act is a statute passed by the United States in the 1950s that allows the president to commandeer corporate factories to produce defense products. U.S. President Trump previously used this bill to require many American companies to produce necessary equipment to fight the epidemic. The production of anti-epidemic equipment has become the "most important" thing for General Motors in the near future. The American automaker started producing masks on March 20, and the first mask rolled off the production line within a week. As of April 1, more than 30 GM engineers, designers, purchasing personnel and production team members have been engaged in the production of anti-epidemic equipment. General Motors said it is working with ventilator manufacturer Ventec Life Systems to produce more than 6,100 ventilators by June and a total of 30,000 ventilators by the end of August. The company could begin production at its Kokomo, Indiana, plant as early as next week.

Toyota, Honda and Nissan will cut the wages of 32,000 North American workers

According to Bloomberg, Japan’s three major automakers Toyota, Honda and Nissan are expected to cut the wages of 32,000 North American workers, allowing these Employees have joined the ranks seeking government unemployment benefits. Citing the worsening epidemic and falling demand for cars, Toyota extended the shutdown of all its auto and parts plants in Canada, Mexico and the United States for the third time. Toyota said it would extend the current shutdown for another two weeks and plans to reopen its North American assembly plants on May 4. Toyota will continue to pay full-time production workers, though the company is asking them to take two days of paid leave or give up two days of pay during the longer shutdown. Toyota's announcement to cut North American employee costs comes a day after Honda Motor Co and Nissan Motor Co said they would also temporarily stop paying all workers at idled U.S. plants and require them to apply for state unemployment benefits. Honda's decision will affect 16,900 employees, while Nissan said it will temporarily lay off about 10,000 employees.

Shanxi releases automobile consumption incentive policy

Recently, Shanxi Province issued the "Notice on Implementing Special Incentives for Automobile Consumption". The reward standard is "Commercial vehicles such as passenger cars over 7 meters, medium and heavy trucks with a load of more than 4.5 tons and tractors of the same level will be rewarded 8,000 yuan each; passenger vehicles such as cars, SUVs and MPVs will be rewarded 6,000 yuan each; 3.5 Minibuses and other commercial vehicles under meters will be awarded 4,000 yuan each.

FF announced its transformation into an electric vehicle engineering design platform service provider.

Faraday Future announced on Twitter today that it will transform. Become an automotive engineering solutions provider. According to its official website, the solutions will include intelligent driving platforms, automotive design solutions (interior/appearance, etc.), third-party Internet living space (artificial intelligence and ecosystem/cloud/UI design), Engineering services (energy storage/drive/battery motor management), delivery management and solutions other than automobiles (sea, land and air/services smart home application services)

China UCAR currently holds the remaining equity of China Car Rental. Continuing discussions with multiple parties

China Car Rental announced that on April 8, 2020, the company’s board of directors learned of the equity disclosure archive made by the company’s major shareholder, China UCAR Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of China UCAR UCAR Technology Co., Ltd. holds 44.666 million shares of the company (accounting for approximately 2.11% of the company’s total issued share capital), which were placed on the market on April 3, 2020 at the request of certain UCAR lenders in accordance with the terms of the relevant financing agreement. For sale.

Ford expands unpaid leave in the UK

According to foreign media reports, Ford has increased the number of unpaid leave workers in the UK, starting from 1,500 to 2,000 non-production employees. The company had already placed 3,500 engine production workers on unpaid leave for two weeks until April 20. During the epidemic, the company's car production, sales and development were basically at a standstill. "It's important that we use every means available to ensure we emerge from this crisis in a state that is fit for the future," Ford said in a statement.

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Li Xiang, Li Xiang: We only need about US$1 billion to achieve profitability

On April 8, Li Xiang, founder, chairman and CEO of Li Auto said that Li Xiang The US$500 million raised in the last round has not been used yet. "Poor children have ways to survive." He believes that it does not require tens of billions to build a car. In addition, Li Xiang said, Tesla is the company closest to Apple in the automotive industry, and its market value will reach 100 billion US dollars in 2020.

Volkswagen will launch flexible energy storage fast charging piles in China, and mass production is expected in the second half of this year<. /p>

Official news from Volkswagen Group: Volkswagen Group Parts Company and Shanghai Dupu New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. have signed a cooperation agreement and plan to produce flexible energy storage fast charging piles in China. According to the agreement signed between the two parties, Mass production of flexible energy storage fast charging piles will start in the second half of this year.

Tesla’s official video shows: Hundreds of robots are working in the Shanghai Super Factory. News on April 9, according to foreign news. According to media reports, an official video released by Tesla in China shows the company's current production capacity. From this video, it can be seen that there appear to be hundreds of robots working on the production line of the company's Shanghai factory. Before the completion and body integration and final assembly process, almost no employees were seen. Previously, Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory was temporarily closed for a period of time due to the impact of the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic. Later, on February 10 this year, The factory has resumed production. So far, no cases have been publicly reported at Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory.

Xpeng Motors established an industrial holding company: Injecting 500 million yuan? Xia Heng is the legal person

< p> News on the morning of April 9, Tianyancha data showed that on April 3, Guangdong Xpeng Automobile Industry Holdings Co., Ltd. was established. The company has a registered capital of 500 million yuan, and its legal representative is Xia Heng, co-founder and president of Xpeng Automobile. , the company's business scope includes new energy vehicle-related technology research and technology development services; intelligent networked vehicle-related technology research and technology development services; intelligent networked vehicle-related technical services; providing battery charging services for electric vehicles, etc., owned by Guangdong Xiaopeng Automobile Technology Co., Ltd. The company is wholly owned by the company, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of XPeng (Hong Kong) Limited. Tianyancha data shows that Xpeng Motors has recently invested in a number of companies, including investing 100 million yuan to establish Zhaoqing Xpeng New. Energy Investment Co., Ltd., together with Byton Motors and other companies, established the Qingyan Huake New Energy Research Institute

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