91 Ten Articles: Xiaomi's Li Xiaoshuang's transfer to the automotive industry is untrue, Wuling Electric's legendary car officially bids farewell to Shanghai

1. Wu Hui, general manager of the research department of the Ivy Economic Research Institute, issued a warning: In recent years, the growth in the number of electric vehicles has significantly increased the demand for power batteries, but as far as the entire industry is concerned, there is overcapacity, and some companies have some ineffective production capacity that needs to be eliminated.

Wu Hui pointed out, "If small factories want to survive and get further financing, they must expand their scale to reduce costs, because power batteries are a capital-intensive industry with obvious economies of scale. If they have enough funds to expand production, small factories will have room to survive. Otherwise, they can only transform into batteries for non-automotive fields and other fields with lower barriers, or they will be eliminated."

2. Today, there was news that Li Xiaoshuang, the former general manager of Xiaomi's home appliances business, would be transferred to be in charge of the automotive business. However, in a communication this afternoon, Li Xiaoshuang told 91che that the news was untrue.

3. Changan Automobile held a ceremony to roll off the assembly line of its 20 millionth car. Currently, Changan Automobile has established a global collaborative R&D structure with "six countries and nine locations" with different focuses in Chongqing, Beijing, Dingzhou, Hebei, Hefei, Anhui, Turin, Italy, Yokohama, Japan, Birmingham, UK, Detroit, USA and Munich, Germany.

4. Mini electric cars under 100,000 yuan and less than 4.6 meters bid farewell to Shanghai. Today, the Shanghai Economic and Information Commission confirmed that Hongguang MINIEV, Nezha V, all models of Ora, and Chery QQ are temporarily not allowed to be licensed.

5. Faraday Future, backed by Jia Yueting, said today that its first pre-production electric car, FF91, will meet consumers in New York and provide test drive opportunities. However, the specific time of the meeting has not been announced. Earlier, there were reports that FF91 is scheduled to be launched in 2022.

6. Internet car manufacturing has entered a talent war. Senior headhunters in the automotive industry said that new car manufacturers hope to attract outstanding talents with high salaries. The average monthly salary they offer is 15,367 yuan, up 21.6% from the same period last year. Some positions related to autonomous driving algorithms even have an annual salary of more than one million yuan.

Didi is currently the most generous, offering an annual salary of 2 million to vice presidents of traditional car companies, while in traditional car companies, the salaries of these people are mostly 600,000 to 800,000.

7. Tesla announced that there are 25,000 super charging stations worldwide. In 2012, Tesla equipped the first batch of super charging stations for Model S in the United States. It is expected that by the end of this year, the number of Tesla's super charging stations worldwide will reach 30,000.

8. Recently, the 2020 double-point report card was released. Under the pressure of the assessment, in 2020, FAW-Volkswagen purchased a large number of new energy points from Tesla, with a price of up to 3,000 yuan per point, which is a double increase from 300-500 yuan/point in 2018 and 800-1200 yuan/point in 2019.

9. Maruti Suzuki India, India's largest automaker, said it plans to extend the shutdown period for maintenance from May 9 to May 16 due to the coronavirus outbreak. Previously, Honda Motor had suspended its automobile manufacturing operations in India, and the factory will remain closed until May 18.

10. According to Autolist's "2021 Electric Vehicle Survey", range has surpassed price to become the most important consideration for consumers when buying electric vehicles. 61% of the 1,800 respondents chose range, followed by price, charging time and other factors.

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