91 Ten Articles: Huawei said that software will be deeply involved in the entire life cycle of the car, and Meizu may start making cars

1. Meizu recently announced on Weibo that it will cooperate with XX Auto. Previously, Meizu's operating system Flyme had said that "Flyme for car is on the way". Lenovo's recent cooperation with Huawei and Arcfox is an attempt to connect Huawei's Hongmeng OS with cars. Meizu's cooperation with car manufacturers this time should also be carried out at the system level. However, with Meizu's current sales and market share, which car brand would be willing to go with it?

4. General Motors released its first quarter 2021 financial report, with strong financial performance. Net income reached $32.5 billion; net profit reached $3 billion, a 949% increase from $286 million in the same period last year. Investment income in the Chinese market reached $300 million; GM's financial business pre-tax profit reached $1.2 billion. On May 5, GM's stock price rose 4% to $57.58 per share.

5. Nissan Motor said it is selling 1.5% of Daimler's shares to institutional investors at the end of June through an accelerated transaction, priced at 69.85 euros per share. The company is expected to earn approximately US$1.38 billion, which will be invested in areas such as electric vehicles.

6. Mr. Cui Aiguo, Chief Software Architect of the Intelligent Automotive Solutions BU of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and Director of the 2012 Laboratory-Gödel Laboratory, said today that software will be deeply involved in the entire life cycle of automobiles from definition, development, verification, sales, and service, to achieve continuous iteration of software, continuous improvement of experience, and continuous creation of value.

7. NavInfo released its first quarter performance announcement for 2021. The announcement showed that the company's revenue in the first quarter was about 519 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 31.57%, and its net loss was 45.189 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 37.75%. The reason was that the demand in the chip market was suppressed, which had an adverse impact on the company's performance.

8. Researchers at Cornell University said they have pioneered a new method that allows electric vehicles, automatic forklifts and other mobile machines to be wirelessly charged while in motion. In this method, there are two grounded insulated metal plates connected to the power line through a matching network and a high-frequency inverter to generate an oscillating electric field. The magnetic field attracts and repels charges on a pair of matching metal plates mounted on the bottom of the vehicle, and the system drives high-frequency current through a rectifiable vehicle circuit. The rectified current can then charge the battery.

9. BAIC New Energy announced that it has appointed Dai Kangwei, former vice president of BAIC New Energy Engineering Institute, as general manager of BAIC New Energy. This is another major personnel appointment of BAIC New Energy after Liu Yu was appointed as the party secretary and chairman of BAIC New Energy and BAIC Blue Valley.

10. According to SNE Research's 2020 global power battery usage data, CATL's market share reached 25%, ranking first in the industry for three consecutive years. It is also worth mentioning that CATL's stock price soared 230% last year, and its latest market value reached 904.2 billion yuan.

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