91 Ten Articles: Ping An suspends new Tesla insurance, and Ideal Auto is going to compete head-on with Huawei

1. After a series of car crashes, some provinces and cities' Ping An auto insurance companies have begun to refuse new Tesla owners from purchasing insurance, and renewal policies have also begun to be gradually tightened. Facing car owners who are seeking rights protection, Tesla's previous tough attitude of "never compromise" has begun to reverse, saying that it will do its best to meet the demands of car owners.

2. Li Xiang, CEO of Ideal Auto, said today that the computing platform and LiDAR with 508 Tops computing power to be launched next year will have the strength to compete head-on with Huawei and Tesla. He also announced a major measure: all models of the company will have fully standard assisted driving and autonomous driving in the future, including software, data services, map services, computing hardware, sensors, etc., and there will be no software activation fees or subscription fees, and all cars will be standard regardless of price.

3. Huang Libin, spokesperson of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: In 2020, the market penetration rate of L2 intelligent connected passenger cars in my country reached 15%. Intelligent connected cars are an important unit of future intelligent transportation and smart cities, and are also a strategic battleground for the development of the global automotive industry. They are currently in a critical stage of rapid technological evolution and accelerated industrial layout.

4. Yang Hongxin, chairman of Honeycomb Energy, a battery manufacturer under Great Wall Motors, said that the company is in talks with potential investors to raise 3-5 billion yuan and plans to be listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board next year. The company's new product can be charged in 10 minutes and travel 400 kilometers.

5. Meituan, the food delivery giant with a market value of $220 billion, raised $10 billion by issuing stocks and convertible bonds, and plans to use the funds to invest in self-driving delivery vehicles, delivery drones and other cutting-edge technologies. In a word, Meituan has begun to enter the autonomous driving industry.

6. Boston Consulting Group (BCG) predicts that by 2023, plug-in, full hybrid and mild hybrid vehicles will account for 25% of the global light vehicle market. By 2026, electric vehicles will account for more than half of global light vehicle sales.

7. The U.S. state of Washington passed the Clean Cars 2030 bill this week. If the governor signs the bill, it means that the state will ban the sale of gasoline vehicles in 2030, becoming the first state in the United States to stop selling gasoline vehicles.

8. The taxi company Didi released the Gemini autonomous driving hardware platform, which has greatly improved the number and types of sensors, as well as performance and computing power. The number of sensors in the whole vehicle has increased to 50, the farthest detection distance is over 300 meters, the minimum detectable distance is 10cm, the total number of automotive-grade camera pixels exceeds 100 million, the computing power exceeds 700TOPS, and more than 10 million point cloud images are generated per second.

9. Wedbush analyst Dan Ives recently said that Apple is likely to disclose details or information about Apple Car in the coming months to lay the foundation for its car products. Because "if it is delayed until 2022, it will be too late for Apple to enter the game."

10. A partner of drone company DJI revealed that mass-produced models equipped with DJI's intelligent driving solutions will be launched within the year.

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