91 Ten Articles - New Energy Vehicle Industry Briefing: Former Land Rover Vice President Joins FF as CEO

1. According to the State Administration for Market Regulation, in 2020, new energy vehicles were recalled 45 times, involving 357,000 vehicles. Among them, problems with the "three electrics" of power batteries, motors, and electronic control systems accounted for 49.4% of the clues of new energy vehicle defects.

2. Volkswagen released its future plans at the first Power Day. It said that by 2030, it will build six new battery factories in Europe through self-construction and joint ventures, with a total production capacity of 240GWh; the battery cost of mass-produced models will drop by 30%; and free charging will eventually be achieved.

3. Tesla has given its boss and CEO Musk a new crown - calling him the "Technoking of Tesla."

4. Samsung announced a partnership with Waymo, Google's self-driving car company, to develop the next generation of self-driving car chips for the latter. It is reported that the chip can exchange information with Google's data center in real time, analyze and calculate the sensor data on the self-driving car, and thus achieve the function of controlling the vehicle.

5. CATL is accelerating its deployment in the energy storage field and announced today that it has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the State Power Investment Corporation. Previously, CATL had signed a 1.85GWh energy storage battery contract with Powin Energy of the United States.

6. Cruise, an autonomous driving technology company controlled by General Motors, announced the acquisition of autonomous driving car startup Voyage. Voyage's total financing was US$52 million, while Cruise's total financing reached more than US$8 billion.

7. Jia Yueting's Faraday Future (FF) company officially announced that it has completed the second quarter winter testing and verification of the FF 91 pre-production car. This move is an important preparation for the company to strive to complete the listing and sales in the first half of 2022.

8. In response to investors' questions today, map supplier NavInfo said that the market promotion of the AC8015 smart cockpit chip is progressing smoothly, and it is initially expected to guarantee the production and supply needs of various partners, while the new generation AC8025 smart cockpit chip is being designed and developed as planned.

9. Based on indicators such as road test performance, safety, predicted reliability and consumer satisfaction, the US Consumer Reports publishes an annual comprehensive ranking of automobile brands. In the past five years, Land Rover from India's Tata Motors has always ranked low or even at the bottom.

10. Chen Xuefeng, former vice president of Chery Jaguar Land Rover who resigned from the company earlier this year, is about to join FF as CEO.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.