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Tesla signed a loan contract of 4 billion yuan, which will be used for the Shanghai factory.
According to foreign media reports, a regulatory document exposed on Friday showed that Tesla, an electric car manufacturer, reached an agreement with a lending institution in China to provide a working capital loan of up to 4 billion yuan (about 565,565,438+billion US dollars) for its car factory in Shanghai. Since last year, Tesla's accumulated loans from Chinese banks have reached nearly 20 billion yuan. According to the document, the loan will be provided by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Co., Ltd. and will only be used for the production-related expenses of Tesla's Shanghai factory. This Shanghai-based Tesla automobile factory is the company's first automobile production base outside the United States, and it is also the core of Tesla's global strategy to increase automobile sales. Tesla has suspended the production and operation of its factory in the San Francisco Bay Area due to the novel coronavirus epidemic, and the local health department informed Tesla on Friday that the factory was still "unable to start work" because the isolation measures would continue.
Honda plans to gradually resume production in factories in Canada and the United States on May 1 1.
On May 1 1, Honda will restart its automobile and parts factories in the United States and Canada, which were closed in mid-March, and join other automakers in resuming production in North America this month. Honda said on Friday that it will gradually increase production and stagger the restart date to allow workers to adapt to new safety measures including temperature detection and social isolation measures. Honda closed its factory on March 23rd because the outbreak of novel coronavirus forced almost all automobile manufacturing activities in North America to stop. Honda said that all salaried employees will return to work on May 8 or 1 1 day, depending on the place of work. These employees were placed on temporary leave in mid-April, but the company continued to provide medical and other benefits.
Industrial and commercial changes occurred in Shanghai BYD Co., Ltd.: Wang Chuanfu withdrew from the legal representative and chairman.
According to Tianyancha data, on May 8, Shanghai BYD Co., Ltd. changed its business. Wang Chuanfu ceased to be the legal representative and chairman, and was replaced by He Long. Lv Xiangyang and Xia Zuoquan resigned as directors, Zhou Yalin and Zhao Jianping were added as directors, and Xie Qiong was added as supervisor. In addition, the company's business scope has also changed, increasing the comprehensive services, applications and sales of information and cloud computing.
Ford Motor Company released its autopilot test data in the United States for the first time.
On May 8 th, recently, Ford Motor Company published its autopilot test data in the United States for the first time, aiming to help autopilot technicians develop reliable and efficient autonomous vehicle algorithms. The test data released by Ford this time covers the data collected from several self-driving test vehicles within one year, including data from lidar and camera sensors, GPS navigation and driving trajectory information, multi-vehicle data, 3D point cloud images and ground reflectivity maps. Ford will disclose the autopilot data package in mainstream ROS format, and also provide data visualization plug-ins for technicians to use.
There was a fire hazard in the engine, and FAW recalled some Pentium B30 cars.
According to the requirements of the Regulations on the Management of Defective Automobile Product Recall and the Measures for the Implementation of the Regulations on the Management of Defective Automobile Product Recall, China FAW Group Corporation filed a recall plan with the State Administration of Market Supervision, and decided to recall it from July 15, 2020 to September16. Due to the poor matching between spark plugs and ignition systems, vehicles within the scope of this recall may shake, the engine catch fire and fail to start. In extreme cases, the vehicle may turn off when driving, which poses a safety hazard.
Huawei and the first batch of 18 car companies set up the "5G car ecosystem".
Recently, Huawei and FAW Group (FAW Hongqi, FAW Pentium, faw liberation), Changan Automobile, Dongfeng Group (Dongfeng Passenger Car, Dongfeng Xiaokang), SAIC Group (SAIC Passenger Car, SAIC-GM-Wuling), GAC Group (GAC New Energy), BAIC Group (BAIC New Energy), BYD, Great Wall Motor, Chery Holdings, Jianghuai Automobile, Yutong (Bus), Saisai. The first batch of 18 car companies (in no particular order), such as T3 Travel, officially released and established the "5G car ecosystem" to accelerate the commercialization of 5G technology in the automobile industry and * * * create a consumer-perceived 5G car. As an extension of the intelligent networking ecosystem, after the establishment of the 5G automobile ecosystem, Huawei hopes to contribute more technologies, platforms and concepts to the partners of the ecosystem through the advantages of incremental automobile parts, 1+8+N's full scene experience for consumers and the ability of 5G network solutions, so as to serve the good car enterprises more systematically to carry out innovative verification of 5G vehicles and bring consumers a more amazing experience. This echoes Huawei's concept of "focusing on ICT technology and helping car companies build-cars and build-cars".
The Ministry of Finance has issued a letter of soliciting opinions on hydrogen energy vehicles "10 city 1000 vehicles", and all of them are listed in Beishangguang.
The "Letter on Soliciting Opinions (Draft for Soliciting Opinions)" issued by the Ministry of Finance shows: "During the demonstration period, more than 0/000 fuel cell vehicles/KLOC-which meet the relevant technical indicators will be promoted, and the average mileage of accumulated hydrogen consumption per bicycle will exceed 30,000 kilometers." According to the letter of soliciting opinions, the opinions of eight provinces including Beijing, Shanxi, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Henan, Hubei, Guangdong and Sichuan were specifically solicited. The issuance date of the letter for soliciting opinions is April 29th, and the deadline for soliciting opinions is May 7th.
Uber CEO: Medical benefits will be provided to drivers according to working hours.
According to foreign media reports, Uber CEO Dara Kosrosasi said that drivers should get medical benefits commensurate with their working hours, and Uber is preparing to create a system to cash these benefits. Kosrosasi said that this model will make Uber an "entry point" for workers to earn income. They can choose to get medical benefits by increasing working hours, or give up some benefits by reducing working hours. Uber will invest in a fund according to the time invested by drivers. The fund will be used to pay drivers medical benefits and minimum income.
BMW released the new BMW 4 Series renderings.
Recently, foreign media released the renderings of the new BMW 4 Series, and confidently said that this is what it looks like. In fact, through the previous spy photos and the design of various BMW concept cars, we can know that the new BMW 4 Series will have a huge kidney grille. It is expected that the new car will be released in 2020. The new car may also be equipped with a plug-in hybrid device with a capacity of 330e e. The system can provide the vehicle with an additional cruising range of about 35 kilometers through a lithium-ion battery with a capacity of 12 kWh, while the xDrive four-wheel drive version can travel about 32 kilometers.
There was a dispute with Musk, and Tesla's European director left.
According to foreign media reports, Sascha Zahnd, head of Tesla Europe, left after a dispute with Elon Musk. Last year, Jan Oehmicke, former head of Europe, left, and Sascha Zahnd, then vice president of Tesla's global supply chain, succeeded Oehmicke as head of Europe. Now Zander has been in office for less than a year and has chosen to leave. Zahnd is responsible for all Tesla's business in Europe, including sales and service, and also participated in the development of Tesla's Berlin factory.
Zhang Xiaopei, co-founder and chief technology officer of Cheduoduo Group, resigned.
Today, some media reported that Zhang Xiaopei, co-founder and CTO of Cheduoduo Group, stepped down from the group position, and Bai Rubing, co-founder and senior vice president of Cheduoduo Group, took over, taking charge of Cheduoduo's new car and aftermarket business. According to the written information of Cheduoduo Group, after leaving Cheduoduo Group, Zhang Xiaopei will become a partner of Shandong Airlines Capital, responsible for the investment in the field of automobile consumption and improve the layout of Cheduoduo in the field of automobile consumption. At the same time, she will support the development of the group as a consultant for a long time.
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