In the early days of reform and opening up, a Toyota representative was invited to visit the Shanghai Automobile Factory.
As soon as he entered the door, he was frightened by the deafening hammer knock. After going around the workshop, he said something hurting the Chinese in the audience:
This is the production method of our grandfathers.
At that time, the national car production was only a few thousand vehicles in a year. Whether it was upstream R&D, procurement, or downstream marketing and after-sales, there was no system at all.
and so, with , the golden sentence of Wang Xing, the founder of Meituan : In the era of traditional fuel vehicles, there is no reason for Chinese companies to win.
However, the next half sentence is: In the era of smart electric vehicles, Chinese companies have no reason to lose.
Although Meituan is a giant in the Internet era, it still belongs to the "children" in the face of the automobile industry.
Before you figure out whether Chinese cars can win, you must first answer a question: In the era of fuel vehicles, where did Chinese car companies lose?
1. Congenital bad?
Cars were invented by the Germans and Americans carried forward with assembly lines. In the 1970s, they were sent to a new level by the Japanese, and only China was blank.
In 1956, China's first car was born in Changchun and was named "Jiefang Brand".
However, with the cooling of Sino-Soviet relations, coupled with the technical blockade of the " Paris Coordination Committee " led by the United States, China's automobile industry has stagnated and has been in the original stage of hammer car manufacturing for a long time.
It was not until 1985 when Volkswagen Group and SAIC formed a joint venture " Shanghai Volkswagen " that the Chinese automobile industry began to be specific.
But embarrassingly, as the first domestic car, Santana is only a pitiful .7%. The only proportion of this is still from four parts without technical content: tires, horns, antennas, and signs.
The entire era of fuel vehicles, we have been making up for the lessons in the disadvantages of latecomers, and used the market to exchange talents, experience and technology.
result, not only did not achieve a counterattack and overtake, but instead cultivated a prodigal son like " FAW ".
In one sentence, it is summarized as: Chinese fuel vehicles lost to the starting line . If you want to overtake on the curve, you may only be able to open up a new market by using the United States to defeat Japanese semiconductors - .
2, new energy vehicle breaking through
2000, regarding the way out of China's automobiles, Wan Gang, who is still working in Audi , presented a plan to the former Minister of Science and Technology: new energy vehicle , which coincides with the ideas of senior management.
8 After 2008, when the "Ten Cities and Thousand Vehicles" project was launched, BYD , which entered the new energy vehicle early, was already one of the four giants in China's lithium battery.
In the process of the development of new energy vehicles, Chinese auto companies have experienced battery patent litigation in hydropower in Quebec, Canada, crazy suppression by Japanese and Korean battery manufacturers, and super catfish Tesla disruption.
Even so, a large number of new energy vehicle companies have grown. The leaders include BYD, which is a domestic production chain, and the new forces include "Wei Xiaoli" who surfs in US stocks and surfing in , and the second formation includes Zero Run, WM Motor, and "Little Nezha".
By the first half of 2022, BYD's sales exceeded 640,000, and increased by 314% year-on-year, ranking first in the world.
4 months later, BYD doubled this number , firmly taking the top spot in new energy vehicles in the world.
Interestingly, in early December, someone used six cars to perform a "body twisting rigidity test". The contestants were: Porsche panamera, Mercedes-Benz GLS, BMW 7 Series , Lexus RX, BYD Seal, Cadillac XT5.
Six vehicles were tested for no-load slope and manned slope respectively.
In the no-load test, the trunk of Porsche and Cadillac cannot be closed. Although Mercedes-Benz and Lexus can be closed, there are different gaps on the left and right.
In the subsequent manned test, Lexus was eliminated, only BMW and seals passed the level perfectly.
A noteworthy detail is that in addition to the seal priced at around 200,000, the other five models are at the lowest price of 400,000, and the highest is exceeded 1 million.
But in the body twist rigidity test, the lowest-priced seal passed the way.
On the surface, this is a demonstration of the pressure resistance and safety of BYD Seal. In fact, it is a microcosm of the development of China's new energy vehicles to this day - has achieved the performance of its products to the world's first-class level with its super high cost performance, and has the ability to rub foreign brands on the ground.
Standing at the moment, looking at Wang Xing's sentence "In the era of smart electric vehicles, Chinese companies have no reason to lose", it is like a revelation.
