In the field of new energy vehicles, Tesla’s position is even higher than that of Volkswagen and Toyota in the fuel vehicle market. Especially last year, although Tesla’s global sales were only 500,000, Tesla’s share price was welcome Here comes a spurt of growth. Up to now, Tesla's market value has reached US$80.55 billion, making it the world's most valuable car company. Musk has therefore replaced Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as the new richest man in the world.
Tesla "catfish" becomes "shark"
Tesla's stock price surge is inseparable from the outstanding performance of the Chinese market. Last year, due to the impact of the epidemic, the European and North American markets were greatly affected Since China’s epidemic has been well controlled, the automobile market has shown a V-shaped growth overall since April last year. The domestically produced Tesla Model 3 last year, due to continuous price cuts and its strong brand influence, basically achieved a monthly sales of tens of thousands of vehicles, becoming the best-selling new energy vehicle in 2020.
On January 1, the domestic Tesla Model Y officially opened pre-sales. Within 10 hours, the number of orders exceeded 100,000, and the official website was overwhelmed. Where is the catfish? It is clearly a shark. It makes people wonder if Tesla is now in an invincible situation in the new energy vehicle market. Is there really no car company that can pose a threat to Tesla in the new energy field? ? Of course not, like Apple.
Apple cars will be put into production in 2024
As the "boss" of the mobile phone industry, Apple's car-building plan is nothing new. As early as 2013, Apple revealed that it would enter the car market and opened its name in 2014. Secretly developed electric vehicles for the "Project Titan" car-building plan.
After so many years, Apple cars still have no news, but occasionally release some scattered reports. Recently, according to foreign media reports, Apple may cooperate with Hyundai Motor Group, one of the world’s four largest automobile groups.The two companies plan to sign a cooperation agreement on electrified self-driving cars in March this year, and are expected to start production in the United States as early as 2024.
reported that Apple and Hyundai Motor Group are planning to produce new cars at Hyundai’s subsidiary Kia Motors’ plant in Georgia, or jointly invest in the construction of a new plant in the United States. They plan to produce 100,000 vehicles at the proposed plant in 2024, with an annual production capacity of 400,000 vehicles. In order to improve the performance of Apple cars, Hyundai Motor Group and Apple plan to launch a test version of Apple cars in 2022.
Although the cooperation between Hyundai and Apple is still in an internal discussion stage, it also shows that Apple cars will not be too far away from us, and 2024 will be three years later. For Tesla, once Apple's car enters the mass production release stage, its lethality is absolutely greater than any other car company now.
Apple's technical strength does not lose to Tesla
Why do you say that? Compared with other car companies, Apple has more sufficient financial support. Up to now, Apple's market value has reached 2.15 trillion US dollars. It can be described as a rich and enemy country. No car company can be like Apple. Strong wealth. For example, in 2020 alone, Apple's investment in the automotive field will reach US$19 billion, while the Volkswagen Group’s R&D investment in 2019 is only US$18.7 billion.
In addition, in the past few years when Apple's car-building plan has been silent, Apple is not inactive. Soon after Apple announced its plans to build a car, it "recruited" and major auto groups became important targets for Apple to dig into the wall. As of 2019, Apple has hired 170 employees from Ford Group, and the number of talents hired from Tesla has exceeded 500 people. Many of Tesla’s core members, including Tesla’s chief car Designer, Vice President of Drive, Senior Vice President and Vice President of Engineering. So, in terms of technical strength, Apple is not weaker than Tesla.
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The future automobile market must be the world of new energy vehicles.Both investors and ordinary consumers are very optimistic about new energy vehicles, which makes it easy for current new energy car companies to attract investors’ interest, and Tesla is like this in just a few years. Become a giant with a market value of over 800 billion US dollars.
For Apple, it is undoubtedly a wise strategic move to enter the automotive field, especially the new energy vehicle field. After Apple cars go on the market in 2024, do you think Tesla will be as rampant as it is now?
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