Recently, Hon Hai Group released the official picture of the Model B, a model under Foxconn . The new car is an hatchback , which adopts front and rear through-type headlight design and supports pedestrian lights. However, the picture shows that it still uses a camera-style rearview mirror, which should still be in the concept car stage. It is reported that Model B will be released on October 18, and the first batch of mass-produced cars will be put into production in 2023 and will be sold simultaneously in China, Germany and the United States. At the same time, at the press conference on the 18th, the first pickup truck model of the Foxconn brand will also be unveiled.
From the official picture, the front face of Model B adopts a layered upper and lower design. Although it is a closed center grid, it has a hole in the middle of the layered layer, and the lower part uses an inverted trapezoidal honeycomb grille that is closer to traditional oil vehicles. The through-type headlight shape has also increased the area on both sides. Judging from the official short video, it also supports the lighting function. The recognition is quite high, but whether it looks good or not depends on your opinion. On the side of
, Model B looks very similar to BYD dolphins, with four-wheel and four-corner layout and even the C-pillar shape. There are 3 details. The first is that the camera exterior rearview mirror is still used, which reveals that the car is still in a concept car, and the mass-produced car may be adjusted at that time; the second new car uses low-resistance rims, and ventilation holes are also installed on the fenders, so the wind resistance performance should be paid more attention to; the third is that the car's fenders are also marked with the Pininfarina logo, showing that it is the handwriting of the well-known car design studio Bentley Falina.
At present, the official has not disclosed much specific information about Model B. It only knows that it is built on the MIH electric vehicle platform and the range will be around 500 kilometers. In the future, it will be sold at the same time in the country, Germany, the United States and other places.
As a well-known Apple foundry, Foxconn is well known to domestic consumers. At the moment of great transformation in the automotive industry, Foxconn also wants to get involved. At present, Foxconn has made plans in many places around the world, and its first battery factory in Nanxiong, Taiwan has broken ground; at the end of last year, Foxconn and Geely established a joint venture, and the two parties jointly provided "professional OEM production" for the industry in China; in September this year, it established a joint venture with coal company Indika Energy in Indonesian , planning to produce batteries and electric vehicle locally; at the end of September, Foxconn's Ohio electric vehicle factory began to produce pickup truck models Endurance for the US electric light vehicle manufacturer Lordstown Motors.
Foxconn is also building chip factories in Malaysia and other places. According to the previously announced plan, it will start trial production of 6-inch silicon carbide crystals in 2023, and mass-produce 8-inch wafers and 6-inch wafers in the same year. Foxconn Chairman Liu Yangwei believes that " Hon Hai has completed the layout of the electric vehicle field from 0 to 1 in the past few years. At the same time, it has built a one-stop service base storage to provide an open platform and establish a business model for localization of operations. Foxconn's goal is to occupy about 5% of the global electric vehicle market until the end of 2025."
Editor said: electrification brings an openness that has never been seen in the automotive industry. Internet companies can mix it, and security monitoring company , which is good at visual analysis, can come. Foxconn, an electronics factory with Apple OEM experience, can of course also mix it. Moreover, Foxconn obviously not only builds cars by itself, but plans to do OEM and supply core components together, and this ambition is no less than Huawei.
