As early as October 18 last year, Foxconn released the pure electric vehicle brand Foxtron. The new brand is created by a joint venture between Hon Hai Group (Foxconn) and Yulon Automobile . It will launch three pure electric vehicles, namely Model C (medium-sized SUV), Model E (medium-sized sedan) and Model T (bus).
However, the new Foxconn car unveiled recently is Model B, positioned as an hatchback , which is expected to be similar to Volkswagen ID.3 and will be officially unveiled on the annual Technology Day on October 18. In other words, it took Foxconn just one year from the release of the brand to the debut of the first model.
As an OEM company, , Foxconn is famous for its OEM and has strong production resources and production capabilities in various industrial chains such as cars, mobile phones, and computers. Many years ago, Foxconn founder and former chairman Guo Taiming said at an internal meeting: " Apple car is just four-wheel iPhone . Since we can build iPhone, why can't we build electric cars?"
Of course, Foxconn still does not have a car manufacturing " birth certificate ", which is why it chose to jointly establish a joint venture with Yulon Automobile in 2020 - Honghua Advanced. For Foxconn, this matter is mixed. What I like is that I can successfully promote brands, build new cars, and promote new products. What I worry about is that Yulon Auto has a bad impression of leaving consumers. Even if it is a hand-off manager who only holds names in the future, it will not prevent consumers from tying the two together.
Another point that affects the user's impression may be the model naming method similar to Tesla products. Whether it is the previously planned Model C, Model E, Model T, or the Model B that reveals its true appearance this time, and the upcoming electric pickup truck Model V, they are all similar to the Tesla Model S and Model Y. If you didn’t know that Foxconn started to build cars, you might think it was Foxconn that manufactured it for Tesla?
In this regard, netizens also talked about it, lamenting that Foxconn is going to take Tesla's path and leave Tesla with no way out. At least Model B/C/E/T/V and others will no longer appear in Tesla's model catalog in the future.
As for the progress of the new car, the Model T is an electric bus with a maximum speed of 120km/h and the vehicle's cruising range will exceed 400km. It was delivered to Kaohsiung passenger transport in March this year and put into operation.
Model C is expected to be officially launched in 2023, with a price of less than NT$1 million (about NT$230,000). This is a seven-seater mid-size SUV with a length of 4640mm/wheelbase of 2860mm. The body adopts a two-color design, and the overall style has a strong pure electrical temperament. Thanks to the optimization of the design, its resistance coefficient is as low as 0.27Cd.
Model E is a medium and large four-door coupe . The car is 5.1 meters long, 2.0 meters wide, and the wheelbase is 3.1 meters. It is definitely a big deal. The long wheelbase of pure electric cars is very obvious, and the low wind resistance of 0.22Cd is worthy of its coupe.
The most information is the Model B, which will be unveiled in the near future. The car is a hatchback and is expected to be similar to the Volkswagen ID.3. It is said that Model B is built on the MIH electric vehicle platform with a cruising range of 500 kilometers and is expected to be sold at the same time in the future, Germany, the United States and other places.
From the official video, the front face of the new car adopts the popular through-type design, and the middle position is the illuminated brand logo, and the bottom is the eye-catching Foxtron English letter logo. It also uses a split lamp group, with the internal shape of the lamp group consistent with the lower grille style, both in the gradient dot matrix style.
Because it is a pure electric hatchback, from the side, the new car belongs to the short and concise type, which is very similar to Volkswagen ID.3, and it also has the meaning of golf, , BYD dolphin. The car uses hidden door handles and low-resistance wheels, and the fenders are also equipped with ventilation holes. It is quite eye-catching with the black body surround and the personalized C-cylinder panel.
A closer look, you will find that its rearview mirror is an electronic version, which also proves that the car is still in the stage of a "concept car" and the mass-produced version will have certain changes in the future.
The rear of the car echoes the front face, and is also a through-style style. The design of the taillight is quite interesting. The LED taillights shown in the demonstration video can show specific patterns, such as pedestrians passing through the front.
There is Ideal, NIO , and then Xiaomi and Huawei . It is no longer a big news for well-known companies to cross-border new energy vehicles. It is reasonable that the "Office King" Foxconn can no longer sit still. But so far, many cross-border car manufacturing have either stayed in the R&D stage or not launched mass-produced models, and are basically still in the "PPT" state. Whether these new Foxconn's cars are joining in the fun or really making a splash will still have to go through the test of time and market.
