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not only wants to be Apple's official supplier, will car manufacturing become the next answer to Foxconn ?
Terry Gou has his own opinions on car manufacturing: "Since we can build iPhone, why can't we build electric cars? It's just a four-wheeled iPhone."
This time, 71-year-old Gou was really good.
On October 18, at the Science and Technology Day event held by Foxconn's parent company Hon Hai Group , Terry Gou drove a Model E electric car and officially released three electric car , namely the light SUV Model C, the luxury sedan Model E and the electric bus Model T, which cooperated with Taiwan's local automaker Yulon Automobile, China.
That's right, Foxconn is going to end.
Although the name of the car is still "striking" Tesla , it has been a day or two for Terry Gou to build a car.
In 2005, Foxconn spent 370 million yuan to acquire Antai Electric, one of Taiwan's four major automotive wiring harness factories, and began to use electronic products such as reversing radar and smart devices for vehicles. This is also considered to be Foxconn's first entry into car manufacturing. At that time, Tesla was also a startup company, just acquired Musk's $6.3 million investment the year before.
After that, Foxconn has made a multi-faceted layout in the automotive industry, and in 2013 it entered the supply chain of auto companies such as Tesla, BMW , Mercedes-Benz and other car companies.
But Terry Gou is not satisfied with the division of labor of suppliers in the automotive industry.
In 2015, Harmony Auto , Foxconn, and Tencent jointly established a joint venture company Harmony Futeng and entered the new energy vehicle . Many people have never heard of the name Harmony Futeng, but this joint venture has incubated two car brands, one is Byton car, and the other is Aiways car.
Yes, Byton Automobile, which "burned all 8.4 billion yuan in three years and cannot build mass-produced cars", is currently filing for bankruptcy liquidation. And Aiways Auto is now hot in the new energy track, but there is no sound.
This time I tried again, but Foxconn still didn't seem to have chosen a suitable partner.
Yulong Automobile is a brand in Taiwan Province, China. Since its establishment in 1960, it has been based in the Taiwan market. However, in the late 1990s, Yulong's share in the Taiwan market declined rapidly. By 2009, Yulong's sales had been cut in half compared to 15 years ago.
In order to survive, Yulong turned to the mainland market. In 2010, Yulon and Dongfeng Motor formed a joint venture Dongfeng Yulon , which mainly produces, manufactures and sells Yulon's own brand Nazhijie Automobile. However, this brand has always performed poorly in the mainland market. Due to the high fuel consumption, some netizens called it "a partner of PetroChina , either on the way to cheer up."
As the famous Apple OEM factory, Foxconn has become famous for producing the celebrity product iPhone. Now that we are going to build cars, it is unknown whether we want to get rid of Apple or make cars for Apple to show, but there is indeed a long way to go to succeed.
After all, Musk, the "senior" of this industry, said in an interview five years ago, "Compared with mobile phones or smartwatches, cars are very complicated. You can't find suppliers like Foxconn and say, 'Buy a car for me'."
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