New travel hotspot 丨 WeChat launched a taxi function, Baidu's new generation unmanned car cost drops to 250,000 yuan

Hotspot 1: WeChat online taxi function

On July 24th, a reporter from "Daily Economic News" found that Tencent Travel is taking a taxi service on WeChat internal testing. Users can search for "Tencent Travel Service" through WeChat "My-Service-Travel Service" or searching for "Tencent Travel Service" in WeChat Mini Program.

From a model point of view, Tencent travels, like Gaode, adopts a polymerized network -car rental mode. At present, the capacity platform access to Beijing includes Cao Cao's travel, sunshine travel, and Shouqi car dating.

Photo source: Tencent Travel Screenshot

The Beijing Business Daily reported that people familiar with the matter revealed that WeChat taxi service is still in the gray test stage. Relying on WeChat ecology, open -access compliance travel service providers, and travel service providers to provide users with aggregate travel services, not Tencent, not Tencent Do a taxi service in person.

Comments: WeChat has a strong social exchange advantage. After entering the online ride -hailing market, passenger resources can be effective. However, there are currently blind spots in the aggregate car rental model. How to ensure the safety of passengers' ride is also the focus of the current industry's attention.

Hotspot 2: Baidu launched the sixth -generation drone Apollo RT6 with a cost price of only 250,000 yuan

On July 21, at the 2022 Baidu World Conference, Baidu (BIDU, a stock price of $ 140.01, $ 48.4 billion) launched the sixth generation of unmanned cars Apollo RT6. model.

Picture source: Photo by reporter Sun Lei

Baidu chairman Li Yanhong said: "We reduced the cost of unmanned cars to only 1/10, and the future of Robotaxi is half cheaper than the current taxi."

Comments: Regarding the cost price of 250,000 yuan, Baidu said that the cost of vehicle cost, the advantages of Chinese manufacturing, and the reduction of self -driving hardware costs are the main three aspects. This may mean that the price of Robotaxi will decrease significantly in the future.

Hotspot 3: Tesla announced the second quarterly report, with revenue increased by more than 40 %

On July 20, local time, Tesla (TSLA, a stock price of $ 816.73, a market value of $ 846.5 billion), released in the second quarter of 2022, shows that the company achieved revenue of US $ 16.934 billion in the second quarter of this year, an increase of 42%year -on -year. Slightly higher than the analyst's expectations of US $ 16.88 billion; net profit was 2.259 billion US dollars, and the adjustment was US $ 2.62 billion.

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Regarding the reasons for the increase in revenue year -on -year, Tesla explained that this is mainly due to the increase in the increase in the amount of car delivery in the second quarter of this year and the increase in the average sales price of the vehicle.

Official data show that from April to June this year, Tesla's global output was about 258,600 units, and the delivery was about 254,700 units, a decrease of about 55,300 units from the first quarter, and a decrease of 17.84%from the previous month. This is the first time that Tesla's delivery has declined for the first time since the first quarter of 2020.

Comments: In the long run, Tesla does not need to worry about customer needs, and the capacity climbing driven by new factories is the issue that Tesla needs to care about. In addition, in addition to selling electric vehicles, new breakthroughs in new businesses such as autonomous driving will also effectively help Tesla's market value growth.

Hotspot 4: Volkswagen and Significant Semiconductor Cooperation to develop new chips

According to foreign media reports, on July 20, Volkswagen Group and STMicroelectronics said that the two companies will jointly develop a new semiconductor to cope with the current global micro -chip crisis that leads to tight supply chain in the automotive industry.

Photo source: Photo by reporter Li Xing (data map)

The Volkswagen Software Department CARIAD said in May this year that the company will also procurely procurement system chips to develop L4 -level autonomous driving, and a CARIAD spokesman said that the latest agreement will not affect the cooperative relationship with Qualcomm.

Neither Volkswagen nor STDs were disclosed, but the transaction made the transaction one of the top technical partners of Volkswagen.

Comments: This is the first time that Volkswagen Group has established a relationship with the second and third semiconductor suppliers, indicating that it is trying to obtain greater control over chip supply.

Hotspot 5: Honeycomb energy and Ningde Times reached settlement

Recently, under the host of the Ningde Intermediate People's Court in Fujian Province, Ningde Times (SZ300750, a stock price of 52.251 yuan, a market value of 1.28 trillion yuan) and Honeycomb Energy Technology Co., Ltd. No. 74] Reach reconciliation.

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In Ningde Times received 5 million yuan in reconciliation of honeycomb energy. On July 18th, the two parties received the "Civil Mediation Letter" from the Ningde Intermediate People's Court. Through full friendly negotiations between the two parties, the lawsuit caused by unfair competition finally reached a settlement.

Comments: At present, the competition between the power battery market is intricate. All the giants are in -depth in the upstream. The investment of lithium orthopedic companies and lithium mining companies in order to seize the right to speak in the market. This time, although the hive energy has reached a settlement with the Ningde era, the two sides will still face fierce commercial competition in the future.

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