BYD cut prices at the beginning of the year: electricity is lower than oilOn February 19, BYD launched the Qin plus glory version and the destroyer 05 glory version, which was reduced by 20,000 yuan compared with the previous champion version, and the accompanying text said: Electricity is lower than oil. 
Among them, there are 5 models of Qin PLUS DM-i, with a price of 7Starting at 980,000 yuan, the Qin PLUS EV also has five models with a price of 10From 980,000 yuan; The Destroyer 05 is a full range of pure electric, with a total of 6 models and a starting price of 7980,000 yuan. Gaohe Automobile was suspended for 6 monthsAccording to Zhongxin Jingwei, since February 18 this year, Gaohe Automobile has entered a stage of comprehensive shutdown, which is tentatively scheduled for 6 months. The factory was not allowed to enter, and the payment of wages in January was postponed to the end of February. 
Among them, wages will be paid normally from February 1 to February 18, and the payment date is to be determined; From February 18 to March 18, the basic salary is paid at 70% of the employee's salary; After March 18, the basic living allowance will be paid in accordance with the minimum security standard of the region; Employees who are eager to pay social security need to go through the resignation procedures and pay social security by themselves before February 25. Xpeng will launch about 30 new products or facelifts in three yearsOn February 18, He Xiaopeng, chairman of Xpeng Motors, said in an internal open letter that about 30 new products or facelifts are planned within three years. Among them, this year, Xiaopeng will release the first car of the platform on the platform of 300,000 yuan and 150,000 yuan, which complements the two important cornerstones of Xiaopeng's layout at the level of 100,000-400,000 yuan. In terms of R&D investment, more manpower will be invested in 2024 (about 4,000 people will be recruited) and more than 40% of the R&D budget will be invested year-on-year. It is estimated that the annual R&D investment in AI technology with intelligent driving as the core will be 3.5 billion yuan. The Ideal MEGA and **L series will be launchedOn February 19, Li Auto announced that the 2024 spring conference will be held at 15:00 on March 1, when the family technology flagship MPV Ideal MEGA and the 2024 Li L series models will be launched. 
Among them, the ideal MEGA has been shown to the public during the 2023 Guangzhou Auto Show, with a length, width and height of 5350 1965 1850mm, a wheelbase of 3300mm, and a drag coefficient of 0215cd。The new car will be built on an 800V platform, with a peak power of 400kW, and will be equipped with a CATL 5C Kirin battery, which can charge 500km in 12 minutes. The Xiaomi People's Car Home Whole Ecological Conference is finalizedOn February 18, Lei Jun, founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Group, announced that at 7 p.m. on February 22, Xiaomi 14Ultra officially debuted. This is the first human-car-home all-ecology conference in Xiaomi's history. It is expected that during this press conference, more information about Xiaomi cars will be officially announced. 
Previously, the main data of Xiaomi SU7 has been announced, its length, width and height are 4997 1963 1440mm, wheelbase 3000mm, will be equipped with a surging OS-based ecological operating system for people and cars, as well as a self-developed intelligent driving system with dual ORIN chips. In terms of power, the Xiaomi SU7 dual-motor version has a maximum power of 495kW and a 000 acceleration of 2In 78 seconds, it is equipped with a CATL ternary lithium battery with a capacity of 101 kWh, and the CLTC range is 800 km. Musk talked about FSD by SoraOn February 17, OpenAI, which created ChatGPT, released the first Wensheng ** model Sora. The model can generate up to 1 minute of high-definition ** according to the instructions entered by the user, and can also generate ** from existing static images, or expand the existing ** to fill in the missing content. 
An X user shared a ** generated by Sora of a woman strolling through the streets of Tokyo, and some users commented on it GG Pixar, and Musk responded to GG Humans. GG is the abbreviation of the online game term good games, which is mainly used after the game is over, and can be used by both winners and losers. In addition, Musk also posted: Tesla was able to generate the real world with accurate physics about a year ago. This isn't a super fun thing to do, as all the training data comes from a car, so it looks like it's coming from a Tesla, albeit dynamically generated. Our FSD training is not compulsive, so we haven't used other ** for training yet, but of course it is possible. Later this year, when we have free computing power, we will train. 」Faraday Future is being sued for rent arrearsOn February 17, according to foreign media reports, Faraday Future's Los Angeles headquarters landlord Rexford Industrial filed a lawsuit against Faraday Future in Los Angeles Superior Court this week. 
It alleges that Faraday Future defaulted on rent and related maintenance fees and taxes for January and February, totaling 91,787$26 and demanded the repossession of the building. Not only that, Faraday Future was also sued by its landlord in the San Jose office, BXP Realty, alleging that Faraday Future did not pay rent in December last year, and the outstanding balance reached 127311$16. On February 18, Faraday Future responded by actively cooperating with the landlords of the San Jose office and the Gardina headquarters, and conducting friendly negotiations on the current situation to resolve the situation as soon as possible. Continental will lay off 7,150 jobsOn February 14, auto parts giant Continental announced that it would carry out a series of cost reduction and efficiency improvement plans around the world, including large-scale layoffs, in the name of improving the competitiveness of its automotive subgroup. 
The automotive subgroup, which is the weakest profitability of Continental, is still the hardest hit by layoffs and cost reductions, with plans to lay off 7,150 people worldwide, equivalent to 38% and 7% of the total number of employees in the automotive subgroup. BMW private key and data breachAccording to overseas ** reports, a configuration error occurred in BMW's cloud storage server, resulting in the exposure of sensitive information such as private keys and internal data. The exposed data includes BMW's cloud service private keys in China, Europe and the United States, as well as login credentials for BMW's production and development databases, although it is unclear exactly how much data was exposed. A BMW spokesperson has confirmed that the data breach affected Microsoft Azure buckets, which are based on storage development environments, and said that no customer or personal data was affected as a result. The spokesperson added: "The BMW Group has fixed this issue in early 2024 and we will continue to monitor the situation with our partners. 」Yu Chengdong wants to cancel the smart driving testOn February 12, Yu Chengdong, Executive Director of Huawei, CEO of Device BG, and Chairman of Intelligent Vehicle Solution BU, shared his experience of driving the M9 from Anhui to Shenzhen in a post on Moments. 
He said that the whole journey is 1,314 kilometers, and he has driven 400 kilometers. However, according to the regulations, the steering wheel is not allowed to be left for a long time, so the intelligent driving function is disabled twice on the way. Once he was fined three minutes for taking his hands off the steering wheel for a long time, and then he was fined again for making intelligent driving unusable. Yu Chengdong said that he could only use the power off the car to resume intelligent driving, hoping to cancel the hands-off detection function and use DMS to detect the driver's status.