Two things have been interesting lately.
The first thing is that another car company has been pushed by China, and Mercedes-Benz has been lying flat.
At the annual general meeting of Mercedes-Benz, the CEO of Mercedes-Benz announced that Mercedes-Benz would abandon its all-electric plan in view of the fact that the popularity of electric vehicles did not meet expectations. In the next 10 years, we will continue to develop fuel vehicles, and fuel vehicles will be the main plan route of Mercedes-Benz.
Mercedes-Benz CEO said that Mercedes-Benz is developing a new internal combustion engine model, which it plans to introduce to the market in 2027. This move is to ensure that Mercedes-Benz's internal combustion engine technology remains competitive in 2030. Looking at their statement, I have a black question mark, now that new energy vehicles are developing so rapidly, Mercedes-Benz is counting on maintaining the so-called competitiveness of fuel vehicles in 2030, will the market give so much time to the old fuel vehicle manufacturers?
No wonder netizens commented: This is because you can't catch up with domestic cars and choose to lie flat, and you are sure that you can't roll up domestic cars, etc. What makes Mercedes-Benz slightly embarrassed is that after Mercedes-Benz made this statement, Mercedes-Benz's stock price responded **59%。That is to say, the market is not optimistic about Mercedes-Benz's all-electric plan at all, believing that Mercedes-Benz is not actually competitive in this area.
Interestingly, Mercedes-Benz's electric vehicle sales in 2023 have achieved a year-on-year increase of 61%, with a cumulative sales of 240,000 units. Looking at the year-on-year results, it is good, but looking at the total amount is really not enough. This is because BBA cars have accumulated many years of reputation in China.
For a long time, some people believed that the moon was still round in a foreign country, that the air in the United States was sweet, and that everything was good in the United States and the West. This kind of recognition actually gives American and Western companies a lot of innate advantages. In fact, everyone knows what level of BBA new energy vehicles is, and they can't support their current sales at all.
Some netizens said before that if he saw someone buy a BBA green car, he would think that this person is stupid and loves to pretend to be B, and he doesn't even have the ability to obtain basic information in the Internet era, and he loves vanity and is very good at fooling.
Another netizen commented, that's right. His colleague bought the beggar version of X3 in 2018, and the insurance landed 520,000 yuan in three years. Later, BBA was squeezed by domestic cars and had to reduce the price sharply, and this year, another colleague landed 290,000 yuan, and the first person was broken.
Recently, BYD has made a series of price reduction combinations, playing the slogan of "electricity is lower than oil", which has put a lot of pressure on joint venture cars. The joint venture cars were forced to respond to the battle, and they all responded with the slogans of "oil is stronger than electricity", "oil is more stable than electricity", and "oil is lower than electricity".
Times are changing so fast that many people can't react. Not to mention these joint venture car companies and foreign-funded car companies, the Chinese people have not turned a corner in it, especially too many Chinese people are still in the outdated perception that the quality of foreign countries is good.
For example, some people say that people can reduce their prices so much, which means that people still have to make money. Some people also say that people who leave your Chinese market are still living a nourishing life, and they may be the first in the world, such as Samsung mobile phones. Some people also say that when you kill the sky in the dark, people and foreign companies will come in and clean up the mess.
That's a bit cheap.
You said that why others could cut you with high profits before, it's not that your domestic production has not risen, and you want to cut you. You can't look down on domestic products when you reduce allocation and raise prices, and you think that other people's things are good. Now that the domestic country is fighting for you, is there something wrong with your yin and yang?
The second thing is that the United States has attacked China again, and it is two heavyweights at the top who shot at the same time.
The first is Biden, who said that the United States has decided to take "unprecedented action" against electric vehicles exported to China.
The reason Biden gave was the so-called "China's determination to dominate the electric vehicle market through unfair behavior". But we know that the United States has enacted a bill to provide huge subsidies for cars sold in the United States, which is very unfair.
But the people of Angsa, everybody understands.
Biden also used his imagination to say that China's connected cars would collect data on U.S. citizens and infrastructure and then send it back to China. These vehicles can also be remotely accessed or remotely disabled.
Now the export tariffs imposed by the United States on Chinese cars have been as high as 275%, which also leads to the fact that Chinese cars are basically not sold in the United States, and they are not actually sold in the United States. But American cars can be sold in China, and we have built factories for American cars.
However, the United States feels that this is not enough, and some lawmakers have proposed to reduce tariffs on Chinese cars from 275% to 125%. In addition, in order to block the "bathing cars" from China and prevent them from coming in from third countries, a 100% tariff will also be imposed on Chinese cars assembled in Mexico.
The United States has completely lost its mind, and we need to respond in advance to the various riotous operations that they may increase in the future.
Another U.S. ** who is making trouble is Secretary of Commerce Raimondo, who is the image spokesperson of Mate60Pro. She said that in order to protect Americans, the United States decided to launch an investigation into China's connected cars.
Her argument is similar to that of Biden, that if there are millions of Chinese cars driving on American roads, they are collecting data from millions of Americans, every minute of every day, and then sending that data back to Beijing. What a terrible thing to do.
She also made a hilarious assumption: Imagine if there were 3 million Chinese cars on American roads, and Beijing could turn them off at the same time.
Brothers, don't laugh, this is a very serious problem.
We know that these bandits in the United States and the West have little imagination, and it is difficult for them to imagine anything that they do not have. When they accuse others of doing something, they have been doing it this way for a long time.
Then what we need to be vigilant about is whether the American cars represented by xxx are collecting data on Chinese citizens and infrastructure, whether they will transmit these data back to the United States and cause harm to China's economy and people's livelihood, whether they will eavesdrop on us like their prism door, whether they will make millions of cars in our country far more than they described, and so on.
Don't think it's impossible.
Now that our domestic cars are rising, we don't need to worry about foreign car companies controlling our auto industry. Imagine that we are still like more than 20 years ago, domestic car companies can't stand up, and they are wantonly dumped by the United States, Japan, Germany, France, South Korea and other automobile powers, and all the cars on the street are foreign cars. The operating system is Microsoft Windows and Google's Android, the social ** is X and Facebook, the database is all Oracle and DB2, the network switch and router use Cisco, will the United States not eavesdrop on you, will it not steal your data?
Considering what the United States has done in the past, this question should not be asked. In that case, you have a little secret in front of the United States? A little security in front of the United States? There is not the slightest possibility.
If it weren't for our own competition, in the era of intelligent car connection, the United States remote control, so that millions of our cars turned off on the street at the same time, not only is it not impossible, but we need to consider, very real problems.
Although the situation of being fully controlled by others will not appear, considering that the United States is becoming more and more inferior, more and more paranoid, and more and more hostile to China, we need to make technical reserves in advance in the fields of new energy vehicles, on-board intelligent operating systems, and on-board chips.
In the future, one day the United States will suddenly launch a madness and target our auto industry like sanctions on the mobile phone industry, we should not be caught off guard, and we should be prepared to remain competitive as we do with the United States.
I believe we already have such a plan.
This article was first published on WeChat***Kunpeng**.