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In the year 2019, which is coming to an end, the new power of Aichi has finally completed the layout of listing, store opening and sales. A few days ago, Aichi officially announced that all offline experience stores have been opened, which means that Aichi has gradually improved the construction of the new retail system.

It is reported that Aichi opened the opening ceremony of 12 offline experience stores in 10 cities, including Tianjin, Shanghai, Zhengzhou, Hangzhou, Kunming, Chengdu, Hefei, Qingdao, Changchun and Quanzhou. Up to now, Aichi has authorized 44 sales channel partners and 50 service channel partners, basically realizing the coverage of the major regional markets in the country.

Aichi said that in the future, it will speed up channel expansion and landing around 6 core cities, 44 provincial capitals and key new energy market cities.

According to public data, Aichi Automobile Co., Ltd. was founded on February 15, 2017, is an intelligent electric vehicle company driving the evolution of the automotive industry, with a registered capital of 801.5722 million, mainly engaged in new energy vehicles and parts of technology research and development, product development. It is also the largest shareholder of Jiangling Holdings, with a shareholding ratio of 50%.

Its first model, Aichi U5, was launched on December 19th and is positioned as a medium-sized SUV; with a total of four models: ING, ING+, PRO and PRO+, with a price of 19.79-292100 yuan. Based on the MAS platform, positioning A+ class pure electric medium-sized SUV model, the overall design style is simple, and the NEDC operating condition life display is 503km.

However, it is this model with high hopes that was "hit in the face" by the European E-NCAP crash test on the same day. According to the latest crash test results released by the automobile safety certification authority E-NCAP (European Association for Safety Evaluation of New cars), Aichi U5 only gets a Samsung rating in the E-NCAPd crash test.

Aichi was founded with an international layout as its goal, and according to the plan, in addition to being sold in the domestic market, it will also be sold to the European market, where mass delivery will begin in the second quarter of next year. And in Germany Ingolstadt (Ingolstadt) to establish a subsidiary company Aichi Kumbo Automobile Co., Ltd., by the "father of Audi Quattro" Roland Gumpert as the general manager and head of the technology center. But the poor performance in the European crash test seems to have planted a destabilizing factor for its plans to go to sea.

For Aichi, which has delivered new cars later than many new power car companies, it has even threatened that sales will become the first place among new power car companies next year, because it is supported not only by domestic sales, but also by foreign sales.

But for this move, Cao he, secretary general of the Automobile Chamber of Commerce of the all-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, thought it was just a gimmick, saying, "my market is not clear yet, not to mention the European market." At this stage, we should still take root in the Chinese market and pass the survival barrier. "

Indeed, the new power car companies led by NIO have already launched the second and third mass production models in terms of new cars, while the Aichi U5 is just a model that has just been launched and has not been verified by the market. It seems that no matter which new power car company will threaten to achieve its goal at the beginning of its listing.

But among the current army of new forces, only more than 10 have completed delivery, such as NIO, Weimar, Xiaopeng, Nezha, Xinte, Zero run, and so on. Even for the enterprises that have completed the delivery, the delivery volume is hardly optimistic, only NIO, Weimar and Xiaopeng strong insurance exceeded 10,000 vehicles, and none of them achieved the annual target set at the beginning.

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