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Recently, Zhou Hongyi, the founder of the car-building industry, said in an interview with the media: smart electric cars can also be built under 150000 yuan. Zhou Hongyi believes that cars under 150000 in China account for about 70% of all vehicle sales in China, and if the market is not opened, it means that smart electric cars will always be niche products. And the cost of the new technology is high, and only a few people can try it, but once the inflection point of development appears, users begin to enter in a large area and form a network effect, which will further dilute the soft and hard costs. And scale can promote Moore's Law to play a role, thus completely subverting the entire industry. Zhou Hongyi further predicted: "in one or two years, Moore's law will happen in the lidar industry, which will make lidar may also fall to the price of cabbage of one or two hundred US dollars."

Zhou Hongyi said so, or it has something to do with he Xiaopeng. At the 13th China Automobile Blue Book Forum, Xiaopeng founder he Xiaopeng talked about the views of smart cars, believing that "smart" and "electric" represent changes in the exchange of information and energy power, respectively. together, they contribute to the change of car shape and travel life scene. If smart electric vehicles want to do well and make a gross profit, 150000 is the entry and basic price. The cost of battery and intelligent software and hardware will not drop significantly in the short term, and the price range of mainstream models will be 20-300000.

On May 10, 360 issued a statement that it will join hands with Nezha Automobile, one of the new car-building forces, to officially enter the field of smart cars, and gave a car-building manifesto: "Building cars for the people." Zhou Hongyi once said that 360 and Nezha joint car will not be a luxury car, but a smart car that ordinary people can afford, and at the same time, it is not inferior to the car whose price is several times higher in terms of performance, experience and safety. Build a car of about 100000, don't make a toy car, make a real SUV.

At the 13th China Automobile Blue Book Forum, he Xiaopeng said that if a new enterprise said today, "I want to make a highly intelligent car, and the price is 100000 yuan." it is impossible for this enterprise to be profitable before 2025. A smart car worth 100000 yuan can be made and sold, but it cannot make a profit.

Or in response to he Xiaopeng, Zhou Hongyi said, "just because you can't do it doesn't mean the auto industry can't do it. Don't underestimate the scientific and technological innovation ability of Chinese companies. Naha will certainly be able to do it this year. They want to build a high-priced smart car is the second car for consumers, but I'm not. I want to build a national smart car." In Zhou Hongyi's view, he hopes that Nahu car will not provide consumers with cutting-edge technology, but a good intelligent experience. At the same time, Zhou Hongyi also stressed that the technical services are still open, as long as Tesla is willing, I do not mind providing protection to Tesla in terms of network and system security.

According to relevant data, 360 was founded by Zhou Hongyi in September 2005, mainly engaged in free network security platform represented by 360 antivirus and companies with 360 secure brain, mainly relying on online advertising, games, Internet and value-added services to generate revenue. Nezhong Automobile, a brand of Hezhong New Energy Automobile Co., Ltd., was founded on June 1, 2018 and currently has three models, namely, N01, V and U, covering small SUV and compact SUV. According to relevant data, cumulative sales in 2020 were 15091, while Nashi sold 5138 in June, an increase of 536 per cent over the same period last year. From January to June, Nashi car sales totaled 21104, an increase of 478 per cent over the same period last year.

At present, Naha Automobile has a fully ecological wisdom factory in Tongxiang, Jiaxing, with a production capacity of 80,000 vehicles in 2021. Zhang Yong, co-founder and CEO of Nezhan Automobile, said that the Tongxiang all-ecological wisdom factory is open at full power to shorten the delivery cycle, and the Yichun plant is also stepping up construction and is expected to be completed and put into production by the end of this year. In 2021, Nashi aims to sell more than 50,000 vehicles. Judging from the cumulative sales of Nashi from January to June, it is worth looking forward to whether the target can be achieved.

Behind the entry of Internet technology companies to build cars, it is actually the transformation of the automobile industry. Electrification and intelligence have gradually become the trend of automobile development in the future. This transformation will also have a huge impact on the traditional automobile market formed in the past hundred years. It is understood that 360 will take the lead in investing in D-round financing for Naha Automobile, with a financing amount of about 3 billion yuan. Upon completion of all the investments, 360 is expected to become the second largest shareholder in Nezha. It is worth looking forward to whether it can drive the sales of less than 150000 smart cars and realize its declaration of car construction after its cooperation with Nashi Automobile.

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