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Ideal cars, affected by a lack of cores, have purchased thousands of electronic parking chips at a high price in the black market, with a purchase price of 5000 yuan per piece, according to China Finance and Economics, citing people familiar with the matter. More than 800 times the normal price.

In response to this report, the media contacted the official of ideal Automobile, which said: "this information is not true. We do try our best to ensure the supply of chips when there is a shortage of chips. it is a very normal industry behavior that all car companies will choose to buy spot chips in formal channels to ensure supply."

Although ideal cars deny buying chips at high prices on the black market, ideal cars are currently affected by a shortage of chips. After entering 2021, the sales of ideal cars have been rising, surpassing Xiaopeng and NIO for two consecutive months in July and August. According to ideal Auto's plan, more than 10,000 new cars are expected to be delivered in September, becoming the first brand in the force of new cars to sell more than 10,000 cars a month. However, in September, the total delivery volume of ideal cars fell to 7094, while that of Ulai and Xiaopeng both exceeded 10,000. Ideal cars fell to fourth place, lagging behind Ulai, Xiaopeng and Nezha.

In response to the chip shortage, ideal Motor Co-founder and President Shen Yanan said recently: "due to the continuing shortage of chip supply, ideal car delivery declined in September." We are taking more measures to ensure the supply of spare parts and hope to shorten the waiting period for users to pick up the car as much as possible.

Before the National Day, ideal Motors announced that due to the shortage of chips from millimeter wave radar suppliers, the company expects car delivery to fall from 25000 to 26000 vehicles in the third quarter of 2021 to 24500 vehicles. In order to minimize the impact of chip shortages on new car delivery, ideal cars will communicate with users and plan to deliver vehicles that lack some millimeter wave radar chips.

In addition, the ideal car also released a new product delivery plan during the National Day. Under normal circumstances, the ideal ONE produced by the ideal car should be equipped with five millimeter wave radars, but according to the new product delivery plan, the vehicles delivered by the ideal car in October and November are only equipped with one forward millimeter wave radar and two rear angle millimeter wave radars, and it is planned to install the remaining two millimeter wave radars for pick-up users before the Spring Festival next year. At the same time, the OTA of the ideal driving assist system (NOA) needs to be carried out after 5 radars have been reinstalled. Ideal car said that users can choose to deliver 3 radar models in advance or wait until December to deliver 5 radar models, and ideal cars will arrange the corresponding delivery according to users' opinions. "

Although NIO, Xiaopeng and other car manufacturing enterprises have sold more than 10,000, but the future product delivery situation is not optimistic. At present, the problem of core shortage in the global automobile industry has still not been alleviated, and the orders of many semiconductor companies are supplied to higher-profit high-end chip manufacturing, coupled with the repeated global COVID-19 epidemic, the entire chip manufacturing industry was unable to solve the "core shortage" problem of automobile companies this year.

The China Automobile Circulation Association said that sales are expected to rise in October compared with September, the peak of the automotive chip gap has passed, and the supply of chips will slowly increase in the future, but it will take 3-5 months to reach the end sales of cars.

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