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In recent years, the shortage of chips has led to a large reduction in production by automobile manufacturers, which has seriously affected the expansion of global automobile production and sales scale. Therefore, many automobile enterprises can only try their best to reduce the impact of lack of core on automobile sales. According to media reports, people familiar with the matter revealed that due to the serious shortage of radar chips, affecting the delivery of Xiaopeng's new car, Xiaopeng may first deliver the lack of millimeter wave radar models, including Xiaopeng P5, follow-up millimeter wave radar arrived after the reinstallation. For this news, Xiaopeng car said: "The specific information published by us shall prevail." It is worth noting that Xiaopeng P5 was released in April this year, and officials announced that the first deliveries would be made at the end of October. The biggest selling point of the car is its lidar. The XPILOT 3.5 intelligent driving assistance system of the new car integrates 13 HD cameras, 5 millimeter wave radars, 12 ultrasonic sensors and 2 vehicle gauge lidar, totaling 32 sensors.

As for the delivery of millimeter wave radar, as early as early October, the ideal car first introduced a new delivery plan of first delivering and then reinstalling radar. Content of its delivery programme: The three-radar model installed with 1 forward +2 rear angle millimeter wave radar is delivered to the user, and free reinstallation will be carried out for the user from December to next Spring Festival. The model installed with three-radar will not be opened for the time being. Automatic alignment and front crossing vehicle warning will not be opened temporarily. Other ADAS functions can be used normally, and the test has been completed. The user can use it with confidence. The later OTA of NOA needs to be upgraded after the 5 radars are reinstalled. In addition, it said that users can choose to deliver 3 radar models ahead of time or wait until December to deliver 5 radar models, and the ideal car will arrange the corresponding delivery according to the user's opinions. Those who choose to pick up the car in a hurry and are willing to accept the three radar users will be given a lifetime warranty + 10000 points.

Affected by factors such as the shortage of automobile chips, the production and sales volume of China's automobile market has been declining for five consecutive months. According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, passenger car production and sales in September were 1.767 million and 1.751 million, up 20.4% and 14.9% month-on-month and down 13.9% and 16.5% year-on-year. Chen Shihua, deputy secretary-general of the China Automobile Association, said that under the background of chip shortage, the chip shortage problem in the third quarter has been alleviated to some extent, so production and sales month-on-month growth. However, it still cannot meet the production needs. In addition, the base of the same period last year is relatively high. In addition, the orderly electricity consumption policy implemented in many provinces across the country also has a certain impact on automobile production, so the production and sales still decline year-on-year. And the chip shortage problem is difficult to get real relief in the short term, this year the overall production and marketing situation will be high before and low trend.

At present, the automobile industry is still facing the overall lack of core situation, because more semiconductor companies are only willing to supply orders for higher-end chip manufacturing with higher profits, in addition, the global new crown epidemic repeated, but also caused the whole chip manufacturing industry can not quickly solve the problem of "lack of core" of automobile enterprises. It is not difficult to see that the impact of the continued shortage of chip supply is still very stressful for the entire automotive industry.

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