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The second-tier new power brand Zero Automobile plans to launch a new model. On the 25th of this month, Zero Automobile announced the details of its electric medium and large sedan C01. According to Zero car, it has 3 seconds zero acceleration and a length of 5 meters. Zero Road car regards it as a new flagship model, and the battery life of 700km is scheduled to be released in the second quarter of this year.

Based on the production of zero-running automobile C platform, C01 adopts CTC battery technology similar to Tesla's integration of battery and body production. Tesla adopts this production technology to simplify the junction of the car body, integrate the parts that can be integrated as much as possible, and further reduce vehicle production time. At present, Tesla's order backlog is serious, and its delivery speed is seriously affected by the production speed. Tesla has been upgrading his production process. Therefore, Tesla has been increasing production capacity by improving the production plant and increasing the factory, but unfortunately, at the same time, due to environmental protection reasons, Tesla's super factory in Germany can not be put into production as scheduled.

"Zero running is very confident in self-driving technology, and it is expected to achieve full-scene self-driving technology in 2024 and surpass Tesla in three years," Zhu Jiangming said when zero-running cars launched the zero-running strategy in 2021. "it will enter the new force of car-building Top3 in 2023 and sell 800000 vehicles in 2025," he said. " . The zero-running car C01 uses CTC (Cell To Chassis) technology to integrate the battery module with the lower body, which can greatly improve the impact resistance of the battery and the torsional stiffness of the car body, which is similar to that of Tesla. But at the order level, there is a big gap between the two. According to official figures released by Zero cars, the cumulative sales of Zero cars from January to December in 2021 were 43121, up 278.6% from a year earlier, ranking behind Weimar.

Zero running C01 locates medium and large sedans. Previously, zero running models have launched S01, pure electric A00 class T03 and intermediate pure electric SUV C11 models. The S01 is an immature product, which was officially promoted to include driving assistance functions when it was launched, but when it is actually delivered, it will be upgraded and implemented in a way that can pass the OTA in the future, but up to now, these functions have not yet been pushed to the vehicle during the test, so it has attracted a lot of criticism from car owners. On the day Zero S01 went on the market, 200 car owners sent an open letter to Zero cars, asking manufacturers to give written answers to vehicle quality problems such as braking system failures, power system failures, control system failures, and so on. Zero-running cars finally responded, "the quality of zero-running vehicles meets national standards, and most of the failures are occasional problems, not safety and quality problems."

The subsequent launch of the A00 class T03 has grabbed some markets for Zero run. The manufacturer's guiding price is 6.89-84900, and the annual delivery volume is 38463. For mature brands, the A00 class model is a chicken rib, especially in the face of the sharp rise in the price of batteries and other raw materials since last year, which has greatly reduced the profits of automakers. Half a month ago, Great Wall even announced that black and white cats at this price level would stop taking orders. Dong Yudong, general manager of Euler Automobile, was bluntly saying that he would lose 10,000 yuan on selling a car, and consider resuming production after solving profits and chip problems in the future. outsiders see this as Euler cars making way for the upcoming high-priced models.

Even so, for the new forces still on the road, they have to continue to support the sales of T03 to prove their existence to the market. Therefore, zero running in the functional configuration has injected it with functions such as face recognition, L2 intelligent driving assistance, automatic parking and so on, turning T03 into a low-cost A00-level high-configuration intelligent product. After all, the sales performance of the intermediate pure electric SUV C11 is still mediocre, delivering a total of 4021 vehicles since the delivery began at the end of October last year, while both the T03 and the C11 are facing the problem of delayed delivery, so it will take some time for the new model to become the main sales force. Zero-running cars need to provide more data support for existing models and more comprehensive product coverage for the following story.

More product development means more capital investment. According to the annual report of its shareholder Dahua shares, zero-running cars lost about 307 million yuan, 588 million yuan and 1.39 billion yuan from 2018 to 2020. According to information disclosed by the CSRC early last month, zero-running cars' application to China Securities Regulatory Commission International for listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has been accepted, which means that zero-running cars will be officially listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in the near future.

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