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On May 20, an official letter from Changan Automobile demanding that unfair competition be stopped immediately was exposed online. According to the contents of the official letter, Jiangsu Jimai New Energy vehicle Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Jimai New Energy") issued a series of advertisements for "Lingbao Uni listing Conference" on the Sina Weibo platform, and the advertising language [Uni] has constituted unfair competition for our "UNI series" products. Therefore, it is proposed that Jimai New Energy shall immediately stop the above-mentioned unfair competition from the date of receipt of this letter. And give a written reply to the situation.

Changan Automobile said that Changan Automobile UNI series product naming scheme was released in September 2019, and then listed UNI-T, UNI-K, UNI-V models and carried out large-scale publicity, invested a lot of cost, Changan Automobile "UNI" series products have enjoyed a high reputation in the market at this stage, with a good reputation and market influence. According to Article 6 of the Anti-unfair Competition Law of the people's Republic of China, operators are not allowed to carry out acts of confusion, mislead people to think that they are goods of others or have specific connections with others. Including unauthorized use of the same or similar logo of commodity name, packaging, decoration, etc., which have a certain influence with others; unauthorized use of other influential enterprise names (including abbreviations, font names, etc.), social organization names (including abbreviations, etc.), names (including pseudonyms, stage names, translated names, etc.); unauthorized use of domain names, website names, web pages, etc., which are influenced by others Other confusing acts that can be mistaken for other people's goods or have a specific connection with others.

Therefore, Changan Automobile believes that Lingbao Motor Uni, owned by Jimai New Energy, highlights the use of the word UNI in the poster, which is a confusing behavior that can mislead people to think that it is Changan Automobile UNI series products or has a specific connection with Changan Automobile UNI series products.

Auto industry concerns learned from Lingbao's official Weibo that Lingbao's latest official Weibo shows that it includes three countdown to the listing of Lingbao [Uni] and the latest one released today: "in the name of Uni to witness your good luck, PM5:20 on May 20, live broadcast synchronously on the global platform, Lingbao is cordially invited to jointly guide happiness!" Advertising slogan. In response to the above news, so far, Lingbao has not responded.

Lingbao is a new energy brand of Jiangsu Jimai New Energy vehicle Co., Ltd., and Lingbao Uni is a brand new mini electric vehicle under Lingbao Motors. The new car is officially on the market today, positioning micro pure electric vehicle, a total of two models are launched, the price range is 3.88-49800 yuan, the power is equipped with a rear permanent magnet synchronous motor, maximum power 20kW, peak torque 86N ·m Lithium iron phosphate batteries with 11.52kWh and 15.97kWh capacities have integrated mileage of 140km and 201km respectively.

As for Changan Automobile, according to the concern of the automobile industry, UNI series models are considered to be the key products for the younger transformation of Changan automobile brand. up to now, there are three models in Changan UNI series products, including UNI-T, UNI-K and UNI-V, most of which are priced in the range of 100000 yuan to 150000 yuan. Among them, UNI-T, the first product of Changan UNI series, was launched on June 21, 2020, with an official guiding price of 11.39-133900 yuan; the second model of Changan UNI series, UNI-K, was launched on March 18, 2021, with a total of 4 models with a price range of 15.39-184900 yuan. UNI-V, the third model of the Changan UNI series, was launched on March 21, 2022. The car focuses on the four-door coupe market, launching a total of four models with a price of 10.89-131900 yuan.

The data show that the cumulative sales of UNI-T are 68556 vehicles from June to December 2020, 83610 vehicles for the whole year of 2021, and 31992 vehicles for UNI-K from March to December 2021. The latest figures show that from January to April this year, the cumulative sales of UNI-T, UNI-K and UNI-V were 18586, 13547 and 11380 respectively.

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