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Nissan is considering buying a stake in a Chinese electric car maker without mentioning the deal, according to Bloomberg; potential brands are Weimar and the car and home brand ideal car.

The picture shows ideal's first addition, SUV: ideal one

Car and Home were founded on a similar date to Weima Motor; the former was founded in July 2015 by Li Xiang, founder of Automobile House. Cars and homes are located in the future intelligent transportation service providers, committed to building intelligent electric vehicles that everyone can easily buy and use.

Weimar announced its establishment in January 2015 and established an R & D center in Germany, founded by Shen Hui and du Ligang, who previously served on the boards of Fiat and Geely Group.

The picture shows the Weima EX5 model.

Both companies have the ability to produce cars independently, and Weima is the first brand to have a self-built factory among the new energy manufacturing forces. Weima has a highly automated vehicle factory in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. it claims to be able to dock customers and implement production-on-demand factories in real time. The digital level can reach the highest level in the industry; the ideal is for che Hejia to acquire the vehicle production qualification of Chongqing Lifan Group for 650 million; the factory in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province can achieve a production capacity of 100000 units per year.

The author believes that if Nissan takes a stake in the above two new energy vehicle companies, it will officially start the pace of new energy models in China. Nissan has the technical and financial strength, its leaf model has already been sold in Europe and North America in 2013; cumulative global sales reached 300000. If Nissan takes a stake in one of the companies, it will benefit both sides, and the two new energy companies can get technical support from Nissan. Nissan will also be able to share data between the two companies to develop electric models that are more suitable for users in China. And can reduce investment through joint research and development; the way of alliance can also be better against the upcoming localization of Tesla

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