Evergrande Group, a mainland real estate developer, ventured into the field of electric vehicles and appeared in the Shanghai Auto Show. However, the public found that the chassis of the electric car samples exhibited by Evergrande were all empty, and visitors were forbidden to photograph the chassis at the booth, which caused widespread controversy.
The Shanghai Auto Show is currently underway, and the mainland-made Evergrande Auto is displaying nine models of “Hengchi Electric Vehicles” for the first time.
A member of the media who went to the auto show broke the news on Weibo that when he was photographing the chassis of Evergrande’s “Hengchi Electric Vehicle”, he found that the chassis was completely empty, with no suspension system and no braking device.
According to Radio Free Asia, at least nine security guards surrounded the display stand of the electric car and prohibited visitors from filming the undercarriage. Evergrande Auto did not explain why. (Click here to view the video)
The news was also confirmed by microblogger “Gogo”. He said: “April 19, the Shanghai Auto Show, Evergrande Hengchi car booth, a person with knowledge of the reflections from the bottom of the Hengchi car show car found that the car chassis below is completely empty. Subsequently, the extreme fruit Jun rushed to the Hengchi exhibition area, found that the security personnel have not allowed the audience to shoot under the car. This is not a place where there are no silver linings?
Netizen “logic manipulation” lamented: “Shanghai Auto Show, Evergrande Auto booth put 9 display cars, but it is empty shell of pure model cars? I have to say, Evergrande car let us see, from the PPT car to participate in the auto show, really can do whatever you want ah.”
In the Shanghai Auto Show, Evergrande Hengchi car was photographed with the chassis being completely empty. (Microblog screenshot)
Evergrande Hengchi Auto’s booth at the Shanghai Auto Show was heavily guarded and did not allow the chassis to be photographed. (Screenshot from Weibo)
The nine cars unveiled by Evergrande at the Shanghai Auto Show have not yet entered mass production, but Evergrande Auto has been listed last year and has been called “the first domestic car company in terms of market value”.
At the press conference of Shanghai Auto Show, Liu Yongzhuo, president of Evergrande Auto Group, said that “Hengchi Electric Vehicle” will enter full-scale trial production in the fourth quarter of this year, with large-scale delivery next year and sales exceeding 5 million units in the next 14 years. But the outside world widely questioned whether real estate developer Evergrande Group can really make cars.
Ms. Yao, a businesswoman engaged in import trade in Zhejiang Province, told Radio Free Asia, “The nine cars you saw Evergrande display at this auto show are all models. I don’t think it’s possible to build a car. It’s also hard for cell phone manufacturers to build cars. First, it’s harder to build cars than cell phones. I recently learned that a friend of mine asked me to find a high precision glue from South Korea, that is, the glue needed to bond the cell phone, China can not be made, not to mention that the car is now this (chip is difficult to find) situation, and more difficult than making a cell phone.”
In addition to Evergrande Group, mainland Internet companies have also invested in the field of car manufacturing, such as Baidu, Xiaomi, Huawei, etc., which is ridiculed as “the great leap forward of electric cars.
Radio Free Asia quoted the analysis of the financial scholar Commander, said that companies may swarm to build cars and last year to build chips, but ultimately nothing.
I think this is China’s effort to seize the manufacturing initiative, especially the key components of industry, which are still difficult to achieve self-sufficiency,” he said. Core technology, including chips, chips for cars China is also difficult to produce, China wants to really no longer rely on imports, in fact, there is still a long way to go.”
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