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Since the end of February, the epidemic situation in China has been well controlled, and many enterprises have started to return to work. In order to avoid large-scale crowd gathering, the listing mode of car companies has also become online live broadcast, which is considered as an innovation to deal with the epidemic. What new things happened in the car circle in the past week? Let's have a look.

General Motors announced its withdrawal from the markets of Australia, New Zealand and Thailand.

Recently, General Motors, the first of the three American auto giants, once again said that it would withdraw from many global auto markets. In GM's view, these markets will be unprofitable in the future.

According to GM's plan, they will withdraw from Australia, New Zealand and Thailand before the end of the year. In this year's 1 quarter, they will use 1 1 billion dollars as the cost of withdrawing from the above markets.

In recent years, General Motors CEO Mary Bora (Mary? Barra) found that four-fifths of the company's car sales were sold to the two largest markets-Asia and North America, and began to adopt a clear strategic plan, that is, to abandon some regional markets and withdraw from Europe, India, Russia and other regions one after another.

It is reported that the main purpose of GM's rapid "slimming" is to ensure that there are sufficient funds to accelerate the electrification strategy and make a good electrification layout in advance.

Weilai automobile rose by 5. 15%? This prequel Geely will invest $300 million in Weilai.

On the evening of February 20th, Beijing time, as of 10:48 Beijing time, Weilai Automobile rose by 5. 15% to USD 4.29. At current prices, the market value is $4.402 billion.

On February 18, Beijing time, Geely will invest 300 million US dollars in Weilai. Sources also revealed that Geely may integrate Weilai's production capacity, and Geely will contract production for Weilai in the future.

In response to this rumor, the relevant person in charge of Geely Automobile responded that he did not know this matter and did not comment on market rumors. Wei Lai also responded that rumors are not commented, and the disclosure of investment and financing information is subject to the announcement.

If you invest in Weilai, Geely can quickly enter the field of high-end new energy vehicles and reduce research and development time. Wait for the good news!

After replacing the batteries and brakes, Laifu returned to the new york market.

Raffles, the second largest online car company in the United States, announced that it will launch hundreds of motorcycles in New York State. This is also the return of the motorcycle of Laifu to the new york market 10 months after it was suspended due to complaints and injury reports.

2065438+April 2009, Laifu Car retired from motorcycle service. At that time, the company said that the reason was that "a few cyclists reported that their front wheels braked too hard". Raffles said that it has changed the battery supplier and replaced the brake device of the bicycle.

The researchers fooled Tesla: they thought the speed limit of 35 miles was 85 miles.

On the evening of February 19, Beijing time, according to foreign media reports, researchers of network security company McAfee used an "antagonistic machine learning" (also known as "model hacker", model? Hacking), using a 2-inch long electronic tape to extend the short horizontal line in the middle of the number "3" on the speed limit sign of "35 miles per hour" to confuse the Tesla model? X and model? The camera of s electric car Mobileye? EyeQ? 3 system, let them regard the speed limit sign of 35 miles per hour as 85 miles.

It should be pointed out that when it comes to automatic driving functions such as automatic cruise control, Tesla vehicles do not rely entirely on the data received from these cameras, such as the reading of road speed signs (speed limit signs).

Jaguar Land Rover UK employees support China.

Recently, Jaguar Land Rover, one of the board members, is located in Bromage, England. Bromwich) and Halewood factory employees launched a solidarity action to "We are with you, come on, China!" The banner with the word ""expresses deep concern and full support for the people of China.

In China, Jaguar Land Rover also helped the epidemic prevention and control work through various practical actions. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, Jaguar Land Rover China and Chery Jaguar Land Rover have donated 8 million yuan. Among them, 5 million yuan was donated to the Hubei Charity Federation for the procurement of prevention and control materials and the physical and mental health protection of medical workers in areas with severe epidemics, and 3 million yuan was donated to the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation for the prevention of major epidemic diseases in primary and secondary schools.

That's all about this week's auto news. In the face of the epidemic, we helped each other to overcome the difficulties.

This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.