Will JAC sign a contract with Xiaomi?

Jianghuai Automobile issued a clarification announcement: After verification by the company, the report of Jianghuai or OEM for Xiaomi was untrue. Up to now, the company has not discussed with Xiaomi about cooperation in building cars, nor has it reached any intention to cooperate in building cars.

According to previous reports, Xiaomi Group officially announced its entry into the field of car-making on March 30 this year. Xiaomi Group plans to set up a wholly-owned subsidiary to be responsible for the smart electric vehicle business; The initial investment is 654.38+0 billion yuan, and it is estimated that the investment in the next 654.38+00 years will be 654.38+0 billion dollars. Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi Group, will also be the CEO of smart electric vehicle business.

Since Xiaomi announced the construction of the car, Lei Jun has frequently visited various OEMs and communicated with many car companies such as Chang 'an, SAIC, GAC and Great Wall. Since June, Xiaomi official website has been recruiting talents related to the automobile industry, including autopilot engineers, motor development engineers and high-voltage system simulation and design engineers.

Head of power integration, body architecture expert, vehicle general layout expert, etc. , working in Haidian District of Beijing and Xuhui District of Shanghai. On July 28th, Lei Jun, chairman of Xiaomi Group, officially announced through Weibo that Xiaomi Automobile started the recruitment of autonomous driving department, and the first batch of 500 autonomous driving technicians were recruited. There are indications that Xiaomi is still in the stage of forming a team and preparing to build a car.

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There are two roads in front of Xiaomi, either self-built factories for production and sales, or OEM through other car companies. If Xiaomi wants to build his own factory to realize self-production and self-sale, he needs to obtain production qualification. At present, the state strictly controls the production qualification of pure electric passenger cars, and it is difficult for Xiaomi to obtain the production qualification by himself.

Then the only shortcut is to achieve mass production by acquiring qualified car companies. You can refer to Xpeng Motors' acquisition of Foday and zero-run acquisition of new Fidelity. The other is to choose OEM, which is also a common way for new forces to build cars at present. By cooperating with traditional car companies, the purpose of mass production of models can be achieved.

This move can refer to Haima's OEM for Tucki, Jianghuai's OEM for Weilai and Changjiang's OEM for Zero Run. Judging from the funds of Xiaomi Group, by acquiring qualified car companies, mass production of models can be realized, which can not only reduce costs, but also improve product quality. Even if Xiaomi Group has production qualifications, it doesn't have much experience in building cars.

However, it is not realistic to completely master the production line in a short time, and it is not easy to gain a foothold in the field of automobile manufacturing. This drawback can be solved by OEM, of course, the product cost will also increase, and the product quality can not be monitored in real time.