New energy ushered in a wave of price cuts? Tesla finally lost the case? Weimar has been frozen for another 4 billion shares.

E week is a big event, and there are new melons every week. On Monday, benefiting from the global price correction of new energy raw materials and the improvement of enterprise cost control and supply chain management capabilities, Chery New Energy officially announced that it would adjust the official guide price of its models to 9000 yuan.

Since Tesla set up the legal department, it seems that he hasn't lost the battle. However, just this week, Mr. Han, the litigant of Tesla's "one refund and three compensations" case, wrote in his personal Weibo that the Beijing Higher People's Court ruled that Tesla's retrial application was rejected according to law, and the case that lasted for more than three years finally came to a conclusion.

Weimar came like a wolf. There will be investment for a while and negative for a while. What will happen in the end can only be guessed by the outside world. Recently, Weimar Automobile Technology Group Co., Ltd. added a piece of information about the stock right freeze. The company whose equity is executed is Weimar Automobile Manufacturing Wenzhou Co., Ltd., and the amount of equity freeze is about 4.04 billion yuan. The freezing period is from March 4, 2023 to March 3, 2026.

Chery New Energy takes the lead in price reduction.

Last year, due to the rising raw materials of power batteries, various new energy vehicles generally rose. Now, with the correction of global new energy raw material prices, Chery New Energy Automobile announced that it will officially adjust the official guide price of its models from 0: 00 on March 27, 2023, with a maximum correction of 9000 yuan.

Specifically, the price adjustment models involved in the price reduction of Chery New Energy Vehicle include Chery QQ Ice Cream, Chery Little Ant and Chery Unbounded Pro, among which the three models of QQ Ice Cream are lowered by 4,000 yuan, and the adjusted price is 35,900-45,900 yuan; Four small ants are reduced by 4000-9000 yuan, and the adjusted price is 64999-94000 yuan; Five models of Unbounded Pro are reduced by 5,000 yuan, and the adjusted price is 84,900-6.5438+0.10.09 million yuan.

According to the data, up to now, the average price of battery-grade lithium carbonate is 277,500 yuan/ton. Compared with the peak of nearly 600,000 yuan/ton in mid-2022 10, the downward trend of raw material prices is obvious.

However, Chery's new energy price reduction models are mainly small cars. This "substantial" price reduction will greatly reduce the gross profit of bicycles. For this reason, it is widely speculated that the reason why Chery's new energy vehicles take the initiative to cut prices is mainly due to the consideration of the opportunity market.

It is understood that in February, 2023, the sales volume of QQ ice cream was 3 134, the number of small ants was 2 128, while Arrizo e was 192, unbounded Pro was 72, and there were only two big ants.

QQ ice cream and ant market, which bear the heavy responsibility of sales, perform generally, while unbounded Pro, which has high hopes, has not been highly recognized by the market. Perhaps, the price reduction of raw materials is just a whitewash package of Chery's new energy price reduction, and its core is to reduce prices for the market.

Tesla lost the case and sued again?

Mr. Han, the owner of 20 19, spent 379,700 yuan on a second-hand car with the model S P85 in Tesla official website. Later, some minor problems will always be found in the process of using the car. The owner found that the C-pillar and the rear fender of the car were cut and welded through the inspection of a third-party organization. Mr. Han believes that this fault of the car will directly threaten life safety and put forward a request for returning the car, but it was rejected. Subsequently, the owner of the car, Mr. Han, decided to sue Tesla and solve the matter through legal channels.

Tesla once said that in the process of using the vehicle by the original owner, the vehicle had a very minor collision accident when it changed lanes on 20 191October 8. According to the site photos, damage assessment agreement, accident confirmation and maintenance list, it can be proved that the accident only damaged the left rear fender, the edge of the rear bumper and the hub surface of the car body, and did not harm the safety structure of the vehicle at all, and did not constitute a major accident or structural damage;

Tesla was unaware of the accident and had no intention of fraud. Moreover, there was no major accident in the vehicle involved, and there was no structural damage caused by replacing the fender. Tesla did not commit any fraud when selling vehicles, and the vehicles delivered to Mr. Han fully met the sales promise of "no major accidents and boiling water". Mr. Han's claim has no factual and legal basis and should be completely rejected.

Under normal circumstances, a serious accident occurs in the vehicle, and the official conceals the sales volume, which in itself meets the conditions of returning one and losing three. The reply given by Tesla is obviously suspected of avoiding the heavy weight.

From June 5438 to February 2020, the case was pronounced in the first instance. According to the judgment issued by the owner, the result of the first trial was that Tesla Company purchased fraud and sentenced it to one refund and three compensations. That is, the car purchase contract was terminated, and Tesla refunded the car purchase price of 379,700 yuan, and compensated 1 139438+0 million yuan.

The court said in the judgment that the maintenance of the vehicles involved did involve large-scale cutting and welding. This kind of repair method and degree will inevitably have an important impact on consumers' willingness to buy a car, and Tesla only told Mr. Han that "there is no structural damage to the vehicle", which is not enough to achieve the due degree of information disclosure. Tesla meets the objective requirements of fraud, whether it is positive or negative.

Regarding whether there is fraud intention in Tesla, it can be seen from the facts of this case that Tesla knows or should know about the accident and maintenance of the vehicle involved, and it has subjective conditions for fraud. In summary, Tesla constitutes fraud.

Subsequently, Tesla began to appeal many times, but the reason given was that the vehicle in this incident was very different from the traditional model. Finding this reason is as wonderful as the reason given by hiding information.

Although the case of "one refund and three compensations" has come to an end, the lawsuit between the owner Mr. Han and Tesla has not completely ended. On the one hand, the owner claims for the use and maintenance of the scooter in the lawsuit; On the other hand, there are also two reputation disputes with Tesla.

"Live like an animal"

Whether Weimar can "live like an animal" is perhaps the most anticipated part of Weimar's farce. There are two pieces of news from Weimar recently. One is that Weimar issued a notice of customer service center on March 25th. The other is to freeze the equity of 4.04 billion yuan.

For users, it may have been a long time since they received any official services from Weimar, especially after-sales services such as maintenance. In this regard, Weimar's customer service center notice is an unreliable reassurance for everyone.

According to the notice, Weimar authorized Shanghai Li Xinye Smart Car Service (Group) Co., Ltd. to be responsible for purchasing and selling spare parts needed by Weimar, establishing after-sales service network and developing smart car networking service.

In fact, Weimar has contacted many suppliers and distributors who have defaulted on payment before. In the short term, it may be difficult for Bai Piao parts to "owe" again.

As for suppliers, only small suppliers are willing to continue to cooperate, but to pay first, they need to re-sign the purchase contract and payment method. Large suppliers refused to cooperate directly and sued for rights protection through legal proceedings, such as Zhejiang Mingbo and Qiao. They realized the problem of travel funds of Weimar Automobile and stopped cooperation in June 2022.

Therefore, Weimar subcontracted profitable after-sales service to other companies. However, for users, at least Weimar in hand can be repaired after sale.

Subcontracting, authorizing and setting up a new company may be what Weimar will do. Recently, Weimar added freezing information, and the amount of frozen shares reached 4.04 billion yuan. The freezing period is from March 4, 2023 to March 3, 2026, and the enforcement court is Shanghai Financial Court.

As for the so-called blood return financing, it did not arrive on time. As a result, Weimar fell into a tight capital chain in February, and was exposed to negative news, including all employees leaving without pay, factory closures, shop closures, arrears in rent and property fees for the headquarters building, etc.

Even at the beginning of March, Weimar released the good news of comprehensive resumption of work and production, which was also regarded by the outside world as a response to the abnormal news of Weimar automobile or operation released by Qingpu District Consumer Protection Committee.

This article is from Highway 149, written by Che Yi, and the copyright belongs to the author. Please contact the author in any form. The content only represents the author's point of view and has nothing to do with the car reform.