Volkswagen To Gain A Competitive EV Advantage With A New Architecture It Developed With XPeng
Volkswagen To Gain A Competitive EV Advantage With A New Architecture It Developed With XPeng
A big step in the Xpeng-Volkswagen partnership.On Wednesday, Volkswagen AG (OTC:VWAGY) revealed that together with its Chinese EV partner, XPeng Inc (NYSE:XPEV), they have developed a new architecture for EVs. The EV pioneer Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) has been leading the market when it comes to architecture that reduces the wiring and components in an electric vehicle to lower the cost of its manufacturing, but with the help of XPeng, Volkswagen will finally be able to compete with Tesla on the cost efficiency front.
周三，大众汽车公司（场外交易代码：VWAGY）透露，他们与其中国电动汽车合作伙伴小鹏公司（纽约证券交易所代码：XPEV）一起开发了一种新的电动汽车架构。电动汽车先驱特斯拉公司（纳斯达克股票代码：TSLA）在减少电动汽车布线和组件以降低其制造成本的架构方面一直处于市场领先地位，但在小鹏的帮助下，大众汽车终于能够在成本效益方面与特斯拉竞争。
The new architecture will enable Volkswagen to offer more affordable EVs.
新架构将使大众汽车能够提供更实惠的电动汽车。
Through a central computer and a zonal structure, the architecture controls all electronics to achieve functionssuch as autonomous driving. By reducing the number of control units, the China Electrical Architecture (CEA) will help Volkswagen achieve a cost reduction target of 40% for its China-developed platform compared to its German-developed MEB platform. Volkswagen plans to use the CEA in locally developed Volkswagen-branded EVs from 2026.
该架构通过中央计算机和分区结构控制所有电子设备以实现自动驾驶等功能。通过减少控制单元的数量，中国电气架构（CEA）将帮助大众汽车实现其在中国开发的平台与德国开发的MEB平台相比降低40％的成本目标。大众汽车计划从2026年起在本地开发的大众品牌电动汽车中使用CEA。
A big step in the Xpeng-Volkswagen partnership.
Xpeng-Volkswagen合作关系迈出了一大步。
This is quite a milestone in Volkswagen's development of intelligent connected vehicles for the Chinese market, as the European automaker accelerates its "In China, for China" strategy. When Volkswagen forged a partnership with XPeng last year by buying 4.99% of XPeng, they planned to jointly launch two Volkswagen-branded EV models by 2026, using XPeng's G9 Edward platform. By joining forces, XPeng and Volkswagen expected to reduce costs and slash development time by 30%.
这是大众汽车为中国市场开发智能网联汽车的一个重要里程碑，因为这家欧洲汽车制造商正在加快其 “在中国，为中国” 的战略。去年，当大众汽车通过收购小鹏4.99％的股份与小鹏建立合作伙伴关系时，他们计划使用小鹏的G9 Edward平台在2026年之前共同推出两款大众汽车品牌的电动汽车车型。通过联手，小鹏和大众汽车有望降低成本并将开发时间缩短30％。
Lowering the cost of its EV-making by 40% will also help Volkswagen in its efforts to regain its status in China as back in 2022, it got dethroned as the best-selling brand by local EV maker who is also giving Tesla a headache, BYD Company Limited (OTC:BYDDY).
将电动汽车制造成本降低40％也将有助于大众汽车努力恢复其在中国的地位。早在2022年，大众汽车就被本土电动汽车制造商比亚迪有限公司（场外交易代码：BYDDY）取代了最畅销品牌的地位，这也让特斯拉感到头疼。
BYD is rapidly expanding its offerings, challenging Tesla and Jeep at the same time.
比亚迪正在迅速扩大其产品范围，同时挑战特斯拉和吉普。
To compete across market segments, BYD unveiled three new cars for its Fang Cheng Bao brand on Tuesday. BYD launched the Fang Cheng Bao brand last summer to focus on personalized need of consumers, especially for off-road and sports vehicles. With the new vehicles, namely an off-road SUV, an SUV forcity driving and a sports car, it is going both against Tesla on the premium end of the market as well as Jeep in the off-road segment. Therefore, despite Volkswagen's efforts, and the fact the first of the two cars it will develop with XPeng will be an SUV to join this race, Volkswagen is in for a tough EV race.
为了跨细分市场竞争，比亚迪周二为其方程宝品牌推出了三款新车。比亚迪去年夏天推出了方成宝品牌，专注于消费者的个性化需求，尤其是越野车和运动车的需求。有了这些新车，即越野SUV、用于城市驾驶的SUV和跑车，它既在高端市场上对抗特斯拉，在越野领域也与吉普对抗。因此，尽管大众汽车做出了努力，而且事实上它将与小鹏合作开发的两款汽车中的第一辆将是参加这场竞赛的SUV，但大众汽车仍将面临一场艰难的电动汽车竞赛。
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