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比亚迪将推出更多豪华车型,进军高端市场

比亚迪将推出更多豪华车型,进军高端市场

CHRISTIAAN HETZNER 2024-02-23
比亚迪的豪华汽车仰望U8或许不符合西方消费者的品味,但它的成功激发了比亚迪的欲望。

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中国公司比亚迪(BYD)公布了新长期策略,以刺激销售和利润以及提振低迷的股价,包括在豪华电动汽车市场占据“领先地位”的计划。

沃伦·巴菲特投资的比亚迪在上个季度的销量首次超越特斯拉(Tesla),该公司上周日在一份监管申报文件中表示,从今年开始,公司将通过三个主要品牌,推出一系列新高档电动汽车和插电式混合动力车,这些汽车在中国统称为新能源汽车。

以位于深圳的比亚迪为首,中国涌现出一批电动汽车公司,埃隆·马斯克警告,这些公司将消灭“西方竞争对手,因为它们有激进的增长策略,有繁荣的国内电动汽车市场,有低成本劳动力,还有庞大的供应链,覆盖了从锂精炼到电池生产的各个环节。

比亚迪在公告文件中表示:“高端豪华品牌车型的热销显著增强公司盈利水平的同时,极大提升了公司的品牌形象。”

虽然比亚迪没有透露具体细节,但将高端品牌仰望U8的成功作为证据。比亚迪预计,可像坦克一样原地360度旋转的这款SUV汽车,在1月连续两个月蝉联百万级(140,000美元)新能源SUV销量第一。

新车上市在初期通常需要投入大量财务资源,因为公司需要为经销商渠道提供足够的库存,以满足首批客户的需求。扩大生产规模同样需要投入资源,例如比亚迪在匈牙利已经开始建设其在欧洲的首座汽车工厂。但比亚迪表示,其增长机会不会成为公司回购股份的障碍,作为中国领先的汽车厂商,比亚迪希望通过回购恢复投资者信心。

庞大的研发团队支持产品攻势

比亚迪发布这份公告的同时,西方国家的大多数传统汽车厂商却在缩小电动汽车计划,或至少推迟相关计划。

就连特斯拉也已经急踩刹车,为了抓住人工智能繁荣的东风,它更愿意谈论人形机器人项目的未来前景。对于特斯拉的核心汽车业务,马斯克推迟了在墨西哥建设汽车制造工厂的计划,并悄然放弃了之前在12月底公布特斯拉电动汽车工厂新厂址的打算。

相比之下,比亚迪既没有任何放慢脚步的迹象,也没有追随马斯克从汽车转向AI和机器人等更新潮的趋势。为了支持其新产品攻势,比亚迪的研发部门竟然有90,000名工程师;这接近特斯拉全球员工人数的三分之二。

但在比亚迪在电动汽车市场攻城略地的同时,过去12个月其股价却不断下跌。从对埃隆·马斯克发起价格战的担忧,到股民们对中国股票的热情降温等因素,导致比亚迪股价自去年同期以来暴跌了35%。比亚迪的市值从第三大最有价值的汽车公司,仅次于特斯拉和丰田汽车(Toyota),下降到第七位。

因此,比亚迪正在考虑进行第二次股份回购,根据当前的市场环境,回购将是“合理和可行的”。2022年6月,比亚迪回购了551万股。

这应该会令巴菲特等投资者感到开心。他的伯克希尔哈撒韦(Berkshire Hathaway )投资控股公司持有比亚迪近十分之一的股份。(财富中文网)

翻译:刘进龙

审校:汪皓

中国公司比亚迪(BYD)公布了新长期策略,以刺激销售和利润以及提振低迷的股价,包括在豪华电动汽车市场占据“领先地位”的计划。

沃伦·巴菲特投资的比亚迪在上个季度的销量首次超越特斯拉(Tesla),该公司上周日在一份监管申报文件中表示,从今年开始,公司将通过三个主要品牌,推出一系列新高档电动汽车和插电式混合动力车,这些汽车在中国统称为新能源汽车。

以位于深圳的比亚迪为首,中国涌现出一批电动汽车公司,埃隆·马斯克警告,这些公司将消灭“西方竞争对手,因为它们有激进的增长策略,有繁荣的国内电动汽车市场,有低成本劳动力,还有庞大的供应链,覆盖了从锂精炼到电池生产的各个环节。

比亚迪在公告文件中表示:“高端豪华品牌车型的热销显著增强公司盈利水平的同时,极大提升了公司的品牌形象。”

虽然比亚迪没有透露具体细节,但将高端品牌仰望U8的成功作为证据。比亚迪预计,可像坦克一样原地360度旋转的这款SUV汽车,在1月连续两个月蝉联百万级(140,000美元)新能源SUV销量第一。

新车上市在初期通常需要投入大量财务资源,因为公司需要为经销商渠道提供足够的库存,以满足首批客户的需求。扩大生产规模同样需要投入资源,例如比亚迪在匈牙利已经开始建设其在欧洲的首座汽车工厂。但比亚迪表示,其增长机会不会成为公司回购股份的障碍,作为中国领先的汽车厂商,比亚迪希望通过回购恢复投资者信心。

庞大的研发团队支持产品攻势

比亚迪发布这份公告的同时,西方国家的大多数传统汽车厂商却在缩小电动汽车计划,或至少推迟相关计划。

就连特斯拉也已经急踩刹车,为了抓住人工智能繁荣的东风,它更愿意谈论人形机器人项目的未来前景。对于特斯拉的核心汽车业务,马斯克推迟了在墨西哥建设汽车制造工厂的计划,并悄然放弃了之前在12月底公布特斯拉电动汽车工厂新厂址的打算。

相比之下,比亚迪既没有任何放慢脚步的迹象,也没有追随马斯克从汽车转向AI和机器人等更新潮的趋势。为了支持其新产品攻势,比亚迪的研发部门竟然有90,000名工程师;这接近特斯拉全球员工人数的三分之二。

但在比亚迪在电动汽车市场攻城略地的同时,过去12个月其股价却不断下跌。从对埃隆·马斯克发起价格战的担忧,到股民们对中国股票的热情降温等因素,导致比亚迪股价自去年同期以来暴跌了35%。比亚迪的市值从第三大最有价值的汽车公司,仅次于特斯拉和丰田汽车(Toyota),下降到第七位。

因此,比亚迪正在考虑进行第二次股份回购,根据当前的市场环境,回购将是“合理和可行的”。2022年6月,比亚迪回购了551万股。

这应该会令巴菲特等投资者感到开心。他的伯克希尔哈撒韦(Berkshire Hathaway )投资控股公司持有比亚迪近十分之一的股份。(财富中文网)

翻译:刘进龙

审校:汪皓

China’s BYD outlined a new long-term strategy to boost sales and profits along with its sagging stock price, including plans to take a “leading position” in the luxury EV market.

Fresh from eclipsing Tesla in sales for the first time last quarter, the Warren Buffett-backed carmaker said in a regulatory filing on Sunday it would begin offering a raft of new premium priced EVs and plug-in hybrids—collectively classified as New Energy Vehicles (NEVs) in China—across three main brands starting this year.

The Shenzhen-based carmaker leads a new phalanx of Chinese EV upstarts Elon Musk has warned can ‘demolish‘ their western competitors thanks to their aggressive growth, a booming domestic EV market, low-cost labor and vast supply chain for lithium refining and battery cell production.

“The hot sales of high-end luxury brand models have significantly enhanced the company’s profitability and greatly enhanced brand image,” BYD said in the statement.

The company chose to be light on the specifics, but it cited as evidence the success of its upscale Yangwang U8. BYD expects the SUV, which is capable of turning a full 360 degrees on the spot like a tank, will be China’s best-selling vehicle in the segment for 1 million-plus RMB ($140,000) EVs in January for the second month running.

Typically new launches act as a drain on financial resources initially, as the dealer pipeline has to be filled with enough inventory to meet demand from the first wave of customers. The same goes for expanding a company’s production footprint, as BYD is doing in Hungary, where it has begun building its first car plant in Europe. BYD however said its growth plans would not prove an impediment to buying back its own shares, as China’s leading carmaker seeks to restore investor confidence.

Enormous R&D staff to power product offensive

The announcement comes as most traditional carmakers in the West are scaling back their EV ambitions or at least pushing them further into the future.

Even Tesla has hit the brakes, preferring instead to talk up the prospects of its humanoid robotics program in order to capitalize on the boom in artificial intelligence. When it comes to its core car business, Musk delayed construction of his vehicle manufacturing plant in Mexico and quietly buried previous aspirations to announce the next site of a new Tesla EV factory by the end of December.

By comparison, BYD shows neither signs of slowing down nor is it tempted to follow Musk by pivoting away from cars to tout sexier trends like AI and robotics. To fuel the new product offensive, the Chinese carmaker has a staggering 90,000 engineers in research and development on its payroll; that’s nearly two-thirds of Tesla’s entire global workforce.

Even as BYD has torn up the EV market, though, its shares have flopped over the past 12 months. Everything from concerns over Elon Musk’s price war combined with waning enthusiasm to own Chinese shares have seen the stock plummet 35% since this time last year. As a result it has dropped from third most valuable carmaker by market cap, behind Tesla and Toyota, to now just seventh.

That’s why the company is considering a second stock buyback that would be “reasonable and feasible”, based on prevailing market conditions, after previously repurchasing 5.51 million shares by June 2022.

This should delight investors like Buffett. His Berkshire Hathaway investment holding owns nearly a tenth of the company.

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