米国の電気自動車メーカーLucidは、中国市場への参入の可能性を模索しています, ある幹部によると
Lucid has a team in China exploring the viability of entering the market, though there’s no specific timeline yet.
Lucid Motors(ルーシッドモーターズ) (ナスダック: LCIDの) 中国での自動車販売を模索している, 米国の電気自動車が (電気自動車) スタートアップは以前、業界のベテランを雇ってこの試みに備えた.
“Every car manufacturer has to look very deeply or has already looked into China. It’s the world’s largest car market. It’s going to be likely the world’s largest and fastest adopting EV market as we can see,” Lucid chief engineer Eric Bach said in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday at the IAA Munich auto show in Germany.
“It’s something we are exploring, we are investing in,” Bach said.
If Lucid does expand into China, the US company would be entering one of the world’s most competitive EV markets, the CNBC report noted, adding that Lucid would be competing with a host of car companies such as BYD (OTCMKTSの: ビディ), 仁尾 (ニューヨーク証券取引所: ニオ), and US giant Tesla (ナスダック: ティッカー).
“We haven’t cited a market entry date yet because we just need to get it right,” Bach said, 追加, “If you enter China on the wrong terms, you can make a lot of mistakes.”
Bach said Lucid has a team in China exploring the viability of entering the market.
“We need to hone in, how are we going to enter? What’s the pricing strategy? What’s going to be our manufacturing strategy?” He said.
“So we’re looking at the whole gamut of what we should be doing as a young manufacturer, and we’ll get it right.”
Lucid was co-founded in 2007 by Bernard Tse, former vice president and director of Tesla, and Sam Weng, a former Oracle executive. In December 2016, Lucid’s first production EV, the Lucid Air, was launched.
7月に 2021, Lucid went public on the Nasdaq through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) and has a current market capitalization of $14 十億.
6月に 7, Chinese media outlet Jiemian reported that Zhu Jiang, a former executive at Nio, Ford (ニューヨーク証券取引所: F), and Baidu’s (ナスダック: BIDU) car-making unit Jidu Auto, has joined Lucid to head up its China operations.
Lucid is just starting to prepare for its entry into China, Zhu told Jiemian.
China is the world’s largest auto market, with annual sales of around 20 million vehicles over the past few years. The country has also become the world’s largest market for new energy vehicles (新エネルギー車), which are contributing more than 30 percent of monthly car sales.
In the January-August period, China’s retail sales of passenger cars totaled 13.199 ミリオンユニット, 上 2 前年比, according to preliminary data released yesterday by the China Passenger Car Association.
1月から8月まで, retail sales of passenger NEVs in China were 4,424,000 単位, 上 36 前年比, 貢献 33.52 percent of all vehicle sales.
China’s open and competitive market is a very important basis for the rapid increase in NEV penetration, ウィリアム・リー, 始祖, chairman and CEO of Nio, said yesterday in a speech at the World NEVs Congress in Munich.