(Original title: Tencent owns a 5% Tesla stake and intends to deploy automatic driving outlets?)
Zhang Bowen
Tencent has become the fifth largest shareholder of Tesla after holding 5% Tesla equity. Tesla’s documents submitted to the U.S. Securities Exchange revealed the details of this holding.
Currently, in Tesla's shares, except for Tencent, the top four shareholders are Elon Musk's 21%, Fidelity Investment's 14%, Baillie Gifford's 8.2% and T. Rowe Price's 7.3%.
However, according to current news, Tencent’s holding of shares is non-active, which means that Tencent will not actively participate in Tesla’s operations.
Now Tesla’s biggest task is to complete the mass production of the entry model Model 3, but Tesla’s current production capacity is totally incapable of coping with the over 400,000 orders that Model 3 has released. Having seen Tesla's various types of bouncing on the Model S and Model X from 2012 to 2016, many analysts have expressed unfavorable outlook for Tesla's future for some time, in January 2017. In the report released on the 3rd, Barclays Bank analyst Adam Jonas made it clear that we expect Tesla to not deliver a Model 3 this year.
Mass production of Model 3 means that Tesla will have a great demand for battery output. Last year, Tesla formally launched its own GigaFactory, the world's largest single cell plant, to produce batteries and Power Wall charging wall in the future. . However, at the opening of the factory, the GigaFactory actually completed only 14%. Tesla apparently also plans to build the second and third GigaFactory separately in Europe and Asia in response to a large number of orders for pure electric vehicles.
However, in the final analysis, the construction of factories still requires a lot of money. At this time, Tencent, as the fifth largest shareholder, shares Tesla. On the one hand, it expressed Tencent’s optimism for Tesla. On the other hand, if Tencent actively involved After Tesla’s operations, Tesla’s new moves in the Chinese market are also worth looking forward to.
Since 2014, Tencent has been actively deploying in the automotive sector. FMC, a Chinese automobile startup co-invested by Tencent and Foxconn, announced at the end of January 2017 that it plans to invest 11.6 billion yuan to build a high-end smart electric vehicle production plant in Nanjing. A self-driving electric car will be released by 2020.
This action can also allow an outsider to snoop out, and Tencent is likely to take the auto-pilot that has emerged in the past two years as an important entry into the automobile field. As a technology company, even if it is financially prosperous, it is less than the manufacturing capabilities of traditional car manufacturers. However, in the field of automated driving, Tencent's layout on artificial intelligence can have a better cooperation space with automakers in two important parts of auto-driving perception and decision-making.
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