Car welfare is actually a pit?
The netizen said that Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. began to provide preferential activities for employees to buy Tesla in March, when many employees were interested in starting Tesla Model 3. Later, I asked the relevant staff to know that there was a problem with the new energy battery module during the production of these Tesla discount cars. Tesla doesn't want these faulty cars, so he wants to return them to Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd.. Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. did not mention the battery problem after purchasing the faulty vehicle by itself, and directly introduced the so-called preferential activities to employees.
It is worth mentioning that the netizen also said that in order to encourage employees to buy these Tesla, Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. also set two restrictions:
1. Force managers to buy Tesla Model 3；; In the hands of the company;
Second, employees who have parking spaces in underground garages, whether managers or not, need to give up their parking spaces if they don't buy Model 3 in the hands of the company.
In fact, it is not the first time that Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. has been "exposed" to force employees to buy Tesla Model 3. In March of this year, a picture about "Preferential Policies for Employees of Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. to Buy Tesla Model 3" was circulated on the Internet. The picture shows that this is a batch of new Tesla Model 3 models provided by the company to encourage employees to promote new energy travel.
From the picture, the cheapest model is Model 3, with black exterior and black interior, 18 inch wheels. The employee preferential price of Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. is199,000 yuan, which is 37,600 yuan lower than the official guidance price of 236,600 yuan, equivalent to 8.5 fold. These internal vehicles are the upgraded version of Model 3 standard in 2020, that is, the lithium ferrous phosphate battery provided by Contemporary Amp Technology Co., Ltd., and the sales target is all employees of the company headquarters and wholly-owned subsidiaries. If the management of Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. buys a car, the management will compensate itself.
In response to this news, the relevant media contacted the relevant person in charge of Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. and got a response: "Regarding employees buying Tesla, the company encourages employees to buy electric vehicles at preferential prices, not only Tesla, but also most of the brands we supply. This activity has been going on for three years. " At the same time, the person in charge denied the enthusiastic discussion of "battery problem" and "compulsory purchase" by netizens.
Rumors stop with wise men.
Review the evolution history of Tesla battery suppliers. Before Tesla cooperated with Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd., Tesla and Panasonic maintained a cooperative relationship in the field of batteries. On 20 16, Tesla and Panasonic also established a solar cell joint venture company. However, due to the uncoordinated production capacity of both parties and different development concepts of the company, the cooperation between Tesla and Panasonic in China market finally ended on 20 19.
Subsequently, Tesla began to cooperate with Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd.. At the beginning of 2020, an announcement in Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. showed that Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. signed an agreement with Tesla and Tesla (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., stipulating that from July 1 day, 2020 to June 30, 2022, Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. will supply batteries for Model 3 produced by Tesla's Shanghai factory. In addition, it is reported that the battery of lithium ferrous phosphate Model Y that Tesla will launch in July will also be supplied by Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd.. Since then, Tesla has gradually become a major customer of Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd..
According to the research report released by Century Securities, in the first quarter of 20021,Tesla became the largest customer of Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. with 24% installed capacity. In order not to offend big customers, the batteries produced by Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. for Tesla had problems. Tesla sold the defective vehicles back to Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. and handed them over to Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. to deal with these defective vehicles. There seems to be nothing wrong with the whole logic.
However, if we study the whole event carefully, we will find that there are many loopholes in the whole event:
1. If there is something wrong with the battery of Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd., Tesla can directly return the battery to the manufacturer for return. Why build the whole vehicle at the cost of artificial materials and sell it back to Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd.? According to this logic, is there something wrong with Tesla's braking system, and Bosch has to pay for its products?
In addition, Tesla's current production and sales ratio is not balanced, and there is absolutely no need for Tesla to forcibly produce a problematic vehicle on the basis of battery problems. For Tesla, this is a thankless thing.
Two, the vehicle factory, there must be a certificate. How do vehicles with defects leave the factory? Even if it leaves the factory, it can't be licensed. It is worth mentioning that if the employees of Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. have problems using this batch of products, should they find Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. or Tesla for after-sales service?
All the above questions tell us that the authenticity of this message written by this netizen is open to question.
Write it at the end
A few hundred words of "breaking news" picture made contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. and Tesla fall into a crisis of public opinion at the same time. In this regard, we have to admit that the influence of rumors is terrible. However, careful analysis can reveal how low the credibility of the incident is. Aside from the above factors, if it is as the netizen said, a large number of "problem cars" will inevitably flow into the used car market after the one-year non-transferable restriction is lifted. Even if this information is concealed now, it will inevitably become an event in the future. I believe that neither Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. nor Tesla will make such "low-level mistakes".
So a lot of "online information" can be distinguished by identification. I hope that the majority of netizens will calmly analyze whether it is credible when they see similar news, instead of "exploding" directly on major social platforms.