Recently, at the launching ceremony of Didi's first shared travel network car D 1, the concept network car D 1 named "Travel New Species" was launched. According to reports, D 1 has the size of A-class cars, the wheelbase of B-class cars, the rear row space of C-class cars, and the convenience and safety of getting on and off MPV. At the same time, Xia Huaxia, vice president of Meituan, said at the previous 2020 World Intelligent Networked Automobile Conference that Meituan plans to continue to expand the scale of self-driving delivery vehicles in the future.

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①: Didi releases D 1 to change the existing travel structure and realize the dream of "operator" charging by mileage: Didi D 1, which Didi calls "a new species of travel", is a special car with a length of 4.4 meters and a wheelbase of more than 2.8 meters. The back row provides an entertainment screen for passengers, and passengers can sing in the back seat. It can be said that such a car is extremely friendly to both passengers and drivers. In addition, the addition of Internet technology also enables Didi to design more predicted passenger experiences on D 1. However, such cars are not for sale, but Didi's "own products".

Of course, owning your own "exclusive vehicle" is just one of Didi's dreams. In fact, Didi has bigger ambitions. It is understood that D 1 is not paid according to the whole vehicle, but according to the kilometer. This means that Didi can become a "shared field travel operator" through the charging mode of D 1. For Didi, this is not only a further step to challenge the status of traditional operators, but also gives Didi a new initiative in pricing in the field of shared travel.

2. Meituan is making every effort to expand the scale of unmanned distribution and will continue to use data sharing for travel in the future. For Didi, the biggest competitor Meituan fights with Didi in the field of travel, but in its own field, Meituan has taken a bigger step. According to the vice president of Meituan, the automatic mileage of Meituan's self-driving delivery vehicles in Shunyi District exceeded 6,543.8+10,000 kilometers, the real order volume exceeded 6,543.8+10,000 times, and the continuous delivery days reached 272 days. Meituan plans to continue to expand the scale of self-driving delivery vehicles in the future, and deploy 1 0,000 self-driving delivery vehicles in Shunyi District within three years to realize all-weather operation in the whole region.

In fact, at present, the unmanned delivery vehicle of Meituan still belongs to the category of "special car" and can only be completed in a limited area. However, for Meituan, it has a large amount of data on driverless technology, and can share data and cooperation with companies such as Wenyuan Star, an autonomous driving startup that also participates in the conference, which is more conducive to the development of its own driverless technology. In this respect, we can see that the US Mission is actually ahead of Didi. Once the future urban infrastructure is formed and tickets can be obtained in the shared travel field, then we can see the comprehensive challenge of Meituan's driverless technology to Didi in the shared travel field.

③: Didi's D 1 was realized by BYD. For the brand, this market is a cake that can't be put down: for Didi, this time D 1? The launch actually dragged down BYD's happiness. BYD is responsible for the design and landing to realize Didi's dream. However, as early as 20 15, Didi and BYD jointly established Shenzhen Didi New Energy Car Rental Co., Ltd., in which BYD holds 40% and Didi holds 60%. Its business includes new energy electric taxi enterprise investment, automobile sales and related after-sales service, automobile rental and operation, and urban taxi operation. As a leading enterprise in electric vehicles, BYD deserves its name.

Now everyone knows that shared travel must be the mainstream and an important consumer, even Didi can't be the only one. It's not just the US Mission that comes to compete with Didi, but also various brand OEMs. Many domestic automobile companies, including GAC, SAIC, BAIC, FAW and Dongfeng, have invested in their own shared travel companies. Although it is not a threat to Didi in scale and system, both research and development and data have unique advantages over Didi and Meituan. These brands will not give up this market, this cake is too big.

MiVo garage summary:

On the one hand, all the head resources are betting on sharing travel, on the other hand, the number of our private cars is still growing. The data shows that the number of private cars in Beijing has increased by 9.7 times in the past 20 years, but the total length of urban roads has only increased by 1.9 times. It is impossible to expand the city scale in the future, but the number of private cars is still increasing at the level of 20 million every year, so we believe that the city will only become more and more congested. But again, the more traffic jams, the more fragrant shared travel will be.

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