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2024
Foreign auto manufacturers are rapidly losing market share in China
Toyota, Honda and Nissan closed production in China, as no one needs their cars there
Decline in sales of German car brands
Continued decline in Hyundai and GM JV sales
The growing popularity of heavy trucks on gas
Falling natural prices gas and the prospect of a glut in the coming years are driving sales of trucks and ships running on the fuel, accelerating the long-term shift away from oil in the country that is its largest importer.
One in three new heavy trucks sold in China in April 2024 are powered by gas.
Supercooled fuel is also one of the main alternatives for trucking.
2023
Annual auto software sales in China exceed $9.2 billion
The vehicle software market in China is valued at more than 65 billion yuan at the end of 2023, or about $9.24 billion at the exchange rate as of September 24, 2024. This is 30% of the total volume of the software industry in the PRC. Such data are reflected in the materials of the Chinese Automobile Engineering Research Institute and the Chinese Economic Information Service (CEIS), published on September 20, 2024.
The automotive industry is actively developing in China. In particular, in August 2024, electric cars, including hybrid models, overtook cars with internal combustion engines in terms of sales in China for the first time in history. Local market participants pay great attention to the development of related solutions, including software and services.
 | The first part of the development of the automotive industry is electrification. Now it is time to move to the second part, which will involve smart technologies, and the core will be software, operating systems and automotive chips, "said Xu Haidong, deputy chief engineer of the Chinese Association of Automakers. |  |
According to him, automotive software can accurately control all components of the vehicle, including its onboard equipment, behavior on the road and information exchange. It is noted that the level of localization of automotive chips is growing, as enterprises such as Huawei are making significant progress in creating products for the transport industry. The indicator of localization of power semiconductors in the PRC, in particular, rose to 15% -20%. These advances reduce reliance on foreign suppliers and increase the overall sustainability of the industry. The gross value of the entire manufacturing chain of the Chinese automotive sector provides approximately 10% of the country's GDP[1]
The first place in the world in the number of cars sold - 30.1 million units
China produced a record 30 million cars, exports thanks to Russia grew by 58%
China's car production will reach a record high in 2023, thanks to rising exports of electric vehicles and supplies to Russia that have filled the void created by the departure of Western manufacturers. China produced a record 30 million cars in 2023.
Exports rose 58% to 4.91 million units.
In China, police put huge GPS suckers on cars that violated parking rules. Photo
At the end of October 2023, it became known about an unusual way to deal with parking violations in China. The police put huge GPS suction cups on the car.
At the moment, it is not known how widespread this practice is, since information about this method was only recently found in the Chinese service Douyin (analogue of TikTok).
The suction cup is attached to the driver's door of the car and tied with a wire to the side mirror of the rear view. The ability to remove the suction cup appears only after paying the fine.
The Chinese authorities are trying in this way to shame a person so that he does not further violate the rules. In addition to the very fact of having a nipple, the inscriptions on the suction cup are added to shame, which indicate that the driver does not know how to park. It is believed that such a strategy could be effective in some Asian regions, and is unlikely to work, for example, in the United States. This is due to the different roles of the concept of shame in culture.
There is a timer on the suction cup, which allows the authorities to increase the amount of the fine for each day of non-payment. Moreover, in case of malicious non-payment, the authorities will be able to find the offender using a GPS tracker located in the suction cup.
As of the end of 2022, 319 million cars were registered in China. In just one year, 29 million Chinese citizens received a driving permit. In more than 80 cities in China, the total fleet exceeds 1 million cars. In this sense, the invention of new ways to combat improper parking is a logical reaction to the constant increase in the number of cars and drivers in urban spaces. For example, in 2022, the Chinese authorities began sending SMS alerts to violators, allowing drivers to correct their mistake in 10 minutes. If the offender leaves the place in the first five minutes after fixing on the video camera, the picture will be removed and the violation will not be counted. After five minutes, the driver receives a letter with a notification if he does not have time to correct the error - the fine is issued automatically.[2]
BYD beats VW - long-term leader in China market for the first time
Demand for electric vehicles in China has provided domestic automakers with what appears to be an undeniable and irreversible superiority over all foreign competitors in the world's largest auto market
Led by BYD, local companies account for 50% of July 2023 sales.
That growth comes at the expense of old German, American and Japanese automakers, from Volkswagen AG to Ford Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp.
Analysts at UBS AG warned earlier this month that Western carmakers could lose a fifth of their share of the global market as more affordable Chinese electric vehicles emerge.
Trucks without drivers began to drive on public roads in China
In mid-June 2023, TuSimple, which develops autonomous trucks, launched unmanned tractors on public roads. It is noteworthy that in the cabins of cars drivers for safety net were absent in principle. The company says that this is the first test of this kind in the Celestial Empire. Read more here.
Passenger car sales collapse by 37.9% to 1.3 million and recovery
Passenger car sales in China declined 37.9% year-on-year in January to 1.3 million units, the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) said.
2022: Opening of the first tracks for unmanned vehicles
On November 7, 2022, the first batch of expressways for autonomous driving was officially opened in China.
to data According to the city's transport commission, a Shanghai 21.5 km section of the road on the G1503 Ring Expressway and a 19.5 km section on the G2-Shanhai Expressway Beijing were intended for, autonomous driving representatives of the Shanghai Municipal Transport Commission said at a forum on intelligent transport. PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
By November 2022, 926 test roads for autonomous driving were opened in Shanghai with 15 thousand test scenarios, which is one of the best indicators in the PRC. The city is prepared to test and apply intelligent connected vehicles to better support demonstration operations and commercial autonomous driving launches.
| | Self-driving cars should not be perfect. They are required to be better than bad drivers. Remember this the next time someone will rebuild in front of you, crossing three lanes to turn right! You never know what's good or bad. So, shorthand arose from bad handwriting, reliability theory - from breakdowns and failures of mashiu, "said Bojing Liu, head of the department of the Shanghai Municipal Transport Commission. | |
In October 2022, the Shanghai government also introduced rules for the implementation of demonstration operations of smart connected cars. According to the rules, if the driver is driving the car, then he will be responsible in the event of an accident. If the car is completely deprived of the driver, the owner of the vehicle will be responsible. If the cause of the accident was a defect, the owner of the car may demand compensation from the manufacturer.[3]
2020: Car sales crash due to COVID-19 pandemic
In China, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in February 2020, car sales fell by 79% compared to the same period last year, in March - by 49%.
2019
One in three cars in the world produced in China
173 cars per 1,000 people
Cars per 1 thousand people (World Bank, June 2019):
- UNITED STATES: 837
- Australia: 747
- Italy: 695
- Canada: 670
- Japan: 591
- Germany: 589
- Britain: 579
- France: 569
- Malaysia: 433
- Russia: 373
- Brazil: 350
- Mexico: 297
- Saudi Arabia: 209
- Turkey: 199
- Iran: 178
- SOUTH AFRICA: 174
- China: 173
- Indonesia: 87
- Nigeria: 64
- India: 22
2018
China is in 1st place in the world in terms of the number of cars sold. Schedule
China is starting to spy on drivers. Cars will be equipped with RFID tags
On July 1, 2018, a program to create a nationwide system for electronic identification of cars will start in China. Within its framework, the machines will be equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips when registered. At first, chipping will be voluntary, but from January 2019, RFID tags in new cars will become mandatory.
Radio frequency tags are planned to be attached to windshields. RFID readers installed on the roads of the PRC will identify passing cars and transmit information to the Ministry of Public Security of China. This became known from the publication of The Wall Street Journal of June 13, 2018.
One of the interlocutors of the publication, familiar with the details of the plan, said that the system in the PRC will register license plates and the color of cars. Another source added that unlike satellite global positioning systems (GPS) in China, there will be no constant tracking of the location of the machines.
The PRC authorities assure that the RFID-based car identification system will increase public safety and improve the situation with traffic jams. However, human rights activists say the introduction of such a system in China, the world's largest automotive market, will give authorities new tools to spy on the country's residents, in addition to existing means of identification using surveillance cameras and facial recognition technologies.
Opponents of the innovation insist that monitoring the level of traffic congestion can be carried out using sensors that allow counting the number of cars. In addition, the Chinese authorities are already tracking cars using an extensive network of video cameras that record machine license plates.
However, other experts say that RFID technology has advantages. In particular, it will allow you to identify the car even in conditions of poor visibility, for example, in fog, or when replacing numbers with fake ones. In some areas of China where entry transport is being sought for environmental reasons, the use of fake numbers is a common problem.[4]
Using Acoustic Cameras to Recognize Claxons
In April 2018, it became known about the massive appearance of acoustic cameras on Chinese roads, which recognize the sound signal of cars. Violators are fined.
According to a news publication at the end of 2017, the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau completed pilot tests of acoustic cameras that recognize buzzing car owners in the general urban flow, after which 20 such devices were deployed in the capital. By April 2018, such equipment was installed in 40 cities, including Shenzhen.
Acoustic cameras placed near schools and hospitals in Beijing are equipped with an array of 32 microphones and image sensors that record video in HD format. After recognizing the signalling car, the camera records a 2-second video in which the violating vehicle is visible. The machine number is also photographed. It is noted that the accuracy of identifying the sound of the klaxon by the system on the street is from 92% to 95%.
These materials then go to the police, where fine orders are issued if the unjustified use of the car horn is confirmed. For such a violation in the Celestial Empire is fined $16.
In April 2017, the total number of registered cars in China reached 200 million units. At the same time, the number of owners of registered vehicles, including motorcycles, increased to 364 million people.
The growing number of cars is a concern for the Chinese authorities as the environmental situation in the country worsens. In addition to toxic substances, the environment is polluted by noise due to the constant humming of cars. Beijing is considered the sixth noisiest city in the world.
According to the World Health Organization, in 2013, more than 260 thousand cases of road accidents were registered in China, which makes it one of the most dangerous countries in the world for drivers.[5]
Notes
- ↑ [1]China's vehicle software market exceeds 65 bln yuan: report
- ↑ China Shames Drivers Who Can’t Park Right With An Embarrassing Suction Cup
- ↑ Shanghai opens 1st self-driving expressways
- ↑ A Chip in the Windshield: China’s Surveillance State Will Soon Track Cars
- ↑ Chinese cities wanting peace and quiet are using acoustic cameras to catch honking drivers
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