Brian this is the worst bit of product placement I've ever seen in my life
behind you. But let's just start off with how you
actually sell this car. First of all not in China but globally
because no Chinese TV maker or indeed car maker generally speaking has been
successful in any major economy outside of China.
Well I think first of all you know we have to be successful in China first.
You know as a leading smart TV maker we actually have been producing exciting
cool and technologically advanced products.
And the Chinese customer enjoys. So we had to build that as a foundation
and was the product and the technology. We believe we offer something very
attractive to the global customers as well.
So that's why we started the effort internationally in Europe first.
I was there for northern countries and was the lineup that we can introduce in
the next year or two. We believe we have the ability to start
a footprint there but I think there is patience required to develop our auto
business outside of China. And you know the
I think that the prospect of Chinese products you know launching these
markets actually quite attractive because they do actually go to Europe
right now. You can see actually the Chinese maybe
products actually compares very favorably to what's offered in those
markets. So we have the confidence that we can
produce something very competitive there.
You measure our patience. You kind of tell us about the G9 and how
it actually fits into your exports globally now.
Well you know first floor is positioned as our premium full sized SUV.
That was that. I would say the the most advanced
technology. You see a number of areas.
First of all you will have the smartest architecture for intelligent driving
there what we call the full scenario ADAS function utilizing our hardware and
also the leading software stack. So secondly is that the car is one of
the fastest charging E.D. in the market today was it's a hundred
volt high voltage platform coupled with a fast charging sort of guns and then
also the car cell. You can see that boasts of a number of
very attractive interior exterior sort of features.
So we think that it will be a very popular product in country for example
in Europe that appreciates large SUV user hats off off road capabilities
as well as the premium range that actually can be
enjoyed in those countries. Brian David here yeah.
Can you talk a little bit more about that.
This advanced driver assistance systems. So I mean put that to us in simple
English. What can this car do.
Self driving wise it wasn't available in your previous models as well.
And what's also available in the market. Compare that to.
Right. So first of all you know we actually
announced the official launch of our city A.P.
capability you know existing product early this week.
That capability is a major step ahead in the sort of what we call the high degree
ADAS function that allows you to actually navigating busy streets in
urban driving in China for example in Guangzhou using the cards sort of
architecture. And that is you know that you know sort
of forward compared to last year when we
launched similar capabilities only focused on highways scenarios.
So was this city NCP launched in our existing product.
We actually completed what we call the fourth scenario sort of setup.
So we had the highway A.P. capability the city and shipping
capability and the valid parking assist. So combined those two together the G
nine. Next year we hope to deliver what we
call the full scenario in GP the X NDP. I'm trying to maybe just talk us through
what your strategy is in Europe right now.
I mean you're forced into more countries.
What is the strategy as you continue on. And what sort of assets of the vehicles
do you think can actually help generate decent sales there.
Well first of all I think we started in four countries in Europe today Norway
Denmark Sweden and the Netherlands. And we are intending to launch the for
example the G9 as well as the international version of RTS to these
markets. I think these are what we call the
premium products we think can establish our brand as well as our technological
sort of positions in this markets. But you know it was you know sort of the
the the presence. We also hope to expand our coverage was
our own stores as well as our partners and agent stores to cover more areas.
We actually have plans also to roll out a smaller format as was lower priced
French products. Sure.
To cover the wider European continent. So these are sort of methodical plans
that we have in place to tackle this market.
Brian does this is going to be you know enabling non-toxic vehicles to use those
super charging network. How does that affect you.
Well first of all the super charging super fast charging capability of our
vehicle that can be used in both our own proprietary charging stations as well as
public cost third party charging stations.
Obviously our proprietary charging station will have the fastest charging
capability because we use 480 kilowatt guns that can maximize the charging
speed. But even was the G9 the 800 bolt CAC the
platform charging in a third party charge station still will be much faster
than what you know the comparable product can be charged today.
So this such capability can be used across
charging stations and charging platforms.
Brian just to China here as a final question you know relative to where your
initial expectations were at the start of the year in terms of deliveries in
China where are you right now relative to that.
And because it is slowed down its price for next year.
Are you also having to adjust your targets for 2023.
Well I think first of all this year we have faced a number of challenges as a
company as also as industry and economy. So we are constantly adjusting our
goals. But I think with the launch of G9 we're
very excited about the prospect of generating growth that we have seen in
the past year or two. I think that this market requires new
product and technology to push forward beyond the brand as well as sales
momentum. And we are very hopeful G9 will start
our super product cycle because with G9 we start launching new products in the
next few quarters are the least one product for quarter and that is going to
be the sort of big catalyst for our new growth.