Hi, everyone, it’s Thursday, May 30th, 2024. Today’s important scientific and technological information includes:
1. Huawei HarmonyOS Zhixing’s first executive-class luxury flagship car, enjoying the official announcement of S9 on May 31st.
The company officially announced that "HarmonyOS Zhixing’s first executive luxury flagship car" will debut on May 31st, when there will be a brand-new version of M7 Max. > > view details
2. the State Council: Gradually cancel the purchase restrictions of new energy vehicles in various places.
The State Council issued the Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction for 2024-2025, which mentioned that it is necessary to speed up the elimination of old motor vehicles and improve the access standards for energy consumption limits of operating vehicles. Gradually cancel the restrictions on the purchase of new energy vehicles in various places. Implement support policies such as facilitating the passage of new energy vehicles. Promote the electrification of vehicles in the public domain, promote medium and heavy trucks with new energy in an orderly manner, and develop a zero-emission freight fleet. We will promote the scrapping and renewal of old transport ships and promote the pilot project of electrification transformation of coastal inland rivers. By the end of 2025, the intensity of carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector will be reduced by 5% compared with 2020. > > view details
3. JD.COM’s Jingxi brand upgrade: launched a full hosting model and renamed it "Jingxi Self-operated".
Jingxi announced that Jingxi brand ushered in a comprehensive upgrade, launched a full hosting model, and changed its name to "Jingxi self-operated". Search for "Jingxi Self-operated Store" in JD.COM App, and you can jump to the Jingxi Self-operated Store page. Most of the commodity prices on the page are below 10 yuan, which is similar to Taobao’s "Amoy Factory". > > view details
4. Starting from 59,900 yuan, 2024 Chery Arrizo 5 Huimin version cars will be launched.
The 2024 Chery Arrizo 5 car was launched in October last year, and the market guidance price range was 59,900 yuan-75,900 yuan. After more than half a year, Chery announced the new 2024 Arrizo 5 Huimin Edition. The pricing changes are as follows:
- 1.5L manual urban type is 59,900 yuan, and Huimin version cancels this configuration.
- 1.5L manual fashion model is 65,900 yuan, and Huimin version is reduced to 59,900 yuan, with a price reduction of 6,000 yuan.
- 1.5L CVT fashion model is 75,900 yuan, Huimin version is reduced to 69,900 yuan, and the price is reduced by 6,000 yuan > > See details.
5. Audi was exposed that the new car had just been driven for seven months, and the roadside spontaneously burned down. The 4S shop said that it could only pay according to three guarantees.
According to The Paper, Ms. Chen from Hubei recently reported that in August 2023, she bought an Audi A6L car in Wuhan Hengxin Handi Automobile Sales & Service Co., Ltd. On March 3 this year, only seven months after picking up the car, Ms. Chen’s new car spontaneously ignited and burned when she stopped at the roadside.
Entrusted by Wuhan Branch of Taiping Property Insurance Co., Ltd., the relevant technical center investigated the vehicle condition.It is identified as spontaneous combustion caused by internal electrical failure of the automobile and quality defects of the accessories themselves.Therefore, the insurance company refused to pay compensation and thought that the manufacturer should bear the responsibility for the quality problems.
After the accident, Ms. Chen went to the 4S shop several times to negotiate with the after-sales manager.The other party refused to pay the top model of the original car (2024 A6L 55 four-wheel drive flagship) and compensate the related mental loss expenses..
Mr. Jin, after-sales manager of Wuhan Hengxin Handi 4S store, said that the spontaneous combustion of related vehicles was a case, which was the first accident in his own 4S store in the past five or six years, so it was handled according to a single case.According to the three-guarantee policy, the car can be returned or changed.. > > view details
6. Chery X Hua started large-scale delivery for the first car intelligence S7, and Yin Tongyue, chairman of Chery, delivered the car personally.
As the first car that Chery cooperated with Huawei, Zhijie S7 started large-scale delivery last month. On the afternoon of May 25th, Zhijie Automobile held a centralized delivery ceremony in Wuhu. Yin Tongyue, Party Secretary and Chairman of Chery Group, visited the site personally.And personally deliver the new car to the owner.. > > view details
7. China consumer v. Apple’s antitrust case was pronounced in the first instance: Apple has a dominant market position, but it has not abused it.
According to the First Financial Report, on May 29th, the Shanghai Intellectual Property Court announced the first-instance judgment of China’s first case of consumers suing Apple for monopoly. The court found that Apple had a dominant position in the China software market, but it did not abuse this position, and dismissed the plaintiff Kim’s claim.
IT house search learned that in early 2021, when Shanghai user Jin bought an App in Apple’s mobile app store, he found that he could only choose Apple Pay, the only payment method, and could not choose common mobile payment methods such as WeChat payment and Alipay. At the same time, the user found that because the developer needs to pay a commission of 30% of the transaction amount to Apple (that is, "Apple tax"), the purchase price of consumers in the Apple App Store is higher than that in the Android App Store for the same application. > > view details
8. The new functions of GPT-4o, such as custom GPT, are now open to all ChatGPT users free of charge.
ChatGPT free users can now try to customize GPT models, analysis charts and other new GPT-4o functions. Of course, when OpenAI launched GPT-4o, it promised that it would be open to all users free of charge, and the advantage of paying users lies in "having five times the capacity limit of free users". > > view details
9. The performance of mobile phones has reached a new level: Arm released Cortex-X925 CPU and Immortalis G925 GPU.
Chip design company Arm5 released the next generation CPU and GPU designs for flagship smartphones on May 29th: Cortex-X925 CPU and Immortalis G925 GPU. These two chips are the successors of Cortex-X4 and Immortalis G720 currently used in MediaTek Tianji 9300 processor.
IT House noticed that Arm changed the naming of Cortex-X CPU series to highlight its significant performance improvement. The company claims that the single-core performance of X925 is 36% higher than that of X4 (based on Geekbench test). Thanks to the private L2 cache of up to 3MB, Arm said that the performance of the X925′ s AI workload (measured by "time to token") has improved by 41%. > > view details
10. In the first quarter, Didi’s total revenue was 49.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.9%, and the average daily travel volume in China was 32.5 million.
Didi released its first quarter financial report as of the end of March on May 29th. In the first quarter of 2024, Didi’s total revenue was 49.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.9%; The net loss in the first quarter was 1.35 billion yuan. In the first quarter, the total transaction volume (GTV) of core platforms reached 92.2 billion yuan, up 26.9% year-on-year. > > view details
11. Geely Automobile: The highest thermal efficiency of Raytheon engine is 46.1%, and the highest fact in the world has the final say.
On the evening of May 28th, the fifth-generation DM hybrid was released, and the official said that it had achieved three "best in the world", one of which was the highest engine thermal efficiency of 46.06%. However, on the morning of May 29th, Xu Dongwei, general manager of brand user communication center of Geely Automobile Group and deputy general manager of Geely Automobile Sales Company, issued a certificate of certification of China Automobile Center, saying: "In 2023, Geely Raytheon engine has been certified by China Automobile Center with the highest thermal efficiency of 46.1%! The highest facts in the world have the final say! " After that, the official account of Geely Automobile forwarded this Weibo, saying that "the highest facts in the world have the final say". > > view details
Let’s stop here for today. Technology last night and this morning, let’s see you tomorrow.