[News] Volkswagen | the first to close the German factory, cancel the promise of no layoffs, the situation is tense!   Under the pressure of fierce competition from China's electric vehicle industry, the world's number two automaker - Volkswagen Group is now facing unprecedented challenges.   The Volkswagen Group is evaluating the possible closure of its plants in Germany. The chief financial officer of the Volkswagen Group, Arnaud Antelitz, is scheduled to address employees at a works council meeting on the morning of September 4, along with the CEO of the Volkswagen brand, Thomas Schaefer.       Although shares in the Volkswagen Group rose on the news, rising 1.2 percent, they have lost nearly a third of their value over the past five years, making them the worst performer among major European automakers.   Earlier, analysts had expected that Volkswagen Group might consider closing its plants in Osnabruck, Lower Saxony, and Dresden, Saxony. It is worth noting that Lower Saxony is also one of the important shareholders of the Volkswagen Group.   "The circumstances are too serious to address the challenges we face with simple cost-cutting measures," Mr Schaefer said bluntly in his public statement. He stressed that the Volkswagen Group is feeling increasing price competition pressure from Chinese rivals.   Antelitz also added that as the results of the first half of 2024 did not meet the company's expectations, the group will need to take more stringent cost-cutting measures in the second half of the year in order to meet its annual targets. The Volkswagen brand will be the first to implement cost cuts, aiming to save up to 10 billion euros, or about 78.6 billion yuan, by 2026.   In addition, while considering plant closures, the Volkswagen Group may have to abandon its 30-year no-layoff policy.   The looming crisis PART 1 The announcement of the possible domestic plant closures comes a month after Volkswagen Group released a poor financial report for the first half of 2024. Although the company officially described it as a "stable performance in a difficult environment", it actually hid a lot of crises.   In the first half of 2024, the Volkswagen Group's revenue reached 158.8 billion euros, equivalent to about 1.25 trillion yuan, an increase of 1.6% compared with the same period last year. However, its operating profit was only 10.05 billion euros, or about 79.14 billion yuan, down 11.4 percent from the same period last year. The operating margin also fell by 1 percentage point from 7.3 per cent to 6.3 per cent. Pretax profit was 10.16 billion euros, or about 80 billion yuan, down 14.6 percent from a year earlier; Free cash flow from the automotive business was 4.99 billion euros, or about 39.28 billion yuan.       The decrease in vehicle sales is the main reason for the decline in the results of the Volkswagen Group in the first half of 2024: in the first half of the year, th...

HARTING charging cable (EV)   HARTING charging cables (EV) for Volkswagen's electric vehicles contributed to driver Rainer Zietlow's latest record. Zietlow, the multiple Guinness World Record holder, reached Deadhorse on April 2, 2023, at the far end of the Dalton Highway System on Alaska's North Coast, in a Volkswagen ID.4 AWD EV. No electric vehicle had reached this point earlier this year. Zietlow's drive began on March 28, 2023 in Homer, Alaska and ended on May 6, 2023 in Key West, Florida, the southernmost tip of the U.S.A highway system. During 8,500 miles of driving, Zietlow charged the ID.4 at charging stations and covered the distance without a service vehicle.   HARTING has a long history with Volkswagen and Zietlow. Volkswagen supported Zietlow with two previous record-breaking drives by awarding HARTING the "Supplier of the Year, Mobility 2020". The project can be tracked with pictures and videos and live tracker www.vwid4-alaskatour.com. As with all of his previous projects, Rainer Zietlow supports the charity SOS Children's Villages.   TTI Inc. was rated as   Best Distribution Partner of 2022 TTI Inc. announces that it has been named Distribution Partner of the Year by Smiths Interconnect for 2022 and has won the US Distributor of the Year award, thanks to a special focus on the space and defense market segments and support management of best-in-class inventory . On behalf of TTI, Lew LaFornara, TTI's Senior Vice President of Marketing and Administration, thanked the entire Smiths team. “It is very gratifying to be selected again as US Distributor of the Year, and we would like to thank Smiths Interconnect for this honor. I especially want to thank and recognize the continued support we have received from so many people at Smiths and the Americas representatives, which we all share A key component of success."   Mouser has won Harwin2022 Global Performance Award Mouser has been honored with Harwin's 2022 Global Performance Award for its growing Harwin customer base and impressive sales growth figures. In addition to this, the company conducts marketing activities, including extensive publicity through electronic newsletters and online advertising, and the creation of informative technical and multimedia content. Other key factors are the speed of new product introductions (NPI) and major commitments to inventory. The latest product lines are quickly added to the Mouser inventory and then widely promoted to relevant target audiences.   Senior Vice President of Products at Mouser: Jeff Newell; Vice President of Sales - Harwin: Jessica Knight; Director of Supplier Management at Mouser: Kristina Cole; Supplier Manager: Jeri Hull; Director of Distribution: Anthony Bruggeman.     Weidmüller expands its existing sales, development and production center in USA   The Weidmüller Group will invest $16.4 million to expand its existing operation in Richmond, Virginia. Th...

Electric vehicle (EV) charging connectors are both standardized and constantly changing. On the one hand, the charging connector of electric vehicles is standardized according to today's technical limitations. There are standards in major regional markets, including North America, Japan, the European Union and China. However, current charging technology is limited by power.   The standard of electric vehicle charging connector has been narrowed. For AC charging, North America and Japan use SAE J1772 type 1 connector, Europe uses IEC 62196 type 2 (also known as mennekes) connector, and China uses a version of GB/T connector. In North America and Europe, DC charging adopts a variant of combined charging system (CCS). Chademo is a Japanese standard, and gb/t is adopted in China. In addition, there are regional differences in the level of available power related to the difference in supply voltage.     Every electric vehicle sold in North America can use a charging station with J1772 connector. Except Tesla, all electric vehicles use J1772 for level 1 (120V) and level 2 (240V) charging. Tesla owners will receive an adapter cable to connect their electric vehicle to a charging station with a J1772 connector.   Since there is no 120V service in homes in Europe, level 1 charging is not used. Instead of J1772, IEC 62196 type 2 connector is used for Level 2 AC charging. Tesla is once again the exception, and most of its electric vehicles use proprietary connectors. However, a few Tesla models use IEC 62196 type 2 connectors. In Europe and North America, Tesla's class 1 and class 2 chargers use proprietary connectors, and electric vehicles from other manufacturers require adapters. Current DC fast charger uses 480 V main power supply for faster charging. With the advent of higher power and faster charging technology, this input voltage level is expected to rise in the future. In North America, CCS type 1 connector "combines" J1772 connector and adds two high-speed charging pins below. In Europe, CCS combines IEC 62196 type 2 with two high-speed charging pins, which is called CCS type 2.   CHARIN (charging interface initiative) is headquartered in Germany, and its goal is to establish CCS as the global standard for EV DC fast charging. CHARIN has more than 250 members and is working to develop new technologies and expand its scope to MW charging systems for large vehicles such as trucks, electric ferries, boats and aircraft.     Chademo, developed by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), is used for EV DC fast charging all over Japan. Compared with CCS system, chademo connector does not share some connectors with J1772 inlet. Since chademo is strictly used for DC fast charging, electric vehicles using this connector also include a separate J1772 inlet for AC level 1 and level 2 charging, which requires a larger charging port area to accommodate two separate charging inlets.     Tesla is an exception to the above ...

The EU has always been committed to green and environmental protection, such as the pursuit of electronic products interface unity, and the big red USB-C is obviously the best choice at present, so the EU decided to pass a decree so that all electronic products must use USB-C interface, the deadline is 2023, and by 2024, the EU finally announced the law into effect. All electronic products sold in the EU must use the USB-C interface. The European Commission said on social media that through unremitting efforts, the USB-C interface will become the standard of electronic products in 2024, which we believe means better charging standards, cable waste will be greatly reduced, and everyone will be more convenient to find a charger. The EU says that in the future, all USB-C chargers should be able to charge electronic devices with USB-C ports without compatibility issues. In this EU list, including mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, headphones, game consoles, e-books, keyboards, mice, mobile GPS and other devices must use USB-C interface, and by 2026, all laptops must use USB-C interface. The EU's move to unify all its interfaces is a huge step forward. After all, in the past due to the immaturity of technology, there were dozens of interfaces on the market, and later with the rise of USB, basically Micro-USB, Apple lighting and Type-C have become the three major universal interfaces, and Micro-USB is almost eliminated, the remaining biggest resistance is Apple lighting interface. For the EU move, Apple expressed strong opposition, saying that the unified interface will only erase personality. Of course, the huge market of the European Union has also made Apple have to lower its head and adopt the Type-C interface in the iPhone 15 Pro, and with the landing of this bill, we can casually find a Type-C line in the future to achieve charging and data transmission of digital products.   Aichie Tech is specialized in the production and processing of various types of wire harnesses, such as: Type-C wire, new energy wire harnesses, robot wire harnesses, industrial equipment wire harnesses, injection molding wire harnesses, etc. The factory introduced automation equipment, and passed the ISO9001, ISO13485,IATF16949 and other treatment system certification; Aichie for UL, CUL listed companies, to provide customer product protection, reliable quality and competitive prices, welcome to consult! sales03@aichie.com

On April 20, Tesla released the first quarter of the 2023 financial report. According to the financial report, Tesla's revenue in the first quarter was about $ 23.33 billion dollars, an increase of 24%year on year; net profit was about $2.513 billion dollars, and the operating profit margin was 11.4%. In addition, Tesla operating cash flow was $2.5 billion dollars, and the free cash flow in the first quarter was $ 400 million.       Since 2023, Tesla has opened a price reduction strategy worldwide, and even in certain areas, the price reduction has been reduced more than once. But it is terrible that although Tesla's profit margin fell more than 10%, it was still considerable: in the first quarter, it still maintained an 11.4% level, which was higher than many car companies.   According to Tesla, although the price of some models in different regions in the first quarter, the decline in operating profit margins is still controllable. At the same time, Tesla also expects vehicle costs to continue to decrease.     At present, Cybertruck is producing the Alpha version. When Cybertruck successfully begins to deliver and complete production capacity climbing, it is estimated that Tesla's revenue and profits will continue to increase. Perhaps this is the biggest impact of large -scale production on the manufacturing industry.     Tesla's price adjustment in the United States, price increase and price reduction coexist On April 20, the official website of Tesla showed that the price of Model Y long battery life and the high -performance version was reduced by $3,000 US dollars, and the price of the Model 3 rear -wheel drive version was reduced by $2,000 dollars.       At the same time, the price of Tesla Model S and Model X was raised by $ 2,500 in the United States. At present, Model S is priced at $ 87,490, Model S Plaid is priced at $ 107,490; Model X is priced at $ 97,490, Model X Plaid is priced at $ 107,490.   This kind of rising and falling situation perfectly explains the principles of Tesla's "cost -based pricing". Model 3 and Model Y are already the sixth time to reduce prices in the United States. Musk also hinted that although Tesla's price reduction measures at the beginning of this year have affected profit margins (profit margins have fallen by 10%and the market value evaporates $50 billion), Tesla will continue to reduce prices to stimulate demand. It is conceivable that Tesla's continuous price cuts will continue to impact the new energy market in the USA.   Aichie provides high -quality busbar low -voltage auto wiring harness and high voltage ev cable assembly around the world. It has introduced new production equipment, which greatly improves the quality and efficiency of production. Customers are widely distributed in Europe and North America. Production employees and experienced engineering teams and sales teams serve our customers; please contact us now! We will provi...

With the end of the Chinese Spring Festival holiday, all walks of life have been resumed. February 6th is the second working week after the resumption of work in Aichie Technology Electronics Co., Ltd. After the holidays, the workers arrived one after another. The company's development and product production are inseparable from employees. After the holidays, the workers have arrived one after another. In the first working week, our company summarized the advantages and shortcomings of work in 2022, and will be improved in 2023. In terms of producing wire harness, cable assembly, wires and cables, improve production efficiency, strengthen quality management, and improve the timely completion rate of orders to makesure that customers' orders can be completed on schedule.   In serving customers, our sales and operation teams will continue to learn more knowledge of new energy vehicle cable assemblies, car wiring harness, various wires, cables and connectors. We will become the best connection solution provider than 2022. More professional service customers solve problems for customers.   Aichie Tech has officially resumed work, and can be quoted and produced normally. If you have wire wiring harness, wires and cables, connectors, please feel free contact us!   AICHIE Tech Electronics Co.,Ltd Email: sales03@aichie.com Mobile/Whatsapp/WeChat: (86)18027502150 Skype: live:.cid.8643b3df38ff8b5  

Cables: all cables consist of three types of wires. The first is to carry current, the second is to make the circuit complete, and the third is the grounding wire. These wires have different specification numbers, sizes and codes. The codes marked on them tell us their insulation and electrical capabilities. If the cable you use is marked "G", use a ground wire. One common example of this type of cable is the use 12 – 3/g cable. Cables usually have nm-b, BX and uf-b sheaths. They can be roughly divided into two types according to their conductors. The first is a two core cable, and the second is a three core cableNowadays, like everything else, wires and cables can also be purchased online. Many suppliers on the Internet are committed to providing all types of wires and electrical equipment online at a cost-effective price.

IATF (International Automotive Task Force) is a specialized organization established in 1996 by the world's major auto manufacturers and associations.   In order to harmonize the international automotive quality system specifications, a specialized agency was established in 1996 by the world's major automobile manufacturers and associations, called the International Automotive Task Force (IATF). IATF members include the International Organization for Standardization Quality Management and Quality Assurance Technical Committee (ISO/TC176), the Italian Automobile Industry Association (ANFIA), the French Automobile Manufacturers Committee (CCFA) and the Automobile Equipment Industry Federation (FIEV), the German Automobile Industry Association (VDA), car manufacturers such as BMW, Chrysler, Fiat, Ford, General Motors, Renault and Volkswagen, among others.

On December 24, Xiaomi Auto's Weibo account and video number were launched one after another. Yesterday evening, Lei Jun, as the founder of Xiaomi, also posted @mi car on his personal micro blog. This series of operations has also made many industry insiders speculate that millet cars will have major news.   On December 26, Xiaomi's official microblog and Lei Jun's microblog simultaneously issued a statement saying: A technical conference will be held at 2 PM on December 28. At the same time, it is also accompanied by a publicity picture on the theme of "crossing". From the picture, it can be seen that the background of the publicity picture is the overhead perspective view of the millet car, and the design details of the front suspension, balance bar, anti-tilt bar, front spare car, and front motor can be clearly seen in the picture. For the hidden intelligence of this propaganda picture, it has also attracted many netizens' speculation, and some netizens have marked out the details of the poster.   Some automotive media comments said: this configuration of the Xiaomi car can not be sold at a very low price. Some digital bloggers also participated in the comments that the cabin floor beam arrangement, the battery should use CTP or CTB technology, from the tire texture, like Michelin PSEV, the front suspension front double fork arm, the rear probability is five linkages, and from the organ accelerator pedal point of view, the positioning is more sports. In this way, the cost of SU7 is indeed higher.   For the arrival of Xiaomi cars, Lei Jun said in his personal microblog today that it has been 1000 days since Xiaomi's official propaganda car was made, and many people asked "how is Xiaomi making cars so slow", and friends said, "I heard that electric cars are easy to make, and small companies with two or three hundred people can make cars in less than two years." In response to the slow building of Xiaomi cars, Lei Jun responded in the article: Today's automobile industry, it is not difficult to save a car. Just get a car, reverse engineer it, change the look, and we'll be done in no time. But with 200 new cars released every year on the market today, does Xiaomi need to save another one? Therefore, when the Xiaomi car team was just formed, we had a meeting for three days and three nights, and only discussed a simple question: to join Xiaomi, what kind of car do you want to build? Later, all the staff agreed: there is no shortcut to building a car. Adhere to the forward development, starting from the underlying core technology, ten times investment, build a good car! These technologies will also be fully displayed to everyone at the Xiaomi Car technology conference on December 28. Regarding the content of the Xiaomi automobile technology conference on December 28, Lei Jun also revealed on Weibo that this time, only the technology is issued, not the product.   It is worth noting that since Lei Jun announced the construction of c...

With the rapid development of new energy automobile industry, new energy wiring harnesses get development opportunities. The difference between a high-voltage wire harness and a low-voltage wire harness is that the high-voltage terminal tends to generate heat due to the high current passing through the terminal. As a result, the mechanical strength of the terminal and the insulation performance of the wire harness are decreased, and the oxidation of the conductor further aggravates the heating.   High voltage terminal crimping needs to consider both the reliability of the crimp and the low temperature rise of the crimp. High voltage terminals are commonly crimped Crimping, resistance welding, high frequency welding Crimping uses crimping equipment and dies to join wires and terminals together through a crimping process. High frequency welding is the use of high frequency welding machine to weld wire and terminal together. Resistance welding is the use of special resistance welding equipment to connect the wire and terminal together. Advantage Simple operation, convenient maintenance, low manufacturing cost, high operating efficiency, suitable for mass production. Shortcomings The wiring harnesses and terminals that require high current pass rate and low resistance after the connectors are connected cannot be met. Figure 1 shows the common crimping modes of large square high voltage terminals, which are hexagonal closed terminals. The advantages of ordinary crimping are obvious, but how to make ordinary crimping develop advantages and avoid disadvantages, as far as possible to reduce the resistance is particularly important. Reducing resistance means reducing heat, reducing product temperature rise, making product life and quality better.   Hazard of terminal heating After the terminal is heated, it is easy to oxidize itself and the contact surface of the conductor of the wire, generating oxide film, so that the contact resistance increases, and the increasing speed increases exponentially with the increase of temperature, further increasing the terminal temperature rise speed, and serious fire will be caused. At the same time, the elastic element of the contact structure will be annealed, the contact pressure will be reduced, and the contact resistance will be increased further. In addition, the heating will make the wire insulation layer connected to the terminal aging brittle, resulting in a decline in insulation performance, there is the risk of leakage overheating caused by fire.   As shown in Figure 2, the high voltage wiring harness has three heat sources. Terminal three heat source : Conductor Conductor: The conductor itself has a resistance. The smaller the cross-sectional area, the higher the resistance. Resistance will cause heating. Terminal compaction: insufficient compression ratio will make the conductor loose, resulting in large resistance, easy to heat. Excessive crimping is easy to cause small cross-sectional area,...