Since 2021, when Xiaomi announced the construction of the car, the company has been tight-lipped about the Xiaomi car's information, which has lifted the appetite of the outside world.。

The market has also been curious, in the frequent price war, the car market share has been eaten up today, by making mobile phones to start Xiaomi, what to rely on to stand out in the highly competitive car market.？

Now, millet patent information may be able to give us the answer。

             

Xiaomi car has applied for wireless charging patent

            

On September 19, according to the patent announcement issued by the State Intellectual Property Office of China, the "wireless charging method, system and storage medium" applied by Xiaomi Automotive Technology Co., Ltd. has been authorized, and the authorization announcement number is CN114785002B。

According to the information in the announcement, the patent relates to a wireless charging method, system and storage medium, and the processes involved mainly include:

● The charging device determines the target parking space of the vehicle to be charged when receiving the charging request message sent by the vehicle to be charged;

● determining the target induction coil corresponding to the target parking space from the coil array;

● Positioning the electric energy receiving coil arranged on the vehicle to be charged through the target induction coil to obtain the target position of the electric energy receiving coil;

● Take any idle power transmitting coil located in the preset place as the target power transmitting coil, and move the target power transmitting coil to the target position, so as to wirelessly charge the vehicle to be charged through the target power transmitting coil and the power receiving coil, thus avoiding The driver needs to constantly adjust the parking position of the vehicle to be charged to achieve the precise alignment of the target power transmitting coil and the power receiving coil, which can reduce the driver's parking operation complexity and improve the vehicle。

Xiaomi seems to be playing with something very new-as a "novice" in the car-making industry, it has begun to explore ways to use wireless charging to open up a new pattern of charging new energy vehicles-this is the way of thinking of mobile phone charging。As long as the owner of Xiaomi drives the car into the charging coil, the vehicle will automatically start wireless charging, which is very convenient, very sci-fi, and very fashionable。

It is understood that Xiaomi has submitted the patent as early as June 15, 2022, which shows that before this, Xiaomi has developed the technology before it can be applied for.。However, the landing of the patent is not yet known。

According to Xiaomi's schedule, Xiaomi cars will achieve mass production in the first half of 2024。Xiaomi Group President Lu Weibing said in the second quarter of this year's earnings call, maintaining the target unchanged。

             

Xiaomi or will open up the blue ocean through wireless charging technology

            

Once Xiaomi cars successfully apply wireless charging technology, there are many benefits for the company.。

The first is that Xiaomi can jump off the track of charging stations and charging piles and other equipment to open up a new road that no one has yet taken, which is undoubtedly a powerful impact on the electric vehicle market.。The reason is that in the case of the need for charging stations and charging piles, there are many car companies at this stage that have already laid out this, such as Tesla, Weilai, Xiaopeng and other car companies have been laying out public charging equipment.。

In terms of charging stations, according to official website data, Tesla currently has more than 700 destination charging stations in mainland China.。For NIO, there are 1,378 destination charging stations, 1,740 overcharge stations and 1,827 exchange stations.。As of August 31, 2023, Xiaopeng has launched more than 2,200 free equity charging stations for car owners nationwide, as well as more than 1,000 self-operated charging stations (including 233 S4 ultra-fast charging stations), and the company recently revealed that 3,000 self-operated stations with ultra-fast charging capabilities will be built by 2025.。In addition, Ideal Cars expects to launch 300 super charging stations by the end of this year.。

In terms of charging piles, according to the China Charging Alliance, in August 2023, Weilai had 13,574 public charging piles, Tesla had 10,722, Xiaopeng had 4,617, and the scale has been rolled out.。

Once Xiaomi chooses not to lay out charging stations and charging piles, it can greatly reduce the cost of public charging equipment.。

Secondly, wireless charging can be used as a major "selling point" of the brand of Xiaomi cars, making Xiaomi cars more "special."。This can make up for the shortcomings of Xiaomi's "late start" and improve market competitiveness.。

For car owners, after the choice of wireless charging, the trouble of insufficient power and long queues of charging piles will be swept away, the convenience will be greatly improved, and the penetration rate of electric vehicles will even be further promoted.。

Although Xiaomi has not officially disclosed relevant information, it does not prevent everyone from looking forward to the final presentation of wireless charging of its electric vehicles.。Wireless charging in real life will be "there is a pile of wireless," or "there is no pile," or in the form of other scenes, are very exciting。

In addition to charging black technology, how Xiaomi cars will be priced is also a point of curiosity。

As the main cost-effective mobile phone manufacturer, the market's expectations for Xiaomi cars are the same as mobile phones-better configuration, lower price。However, for Xiaomi, car building is a brand new business chain, in which the company has been in the real money into a lot of money, where there is no reason to do business at a loss？

In the second quarter of this year, Xiaomi said that the cost of innovative businesses including smart electric vehicles reached 1.4 billion yuan, up from 1.1 billion yuan in the previous quarter.。A total of 2.6 billion yuan was invested in the first half of this year, compared with 3.1 billion yuan last year.。

In fact, Xiaomi's investment in car manufacturing is far more than that.。At Xiaomi's earnings call in the second quarter of this year, Lu Weibing introduced that Xiaomi's actual investment in car building is greater than reflected in the earnings report。The reason is that Xiaomi is holding the goal of entering the world's top five in the future to do the long-term layout of the car, do full stack self-research, but also built its own car factory, so the cash flow investment is higher than the disclosed figures.。

Earlier, some netizens broke the news that Xiaomi's new car is expected to be priced in the range of $100,000 to $200,000.。And in this price range, there are currently many models on the market, such as BYD's Yuan PLUS and Seal, GAC AION S / Y, Nezha S, Zero Run C01, etc.。

If you really choose this price range, it can be predicted that millet will face fierce competition, do not rule out the knife to see the blood。