Affected by the fluctuation of the price of raw materials upstream of the battery, domestic new energy vehicle companies are facing greater cost upward pressure, and a number of domestic car companies have recently chosen to collectively increase prices.
At present, Xiaopeng, Tesla, BYD, Zero Run, Geometry, Great Wall, Chery and other new energy vehicle companies have announced price increases ranging from thousands to tens of thousands of yuan.
In the camp of new car-making forces, Weilai, Ideal and Lantu Automobile have temporarily become representative car companies in the camp of no price increase.
However, recently, there are many new energy vehicle sales release of the circle of friends show that Lantu electric vehicles directly increased prices by 20,000-30,000 yuan, and the official notice was not even released.
In response to this news, Lantu Automobile officially said, "Thank you for your concern, Lantu has not yet increased the price, tangled ...".
From the official response of Lantu Automobile, it can be seen that in the current environment of new energy vehicles gathering and increasing prices, Lantu Automobile is also facing the pressure of price increases, and the official is still struggling with whether to increase prices.
It is reported that the reasons for the price increase of car companies are pointed to the high cost of raw materials and inflationary pressures, and in terms of raw materials, the upstream costs led by nickel and lithium carbonate are still continuing to pile up. Nickel prices are still in a high position; the highest factory price of battery-grade lithium carbonate has reached 530,000 yuan / ton, and the average market price has also exceeded the mark of 500,000 yuan / ton.
Not only the car with large battery, today's Maverick electric voice price increase, the battery installed capacity of only 1, 2kWh electric bicycle, also affected by the battery price increase. According to the current situation, the price increase of Lantu Automobile may also be a high probability event.
